Software Engineer (Contract)

AIRBUS U.S. Space & Defense, Inc.•Merritt Island, FL

2d•Remote

About The Position

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc offers advanced solutions to meet the most complex U.S. defense, security, space, and intelligence requirements. Celebrating over 50 years in the US, we remain a trusted government partner, leveraging world-class satellite, laser communication, rotor and fixed wing solutions to help our national security, defense and space focused customers meet their missions. Airbus U.S. looks to employ a commitment driven team, dedicated to enabling our customer's mission success. We are committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment and a welcoming and engaging staff. With competitive compensation and superior employee benefits, as well as a commitment to fostering individual career growth, Airbus U.S. is the place where top talent wants to work. Airbus U.S. is looking for an enthusiastic and creative software engineer to develop and test spacecraft flight software. We're looking for candidates who can bring exceptional programming skills and experience in embedded software development and testing to the team.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.
A minimum of 3 years with a Bachelor's degree, or 1 year with a Master's degree.
Proven track-record of working with aerospace hardware and/or software systems, starting from conceptual designs and tradeoffs through detailed design, development, manufacture, integration, test, deployment, and operations.
Insatiable curiosity and a demonstrated ability to learn and work independently.
Proficiency in C/C++.
Expertise in one or more of the following: Embedded software development and testing, Device driver development and testing of software/hardware interfaces, Real-time operating systems programming, debugging, and testing, Cybersecurity, GNC algorithms design, analysis, testing, and implementation, Functional validation of embedded software on hardware, Software safety assurance, Network topology and configuration, Simulators: numerical, emulator, and hardware in the loop, Software requirements and configuration management.
US Citizenship.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Government security clearance.
Vision: able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents.
Hearing: able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds including safety warnings or alarms.
Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic. identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment.
Carrying: able to carry documents, electronic equipment and/or supplies up to 40lbs/9kg.
Lifting: able to lift documents, electronic equipment and/or supplies up to 40lbs/9kg.
Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on computer.
Squatting / Kneeling: able to occasionally squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items shelved on bottom shelves.
Standing: able to stand for long periods of time.
Walking: able to walk through office and outside areas including uneven surfaces.

Nice To Haves

Active DoD security clearance at Secret or above highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development and testing of Airbus U.S.'s satellite flight software.
Be involved in the full lifecycle of flight software development, from requirements definition through operations.
Contribute to mission concept development, in-house modeling and simulation capabilities, and proposal writing.
Provide autonomous support of complex assignments, under the leadership of the Software Team Lead and Software Engineering Manager.
Have project and subject matter responsibility and authority.
Upgrade existing flight software for new missions.
Contribute to the development of new satellite flight software for Airbus U.S. satellite platforms.
Develop in-house tools to analyze flight software performance and assess its compatibility with new mission and conops.
Develop and execute flight software verification and validation tests at the unit, module, subsystem, and platform level.
Work with manufacturing engineers to support installation onto the hardware-in-the-loop test environments and eventual flight hardware.
Participate in anomaly resolution activities and patch existing flight software.
Develop and execute FSW verifications tests using both proprietary satellite digital twin software and a Hardware in the Loop (HIL) FlatSat.
Establish and document test methodologies and descriptions to test compliance with Airbus and customer-based requirements.
Develop and implement software and tools for ground support equipment to test and validate flight software.
Contribute to document management, including versioning, bug reporting, and test plan documentation.
Oversee and conduct official validation tests.
Contribute to the development of systems- and mission-level modeling and simulation tools.
Develop software models of payloads for ground testing.
Support development of software model of satellite platform, particularly ensuring accurate representation of the flight software.
Support working groups, both internal and with customers and/or vendors.
Support proposal writing, new business.
Assess the software impacts of new hardware, conops, and missions.