The Software Engineer's primary responsibility will be contributing to the development of customer satellite flight software. This engineer will be involved in the full lifecycle of flight software development, from requirements definition through operations. However, because we are a small team where each person takes on many roles, this engineer will also contribute to mission concept development, in-house modeling and simulation capabilities, and proposal writing. Being at the cutting edge of space technology, we need someone who is eager to learn, grow, and take on new and potentially unfamiliar challenges. There is no shortage of fascinating problems to solve.
The Senior Software Engineer will provide autonomous support of complex assignments, under the leadership of the Software Engineering Manager. The Senior Software Engineer will have project and subject matter responsibility and authority.
Flight Software - 75%
- Upgrade existing flight software for new missions.
- Contribute to the development of new satellite flight software for customer 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 tests at the unit, module, subsystem, and platform level.
- Work with manufacturing engineers to support installation onto the hardware-in-the-loop test environment and eventual flight hardware.
- Participate in anomaly resolution activities and patch existing flight software.
Systems Modeling - 15%
- 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.
Additional Responsibilities - 10%
- 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.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.
- Preferred: Masters in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.
Experience:
- A minimum of 8 years with a bachelor's degree, or 6 years 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.
Skills:
- 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.
- Device driver development and 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 is required
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in STEM
- Master's degree in STEM
- Minimum 8 years (BS) or 6 years (MS) experience
- Proven experience with aerospace hardware and software across lifecycle
- US Citizenship
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Embedded software development
- Device driver development and software/hardware interfaces
- Real-time operating systems programming, debugging, and testing
- Hardware-in-the-loop simulation and testing
- Development and use of simulators (numerical, emulator)
- Software requirements and configuration management
- Cybersecurity (applied to embedded/flight systems)
- GNC algorithms design, analysis, testing, implementation
- Software safety assurance
- Network topology and configuration
- Proposal writing and support for new business
What We Do
Red Canyon Engineering and Software develops cutting-edge technology to help humankind explore space and other planets, as well as advanced renewable resources on Earth. We are proud to be involved with important missions ranging from searching for water on Mars, to analyzing the composition of distant comets, and building the next human spacecraft. Our clients include government agencies such as NASA, NOAA, NREL, JPL, and DOD, in addition to customers such as Lockheed Martin Space, Raytheon, Sierra Nevada Corporation, a.i. solutions, Walt Disney Imagineering, SAIC, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, Honeywell, KBRwyle, Maxar, Blue Origin, and Moog. We are an SBA certified HUBZone and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).
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