Flight Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, or Doctorate in Software or Computer Engineering from an accredited university or institution.
• At least 8 years of industry experience in spacecraft software development; a master's degree may count as two years of experience.
• Hands-on experience developing and troubleshooting software systems and hardware, such as motors and power distribution units.
• Experience with C, C++, Python, or other programming languages in an aerospace context.
• Strong understanding of space missions from conception through flight and disposal.
• Familiarity with spacecraft mission design, including events, pointing modes, maneuver planning, sequencing, and operations.
• Experience analyzing and recovering from spacecraft failures during post-CDR testing and on-orbit operations.
• Experience with design for reliability, spaceflight redundancy, and fault detection, identification, and recovery.
• Space software experience involving attitude dynamics, coordinate-frame transformations, vector mathematics, radiative heat transfer, spacecraft propulsion, space communication systems, and power systems.
• Experience with TCP/IP or UDP communication protocols for software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop lab development and spaceflight use.
• Experience integrating a variety of open-source software into an integrated system.
• Embedded software experience, particularly for space missions.
• Ability to implement physical first principles as scripts or spreadsheets.
• Experience with software release, revisioning, and configuration processes.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools, defect tracking tools, and peer review.
• Experience with trades and processes for handling radiation tolerance in software on automotive-grade parts.
• Familiarity with continuous integration, test, and delivery systems.
• Excellent understanding of multithreaded applications and resource management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• CubeSat and SmallSat experience, including LEO, MEO, GEO, and beyond.
• Hands-on experience with spacecraft instrumentation, subsystems, and test labs.
• Experience with JPL F’, NASA cFS, and other commercial space software frameworks.
• Experience with ground system software engineering for space missions.
• Experience in a team leadership role on a space software program.
• Experience in other non-space safety-critical software programs.
• Experience with network security.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software to build and integrate mission systems, including satellites, ground stations, and mission operations centers.
• Design, develop, code, test, debug, and document system software.
• Review code and system designs.
• Analyze code for efficiency, stability, and scalability.
• Integrate and validate new product designs.
• Support software quality assurance and optimize I/O performance.
• Provide post-production and in-orbit customer support.
• Interface with hardware design and development engineers.
• Assess third-party and open-source software.
• Contribute to software architecture, requirements definition, implementation, code review, validation, and verification.
• Direct, mentor, and grow a team of spacecraft engineers.

Benefits

• Company stock options.
• Health, dental, and vision plans.
• Health savings account (HSA) and flexible spending account (FSA).
• Life and disability plans.
• Retirement plans.