Turion Space

Flight Software Engineer

Irvine, California, United States

$120-160k

Full Time

6 months ago

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Job description

Turion Space is seeking skilled Flight Software engineers. We are a new space startup that is growing fast with one satellite in space and at least 6 more planned in the next two years.

As a Flight Software Engineer, you will work directly with the Turion team to assist in the architecture, development, and testing of the flight software that commands and monitors our spacecraft fleet. In your role as a flight software engineer you will directly impact the architecture of the vehicle's software and computer systems as the missions increase in complexity.

Day to day tasks include bus design, software architecture planning, driver development, complex mission capabilities implementation, fault detection isolation and recovery implementation, as well as coordinating with other teams.

Well qualified candidates with relevant prior experience will be considered for the position of Senior Flight Software Engineer. If a candidate performs well there is the potential for promotion to flight software lead within 4 to 6 months.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop and validate complex embedded spacecraft flight software
Write drivers to interface with various spacecraft components
Other complex embedded software engineering tasks including board bring up, boot-loader development, filesystem implementation, operating system configuration and modification, protocol implementation.
Implement software for automated testing at component, functional, and system levels, including HITL (Hardware in the Loop) testing
Select flight computers, and design overall satellite software architecture
Integrating and testing flight software with our mission control system.
Assist in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor of Science degree in CS, EE (or equivalent experience in the field)
Experience with embedded systems programming. C/C++ proficiency mandatory
Several years experience in implementing embedded software solutions on spacecraft missions or other similar complex embedded systems
Demonstrated ability to personally design, build, and test embedded software from scratch
Capable of identifying and solving complex problems with little to no supervision or direction
Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed on rare occasions
Experience with Linux and shell command-line tools
Must be able to obtain a Secret and/or a TS/SCI clearance.

Preferred Skills and Experience

Familiarity with commonly used protocols and standards for spacecraft communications, such as CCSDS, CAN, SpaceWire
2+ years experience developing flight software for spacecraft missions
Experience writing drivers for interfacing with hardware
Experience working with operating systems, file systems, and bootloaders
Experience testing embedded software for complex high reliability applications.
A love for small fast paced teams and fast moving organizations