Flight Software Engineer
Barrios Technology, LLC2 months ago
Houston, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, development, integration, verification, deployment, and operational support of flight software.
- Provide technical leadership across the full software lifecycle and represent the software team at major milestones and program reviews.
- Define software architectures, interfaces, and design approaches with hardware engineers and subsystem teams.
- Lead software performance analysis, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, fault analysis, and risk mitigation for integrated hardware/software systems.
- Guide hardware-in-the-loop testing and debug embedded systems in laboratory and test environments using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and signal measurement tools.
- Implement and validate serial and packet-based communication protocols.
- Establish software development practices and use Git-based platforms.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams on system integration, testing, and troubleshooting.
- Lead Agile development-cycle planning, integration, and verification activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Technology, or Math from an accredited school.
- Ten years of related software development experience.
- Advanced proficiency in object-oriented programming, such as C and C++.
- Extensive experience with firmware, embedded software, and hardware/software integration.
- Extensive experience troubleshooting complex embedded systems in laboratory environments using electronic test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
- Experience implementing RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, TCP/IP, and UDP/IP communication protocols.
- Experience establishing software development practices and using Git-based platforms such as GitLab or GitHub.
- Experience leading technical efforts across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Preferred experience supporting human spaceflight or exploration programs, designing embedded software frameworks, developing device drivers, and using SpaceWire or similar space communication protocols.
- Preferred experience with software diagnostics and logging architectures, unit-testing frameworks such as xUnit, Windows, POSIX-based operating systems, Docker, Agile/Scrum, and CMMI frameworks.
- A master’s degree in a STEM field or equivalent advanced technical experience is preferred.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and successfully complete a U.S. government background investigation; eligibility for access to classified information may be required.
- Must be able to work in team environments, meet schedule and attendance requirements, occasionally adjust work hours, travel or commute to other installations, and perform the stated physical and facility-access duties.
Benefits
- Generally an office-based role that may involve inside or outside work at test facilities.
- May require commuting and travel to other installations.
- Requires a post-offer, pre-employment drug test.
- May involve sitting for extended periods and lifting or carrying up to 25 pounds.
- Requires successful completion of a U.S. government background investigation and may require classified-information access eligibility.