Flight Software Engineer
Barrios Technology, LLC3 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.
About Barrios Technology, LLC
Barrios Technology is a privately held, woman-owned aerospace engineering services firm that provides mission operations, systems engineering, software, and program integration to government and commercial spaceflight customers. A long-standing NASA prime contractor, it supports human spaceflight programs including the International Space Station, Orion, and the Space Launch System. Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Houston, the company focuses on work at Johnson and Marshall Space Flight Centers.