Software Engineer (Contract)

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

13h•Remote

About The Position

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. The Software Engineer will provide autonomous support of complex assignments, under the leadership of the Software Team Lead and Software Engineering Manager. The Software Engineer will have project and subject matter responsibility and authority.

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.
Active DoD security clearance at Secret or above highly desirable.

Responsibilities

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.