Description
Launch the next chapter of your career as a Spacecraft Flight Software Engineer in Los Angeles, CA, with an aerospace technology company developing custom spacecraft for missions supporting science and national security. This full-time, in-office opportunity combines hands-on software development, hardware integration, and flight testing with a team using advanced computational design to accelerate spacecraft development.
Qualifications and responsibilities for this Spacecraft Flight Software Engineer position include:
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, aerospace engineering, or a related field, with a minimum of 5 years of flight software experience emphasizing hands-on spacecraft code development and testing.
- Proficiency in Python, C/C++, embedded Linux, GitLab, and CI/CD workflows.
- Must possess or be willing and eligible to obtain a U.S. Department of Defense Top Secret security clearance.
- Build and maintain spacecraft flight software architecture, including mission-specific software components, telemetry collection, precise time-stamping, rate group scheduling, and bus communications.
- Develop drivers and logic for FPGA and GPIO interfaces; experience with I2C, CAN, UART, RS485, FPrime, or CFS is preferred.
- Design volatile and non-volatile memory solutions, boot behaviors, partition swapping logic, and fail-safe recovery modes; experience with embedded file systems and bootloader development is preferred.
- Develop automated testing pipelines and execute comprehensive test campaigns on flatsat testbeds and flight units; clean room and ESD protocol experience is preferred.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to integrate spacecraft subsystems, meet industry and regulatory requirements, document designs and test results, and provide technical guidance on flight software architecture.
Salary: $150,000 - $175,000 per year, commensurate with experience.
Benefits: This full-time, permanent, direct-hire position offers great benefits including 100% company-paid medical healthcare for employees, dental and vision care, a flexible vacation policy, sick days, a 401k matching option, pregnancy leave, family leave, holiday pay, and military service leave.
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