Flight Software Engineer
Red Canyon Engineering & Software
Apply to this jobThe Software Engineer's primary responsibility will be contributing to the development of customer satellite flight software. This engineer will be involved in the full lifecycle of flight software development, from requirements definition through operations. However, because we are a small team where each person takes on many roles, this engineer will also contribute to mission concept development, in-house modeling and simulation capabilities, and proposal writing. Being at the cutting edge of space technology, we need someone who is eager to learn, grow, and take on new and potentially unfamiliar challenges. There is no shortage of fascinating problems to solve.
The Senior Software Engineer will provide autonomous support of complex assignments, under the leadership of the Software Engineering Manager. The Senior Software Engineer will have project and subject matter responsibility and authority.
Flight Software - 75%
- Upgrade existing flight software for new missions.
- Contribute to the development of new satellite flight software for customer satellite platforms.
- Develop in-house tools to analyze flight software performance and assess its compatibility with new mission and conops.
- Develop and execute flight software tests at the unit, module, subsystem, and platform level.
- Work with manufacturing engineers to support installation onto the hardware-in-the-loop test environment and eventual flight hardware.
- Participate in anomaly resolution activities and patch existing flight software.
Systems Modeling - 15%
- Contribute to the development of systems- and mission-level modeling and simulation tools.
- Develop software models of payloads for ground testing.
- Support development of software model of satellite platform, particularly ensuring accurate representation of the flight software.
Additional Responsibilities - 10%
- Support working groups, both internal and with customers and/or vendors.
- Support proposal writing, new business
- Assess the software impacts of new hardware, conops, and missions.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.
- Preferred: Masters in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.
Experience:
- A minimum of 8 years with a bachelor's degree, or 6 years with a master's degree.
- Proven track-record of working with aerospace hardware and/or software systems, starting from conceptual designs and tradeoffs through detailed design, development, manufacture, integration, test, deployment, and operations.
Skills:
- Insatiable curiosity and a demonstrated ability to learn and work independently.
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Expertise in one or more of the following:
- Embedded software development.
- Device driver development and software/hardware interfaces.
- Real-time operating systems programming, debugging, and testing.
- Cybersecurity.
- GNC algorithms design, analysis, testing, and implementation.
- Functional validation of embedded software on hardware.
- Software safety assurance.
- Network topology and configuration.
- Simulators: numerical, emulator, and hardware in the loop.
- Software requirements and configuration management.
- US Citizenship is required
Compensation (from employer):
60–100 USD per-hour-wage
Summary
Develop spacecraft flight software, contribute to modeling, testing, and system development
Job title
Flight Software Engineer
Experience level
6+ years
Minimum experience
6+ years exp
Industry
space technology
Location requirements
On-site in United States, remote not specified
Salary
60–100 USD per-hour-wage
Management role
No
Required skills
Preferred skills
Specializations
Structured locations inferred from the posting.
United States