Teams at The Exploration Company

Defines and maintains spacecraft flight software architecture, including components, interfaces, data flows, requirements traceability, integration, verification, safety, reliability, and performance. Provides technical leadership, evaluates architectural trade-offs and risks, coordinates with avionics, GNC, systems engineering, and mission operations, and guides multidisciplinary teams in developing scalable, maintainable, mission-critical software.

Lead verification and validation, requirements traceability, test planning, certification documentation, and software functional baselining for spacecraft flight software. Collaborate with software developers, systems engineers, subsystem owners, certification bodies, and safety authorities. Apply aerospace software standards, support NASA Safety Reviews, plan integrated mission testing, and resolve technical issues using expertise in C/C++, Python, embedded systems, and real-time software.

Develops guidance, navigation, and control systems for rocket-powered landers across the full lifecycle, including requirements, design, simulation, control-law software, hardware integration, HiL and flight testing, parameter estimation, and verification. Collaborates with avionics, propulsion, test, and ground-control teams while managing technical baselines and delivering work packages on schedule, quality, and cost.