Software Engineer - Embedded & Flight Systems

Star Catcher•Jacksonville, FL

18h•Onsite

About The Position

Star Catcher Industries, Inc., located in Jacksonville, Florida, has an opportunity for a Software Engineer - Embedded & Flight Systems to support the development of space-to-space power beaming spacecraft and the Star Catcher Network, its orbital power grid. Star Catcher is building the first energy grid in space to power the orbital economy. Today’s spacecraft must generate all of their own power, which caps what they can do and how long they can operate. But what if they could “plug” into a grid, the way buildings do on Earth? Instead of cables and outlets, Star Catcher is building the technology to wirelessly beam energy to spacecraft’s existing solar panels when and where they need it. Be an early member of a team building an entirely new energy infrastructure at scale to power the next frontier.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
5+ years of professional experience developing embedded software for hardware-centric, real-time systems.
Strong proficiency in C and C++ for embedded systems, with working knowledge of memory management, concurrency, interrupt handling, and real-time scheduling, and an understanding of software/hardware co-design and software/computer architecture.
Experience developing software on ARM Cortex-M, ARM Cortex-A, RISC-V, or similar embedded processor architectures using RTOS (e.g., RTEMS, FreeRTOS, VxWorks, LynxOS, INTEGRITY, Zephyr) or bare-metal environments.
Comfortable with hardware-software integration, using tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG debuggers.
Experience using Git and collaborative software development workflows.
Working knowledge of Bash/Python for scripting, test automation, and tooling.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to space flight software or radiation-mitigation strategies in software.
Experience with Embedded Linux.
Experience collaborating with FPGA engineers or developing software for FPGA/SoC architectures.
Familiarity with safety-critical or mission-assurance coding standards (MISRA C/C++, NASA cFE/cFS).
DevSecOps and test automation experience using Python or similar languages.
Experience with embedded security and encryption.
Familiarity with release engineering, configuration/change management, and debug/trace analysis.
Familiarity with embedded communications interfaces and network debugging, including Ethernet where applicable.
Exposure to embedded processor architectures, peripheral integration, resource constraints, and hardware/software debugging.

Responsibilities

Implement and validate real-time embedded software for spacecraft payload and subsystem control under established architecture.
Work closely with cross-functional members of the engineering organization to develop and evaluate interfaces between hardware and software, and operational performance requirements for the overall system.
Develop device drivers, middleware, and board bring-up support alongside hardware teams, including APIs, board support packages (BSPs), and health and status reporting.
Build automated unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop test suites, using test frameworks and software coverage tools (e.g., Python-based frameworks) as applicable.
Support fault-injection testing and environmental test campaigns (TVAC, vibration, EMI/EMC).
Implement communication interfaces using protocols such as SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, Ethernet, RS-422, and, where applicable, SpaceWire and CCSDS standards.
Support hardware and software integration and test activities across mission computing and memory systems.
Participate in design and architecture reviews across the software development lifecycle.