2 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Create software architecture for real-time, fault-tolerant control of a 20kW+ spacecraft.
- Develop software applications controlling propulsion, guidance and attitude control, thermal, power, and communications subsystems.
- Design and implement state machines for robust spacecraft operation.
- Create and use tools that enable rapid deployment of quality code.
- Perform data analysis and anomaly investigation to identify and resolve software bugs.
- Support spacecraft subsystem integration and testing.
- Build and maintain infrastructure that improves reliability during software development and testing.
- Develop spacecraft software architecture during the first six months, implement larger systems and verify them with software- and hardware-in-the-loop simulators during the first year, and operate code on multiple spacecraft within the first two years.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, or another STEM discipline, or 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Development experience in Rust, C/C++, Python, VHDL, and SystemVerilog.
- Preferred experience with spacecraft flight software development.
- Preferred fluency with Linux systems programming and driver development.
- Preferred experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery systems.
- Preferred experience with hard real-time embedded systems, including bare-metal or RTOS environments.
- Preferred knowledge of electronics, computer architecture, and control systems.
- Preferred experience with state machines, software verification and testing, performance analysis, debugging, Extended Kalman Filters, fault-tolerant software, and hardware-in-the-loop or hardware-out-of-the-loop test systems.
- Applicants do not need to meet every preferred qualification, and non-traditional career paths are encouraged.
- Must be a U.S. person under ITAR or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export-control license.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Life insurance and paid parental leave.
- Equity in the company.
- Employment is subject to ITAR export-control eligibility requirements.
- Reasonable accommodation is available for applicants and interviewees.
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