2 days ago
Pasadena, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$123k - $139k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define software requirements and approaches for embedded flight software systems.
- Design, develop, debug, release, maintain, and document real-time embedded flight software.
- Develop application software for spacecraft functional domains such as command and data handling, guidance/navigation/control, and system fault protection.
- Conduct peer reviews, unit testing, integration testing with simulations and avionics hardware, formal testing, and defect resolution.
- Support software delivery to JPL flight mission customers and work with changing hardware interface specifications.
- Perform lab debugging and hardware-in-the-loop testing for spacecraft software and hardware interfaces.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline with at least 3 years of related experience, a related master’s degree with at least 1 year of experience, or a related PhD with 0 years of required experience.
- Advanced understanding and hands-on experience developing mission-critical real-time embedded software for aerospace applications.
- Experience with distributed computing, inter-process communication, device drivers, software/hardware interfaces, and communication buses and protocols.
- Experience with C++, C, Python, Linux, real-time or embedded operating systems, and static code analysis toolsets.
- Ability to develop reliable embedded real-time applications using formal and structured software lifecycle processes.
- Preferred qualifications include NASA or laboratory process knowledge, software product-line experience, systems engineering, NASA F Prime or cFS, and hardware-in-the-loop lab debugging with oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
- Strong verbal, written, presentation, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, wellbeing, and retirement plans.
- Paid time off, learning opportunities, rideshare, childcare, flexible schedule, parental leave, and other work-life benefits.
- Benefits-eligible employees receive benefits effective the first day of the month coincident with or immediately following their start date.
- Full-time position based in or associated with Pasadena, California.
About NASA JPL
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Pasadena, CA, managed by Caltech. It designs, builds, and operates robotic spacecraft and science instruments for NASA, and develops ground systems like the Deep Space Network; notable missions include the Mars rovers and the Voyager probes. Founded in 1936, JPL is publicly funded and focuses on planetary, Earth, and astrophysics research and flight operations.