Flight Software Engineer (Communications)
About The Position
Today, everything we send to space is constrained by what fits inside a rocket fairing. That's a fundamental bottleneck to building more capable spacecraft. Rendezvous Robotics is solving this problem with electromagnetic self-assembling tiles: modular spacecraft components that rendezvous, dock, and latch to assemble bigger and more powerful spacecraft than anything that can be folded to fit into a rocket. We're a small team based in Golden, Colorado, executing on a clear path from flight demonstration to our first operational systems. Our work spans hardware, software, and systems engineering. We are looking for the best people in the world who want to build the next generation of advanced spacecraft.
Requirements
- Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering, or equivalent experience
- [Senior level only] 5+ years of relevant experience
- Strong modern C++, plus working Python
- Networking fundamentals: IP, multicast, and routing, and the ability to debug a real network with tools like Wireshark
- Experience with a messaging or pub/sub middleware and with serialization or IDL-defined schemas
Nice To Haves
- DDS specifically (Fast-DDS, RTI Connext, or CycloneDDS) and QoS tuning
- Dynamic or mesh routing protocols (Babel, OLSR, OSPF) and IPv6
- Spacecraft communication standards such as CCSDS, or other telemetry and command protocols
- Time synchronization with NTP or PTP
- RF or software-defined-radio familiarity
- Networking on real-time or embedded Linux
Responsibilities
- The communication and networking stack across our distributed system
- Publish/subscribe middleware and the message schemas that ride on it, including reliability and quality-of-service settings
- IP networking across a changing topology: routing, addressing, and time synchronization
- The bridge between the onboard transport and ground systems, including standard spacecraft data-link formats
- The configuration and protocol side of the network fabric between vehicles, working with the hardware engineers who own the silicon
- The software side of the RF links, where the stack meets the radio
Benefits
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- short- and long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
- paid parental leave
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- long-term incentives in the form of stock options
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
