Senior Flight 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 a 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 a Senior Flight Software Engineer to join our Flight Software team.
In line with space industry standards and best practices, you will contribute to the development of mission-critical, real-time embedded software running on D-Orbit’s latest-generation On-Board Computers.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks   Contribute to the entire embedded software application lifecycle, focusing on requirements definition, design, coding, debugging and integration with the flight hardware, with a primary focus on OBC softwar
Preparation of flight software deliverable documentation for project milestones
Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team processes and methodologies, including identification, definition and maintenance of cross-projects building blocks
Coordinate with subcontractors and software suppliers
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 software applications
Support to AIV and HIL / SIL test activities
Take part to reviews with stakeholders
Mentor junior engineers
Requirements   Minimum of 7 years experience in embedded software development, including definition of real-time SW architectures
Experience delivering embedded software in any C-family language
Knowledge of any typical embedded communication interfaces such as USART, SPI, I2C, CAN, SpW, MIL-STD-1553 and related protocols
Familiarity SW requirements elicitation, SW design and testing lifecycle in regulated environment (ideally ECSS standard)
Experience using and configuring any common build tool chains or similar development environment (such as ANT, WAF, Makefile, Visual Studio, Jenkins 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 ECSS standards for OBC / Payload SW (PUS, OBCP, Savoir, etc.)
Good understanding of CCSDS standards for telemetry and telecommand (including CFDP)
Knowledge of real-time operating systems (such as RTEMS or FreeRTOS) and / or operating systems targeted for embedded applications (such as any embedded Linux)
Basic understanding of Assembly language
Familiarity with with bug / SPR tracking and project management tools (Jira)
Hiring Process   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 you 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 mutual expectations, motivation for change and goals.
Technical interviews :
Next, you’ll have one or two technical interviews, focused on your skills and how you approach challenges relevant to the role.
Offer :
If all goes well, we’ll send you an offer! Sometimes this stage can take a bit of time, as we like to carefully consider each candidate and make sure the fit with the team is just right.
We do our best to get back to everyone we interview, but sometimes things take longer than we’d like and updates might…