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Embedded Flight Software Engineer
Develop deterministic onboard software for command handling, autonomy, fault management, payload control and spacecraft health.
Role mandate
Build the capability for the era ahead.
This team member will combine subject-matter depth, sound judgment and disciplined execution to move the mission from architecture to measurable results.
Responsibilities
- Own the Flight Software workstream for Embedded Flight Software Engineer and deliver measurable technical or operating outcomes.
- Build governed software, models or data pipelines for reliable enterprise and mission operations.
- Define testing, monitoring, security and human-approval controls for production deployment.
- Integrate algorithms with real operational data, infrastructure and decision workflows.
Required qualifications
- Hands-on experience delivering production software, machine-learning systems, embedded code or digital models.
- Strong skills in system design, testing, version control and technical documentation.
- Ability to work across data, infrastructure, security and domain-engineering teams.
Preferred experience
- Experience with autonomous agents, closed models, neural networks, real-time systems or hardware acceleration.
- Background in regulated, aerospace or high-availability environments.
Scientific and technical requirements
Physics, mathematics and engineering foundations
- Digital logic, computer architecture, real-time systems, signals and systems, fault tolerance, networking and deterministic scheduling.
- Boolean algebra, finite-state machines, queueing, coding theory, numerical representation and worst-case execution-time analysis.
Mathematics and working equations
- Schedulability for fixed-priority periodic tasks is assessed from utilization and worst-case response time, including blocking and interrupt latency.
- Data throughput = sample rate × bits/sample × channels plus framing/coding overhead; close processing, memory and downlink budgets.
- Reliability and upset rates must include radiation environment, mitigation coverage and recovery time.
Hardware, flight and infrastructure components
- Radiation-tolerant processor/SoC/FPGA, volatile and nonvolatile memory, watchdogs, timers, ADC/DAC, SpaceWire/CAN/UART/Ethernet interfaces and redundant clocks.
- Bootloader, RTOS or flight executive, BSP/drivers, command and telemetry services, file system, FDIR and secure update chain.
Software, laboratory and analysis tools
- C/C++, Rust or Ada where appropriate; HDL; cross-compilers, static analysis, debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers.
- Git, CI, unit/integration test, software-in-the-loop, processor/FPGA-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop benches.
Verification and mission skills
- Prove timing, memory bounds, deterministic startup, safe-mode entry, watchdog recovery, fault injection, interface compliance and code/requirements traceability.
Authoritative technical references
The hiring sequence will follow operating milestones and project requirements. The position may begin through advisory, consulting or project-based work before moving into a full-time role.
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