Sr. Software Engineer

Sr. Software Engineer (Contract)

This position offers fully remote opportunities for candidates across the United States. Preferred work locations:
Arlington VA, Denver CO, Houston, TX or Merritt Island, FL.

Airbus U.S. is looking for an enthusiastic and creative software engineer to develop spacecraft flight software. We're looking for candidates who can bring exceptional programming skills and experience in embedded software to the team.

Position Responsibilities:

The Software Engineer's primary responsibility will be contributing to the development of Airbus U.S.'s 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 Airbus U.S. 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.

Qualified Experience / Skills / Training:

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.

Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities:

• 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.

Travel Required:

• Periodic travel (less than 20%) to Airbus U.S. facilities or partner companies.
• Occasional International travel to collaborate with European Airbus counterparts.

Eligibility:

• US Citizenship is required.

Clearance:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
• Active DoD security clearance at Secret or above highly desirable.

Physical Requirements:

• Vision: able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read…