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Flight Software Engineer

Listing for: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Full Time position Listed on 2026-11-08
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Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 96616 - 117104 USD Yearly USD 96616.00 117104.00 YEAR

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Flight Software Engineer I page is loaded## Flight Software Engineer Ilocations: JPL Campus time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition : R6254#
** Job Details
** New ideas are all around us, but only a few will change the world. That's our focus  ask the biggest questions, then search the universe for answers - literally. We build upon ideas that have guided generations, then share our discoveries to inspire generations to come. Your mission - your opportunity - is to seek out the answers that bring us one step closer.

If you're driven to discover, create, and inspire something that lasts a lifetime and beyond, you're ready for JPL.Located in Pasadena, California, JPL has a campus-like environment situated on 177 acres in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and offers a work environment unlike any other: we inspire passion, foster innovation, build collaboration, and reward excellence.
** Responsibilities:
** If you are passionate about spacecraft design, we invite you to join the
** Flight Software & Systems Engineering Section**. We provide flight software and systems engineering for the design and implementation of spacecraft for the laboratory's key flight projects. Our work spans spacecraft systems engineering, flight software, fault protection and autonomy design, and landing systems design.

The
** Instrument Flight Software Group
** is the lab-wide leader in embedded real-time software systems definition and implementation, responsible for the design, development, testing and delivery of embedded flight software for instruments needed by JPL/NASA to enable missions in astrophysics, and planetary, Earth and remote sensing experiments and observations with highly complex or specialized operations and science requirements.

As an embedded
** Flight Software Engineer I
** for the Instrument Flight Software Group, you will have the opportunity to implement or test science instruments and spacecraft capabilities including command, communication, data management, instrument managers, and fault protection. From low-level device drivers to high-level behaviors, you'll find many interesting programming and testing opportunities.
** Tasks include but are not limited to:
*** Design and implement real-time flight software for science instruments
* Work with Instrument engineers to generate software requirements and design of the flight software components that meet the project requirements
* Design software modules that implement the functions of the flight system, hardware/software interfaces, boot process, C&DH functions such as Instrument operations, Science data Acquisition and control, Engineering and Science data handling, Fault Protection, Thermal Power Control in both nominal and off-nominal scenarios
* Develop test plans, unit tests, regression test and evaluate test results. Run tests against simulators and testbeds
* Identify and troubleshoot technical issues with flight software in an integrated system
* Work with multi-disciplinary team and experienced flight software developers
*
* Qualifications:

*** Bachelors in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related technical discipline with a minimum of 1 year of related experience;
Master's degree in similar disciplines; or PhD in similar disciplines with zero years of related experience.
* Strong C/C++ programming skills
* Multi-threaded programming
* Coursework in operating systems, computer architecture, algorithms, and data structures
* Knowledge of principles, theories, concepts and hands-on programming techniques in:+ Developing, modifying, debugging, releasing and maintaining real-time embedded software systems for mission-critical, aerospace applications.+ Developing embedded real-time application programs utilizing RTOS+ Developing device driver and software/hardware interfaces for both custom and commercial hardware.+ Distributed computing and inter-process communication mechanisms in a space partitioned software architecture.+ Communication buses and protocols:
Space Wire, PCI/PCIe,UART, Ethernet+ Continues Integration, development flow, git flow process
* Internship or experience with significant C or C++ programming+ Internship or experience with embedded processors or microcontrollers programming or development process on Cube Sats
** Preferred

Skills:

*** Coursework in programming languages, software engineering, computer science theory, embedded programming
* Python, C++, or Java
* Experience of applying artificial intelligence tools to…
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