Embedded Software Engineer

Location: Lomazzo

Are you ready to take your career to new heights? At D‑Orbit, we’re pioneering the future of space logistics and transportation. Established in 2011, our company has been at the forefront of helping businesses unlock the full potential of the final frontier—profitably and sustainably.
As member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside a diverse group of highly skilled individuals, all driven by a shared passion for innovation and excellence. So, if you are passionate about space and ready to take your ambition to new heights, join us in our global mission to push the boundaries of what’s possible!
D‑Orbit is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to join our team.
You will become part of a software design group responsible for the delivery of software components across a range of embedded and high performance applications in space.
Within a continuous integration environment, you will contribute to the requirements definition, design of SW architecture, coding and testing of mission critical real‑time embedded software, running on the D‑Orbit latest generation spacecraft.
Through these activities and by working with the key stakeholders in the development process you will deliver exciting new features and support spacecraft operations.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks

Contribute to the entire application lifecycle, focusing on requirements definition, design, coding, debugging and integration with the flight hardware (note that the coding language used during the daily job is mostly embedded C and the software spans multiple layers, ranging from low‑level components to middleware and application software)
Preparation of flight software technical documentation
Validation of features including integration with software‑in‑the‑loop and hardware‑in‑the‑loop test suites
Contribute to the continuous improvement of the teams processes and methodologies

Additional duties may be assigned as needed by each project, like:

Define software system specifications during co‑engineering activities with the system team
Improve and develop new features to shared libraries
Maintenance of existing flight applications
Support to AIV activities and spaceflight operations

Requirements

Minimum of 1 year experience in embedded software development.
Experience delivering embedded software in any C‑family language
Knowledge of any typical embedded communication interfaces such as USART, SPI, I2C, CAN
Experience using and configuring any common build tool chains or similar development environment (such as ANT, WAF, Makefile, Visual Studio etc.)
Familiarity with Git versioning system or any similar DVCS
Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively
Degree, in any relevant area such as computer engineering, electronic engineering, aerospace engineering, robotics or automation.
Full professional proficiency of English language is mandatory.

Preferred Qualifications

Good understanding of SW design and testing lifecycle in regulated environment (ideally ECSS standard)
Knowledge of real‑time operating systems (such as RTEMS or FreeRTOS) and / or operating systems targeted for embedded applications (such as any embedded Linux)
Experience in debugging embedded software using standard laboratory equipment
Basic understanding of Assembler language
Experience in defining software system specifications and software requirements
Knowledge of Python
Familiarity with using any Linux based distribution and appreciation of application development
Familiarity with typical software development methodology and release versioning processes
Familiarity with OBDH and TMTC architectures used in space systems
Capability of working in autonomy

Hiring Process
Here’s how our hiring process works—simple and straightforward:
Application review:
We go through all applications, but we’ll only reach out to candidates who closely match what we’re looking for.
If you don’t hear from us, it means we’re not moving forward with your application at this time, but we may consider your profile for more aligned opening in the future!

First chat:
Selected candidates will have an initial meeting with the people team so we can get to know each other and talk through…