Turion Space

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Irvine, California, United States

$120-180k

Full Time

an hour ago

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Job description

Turion Space is seeking skilled Embedded 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 Senior Embedded 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

Establish the architecture, and execute the design, development and maintenance of reliable and fault tolerant software
Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary engineering team
Implement software to meet requirements while managing interfaces with multiple spacecrafts subsystems and ground systems hardware
Develop command and control software for spacecraft flight and payload electronics
Develop and participate in test campaigns ranging from unit-level to automated testing at the subsystem and system-level
Develop documentation for operation and interface with software products

Minimum Qualifications

An engineering degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent
5+ years of demonstrated applicable experience in high reliability software development
Developing concurrent code with asynchronous Rust
Software development expertise in embedded environments, working with:C or C++
Experience programing on embedded ARM cores supporting SoC architectures and working in a Linux or bare-metal environment
Understanding of processor architecture and writing code to optimize for speed and size
Experience with software development processes including: source control, bug tracking, and design documentation
Comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced development environment

Preferred Skills and Experience

Advanced degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent and 8+ years experience
Experience working within an agile framework
Knowledge of Ethernet, SPI, I2C, UART, and PCIe interfaces
Experience with software running in autonomous, fault critical systems
Experience developing, deploying and maintaining software product lines
Background in dynamics and control systems