Embedded Ground Software Avionics Engineer

Embedded Ground Software Avionics Engineer 3

At ULA, as an Embedded Ground Software Avionics Engineer 3 you are responsible for maintaining and developing new software / hardware products, implementing modern design principles and concepts, resolving complex technical problems, and providing solutions which are innovative and ingenious. You will work with a highly collaborative team in an Agile environment embracing a "fail-fast" mentality (fail fast, fail often, react quickly and learn from every failure).

You will engage with Product Owners, Technology Architects, QA and/or Automation team members on cross-functional activities to design, develop, and test cutting-edge software solutions. You will be expected to understand and coach technical concepts to those around you. In this position, you will primarily support the Ground Software Avionics team, providing both technical leadership and hands-on development to deliver operational and enabling capabilities to meet hard real-time requirements for command and control of Avionics Flight Control hardware and EGSE Systems.

You will help ensure delivery of mission critical software used during launch vehicle manufacturing, preflight test, and launch countdown to prep our rockets for flight. You will help design, develop, operate and maintain software and firmware components and computing systems software to be applied to and integrated with engineering, scientific and manufacturing systems. Apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of engineering applications and products such as display systems, mechanical control systems and electrical control systems that are directly used to operate all our rockets.

You will interface with customers, suppliers, application users and other technical and support personnel to produce high quality software that meets stakeholder needs.

Required

Education:

Bachelor

Required Years of

Experience:

Minimum of 4 years of related work experience

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical / Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline with a minimum of 4+ years of work experience
• Experience as an agile Product Owner or Project Management
• Presenting hardware / software / system architecture and designs to both internal audiences as well as external customers
• Expertise with Real Time Linux-based operating systems
• Development and troubleshooting of timing critical Hardware and Software systems
• Authoring, executing and review of Software products and their implementation
• Object-oriented designs and languages
• C/C++
• Software Configuration Management practices including Agile Methodologies
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Software Design Principles
• Configuration Management practices and tools such as Git
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Technical leadership experience in an Engineering environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with designing and architecting software for complex solutions
• Experience with Python

Salary Range (for ULA - Denver only): $ - $

What makes ULA different? Because we understand launch success comes through the collective efforts of a team, we seek the best to join us. We value ethics, ingenuity, engagement and professional development for employees at all levels. We offer our employees competitive pay and benefits including: 401(k) match plus an additional employer contribution, discretionary annual incentive bonus for eligible employees, generous paid time off, flexible work environments.

Additionally, most salaried ULA team members work a "9/80 schedule," meaning they enjoy every other Friday off. Benefits and work schedules may vary for union-represented hourly positions and are described in the applicable collective bargaining agreement.