Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview

Senior / Principal Flight Software Engineer (Space Systems) — Remote Hands-on role building and testing embedded flight software for spacecraft. Work spans the full mission lifecycle, from early concept through on-orbit operations, in a highly collaborative environment with hardware, systems, and test teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and test embedded C/C++ flight software for satellite platforms
• Contribute across the lifecycle:
  • Requirements definition & trade studies
  • Software architecture & development
  • Integration with flight hardware
  • Verification, validation, and operations
• Support GNC-related software integration and system performance analysis
• Build internal tools to evaluate flight software performance and mission compatibility
• Execute testing across unit/module/system levels
• Use Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and FlatSat environments
• Develop test frameworks, tools, and ground support software
• Debug, validate, and resolve anomalies
• Support modeling & simulation and new mission concept proposals
• Evaluate impacts of new hardware, architectures, and mission profiles

Requirements

• 9–15+ years of software engineering experience (level dependent)
• Strong embedded software background in C/C++
• Experience with flight software, avionics, or aerospace systems
• Hands-on hardware/software integration and testing experience
• Exposure to one or more of:
  • GNC algorithms
  • RTOS (VxWorks, Integrity, etc.)
  • Device drivers / BSP / bring-up
  • HIL / simulation environments
  • Software verification & validation
• STEM Bachelor’s degree required

Nice-to-haves

• Master’s degree
• Operating as a high-level IC across multiple domains

Travel

• Up to ~20% domestic travel
• Occasional international collaboration