Staff Software Engineer, Flight Software

Muon Space•San Jose, CA

3h•$240,000 - $270,000•Onsite

About The Position

About the role Muon seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join our flight software team. The ideal candidate is an expert software developer with significant previous experience architecting and building robust bare-metal / RTOS embedded devices or appliances. In this role, you will both set architectural direction for, and lead design, development, integration, and testing of much of the software and firmware that runs on our orbiting satellites. This position is based at our San Jose, CA office.

Requirements

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
10+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment
Strong C/C++ programming, with practical familiarity of other languages
Great embedded systems fundamentals: distributed system architecture, resource-efficient design, low-level drivers, bit manipulation, responsive software and IRQ handling, RTOS frameworks, I/O and communication buses.
Integration and control of external hardware devices
Read and understand hardware data sheets
Excellent communication and presentation skills

Nice To Haves

Experience working in flight software or some closely related domain
Rust and Python experience
Knowledge of industry-standard data formats and schemas (ProtoBuf, YAML, JSON, etc)
Familiarity with a Linux-based development environment
Experience with one or more of: embedded linux, FPGA, HW design, RF communication systems, cloud/server infrastructure, network architecture.
End-to-end development from product concept to delivery to customer/market.

Responsibilities

Leading member of the team defining and building Muon’s satellite bus platform
Define and architect design and execution against the basic concepts and requirements of our missions to get the write software and firmware on orbit
Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment that runs in our satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs.
Guide evaluation and selection of technologies for our software foundation
Write application, platform, and driver functionality in our flight software environment and set the standards for how others use it
Build the architectural patterns, shared libraries, services and technical strategy documents that enable high-quality and high-velocity development of flight software
Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in both software and hardware
Collaborate with hardware team members on the design and bring up of Muon hardware
Align team roadmaps with product requirements and mission needs
Define metrics aligned with critical company goals and enable the team to achieve aggressive goals
Ensure effective software and hardware-in-the-loop test strategies
Mentor senior engineers

Benefits

full-time employees receive equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short & long term disability and life insurance
three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave

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