Flight Software Sustaining Engineer

MCSG Technologies • Greenbelt, MD

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About The Position

JOB SUMMARY: The NASA SES III contract provides IT services throughout all aspects of the engineering process of the entire space systems arena. MVS is in search of a Senior Flight Software Sustaining Engineer/Senior Embedded Systems Software Engineer to support the Software Engineering Services III (SES-III) contract at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland. PRIMARY DUTIES: The candidate will analyze requirements, design, implement, and test flight software changes according to a rigorous life-cycle development process. Primary responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following: Investigate spacecraft anomalies by analyzing operations commands, telemetry, memory dumps, FSW code and documentation. Attempt to reproduce anomalies on the test bed. Operate flight software test facilities and maintain a flight like configuration. Configuration management of flight and ground products. Continuous flight software sustaining engineering process improvement.

Requirements

• B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Math, or Physics.
• Senior spacecraft computer hardware engineer with at least 7 years of professional experience.
• Expert knowledge of the DSCOVR spacecraft flight software sustaining engineering (FSSE) test bed command and data handling (C&DH) engineering test unit (ETU) hardware architecture and interfaces with the external lab systems.
• Ability to accurately troubleshoot and diagnose issues with spacecraft computer hardware and ETUs.
• Ability to disassemble, reintegrate, and test ETU components.
• U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain National Agency Check Inquiry (NACI) personal background check.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with assembler code.
• Experience with real time operating systems VxWorks and RTEMS.
• Knowledgeable in software lifecycle models
• Experience with spacecraft operations
• Some experience developing Bash, Python or Perl applications.

Responsibilities

• Investigate spacecraft anomalies by analyzing operations commands, telemetry, memory dumps, FSW code and documentation.
• Attempt to reproduce anomalies on the test bed.
• Operate flight software test facilities and maintain a flight like configuration.
• Configuration management of flight and ground products.
• Continuous flight software sustaining engineering process improvement.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, parental leave, paid time off, holidays and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level