Flight Software Engineer IV

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.

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. We provide leadership and specialized expertise in developing flight software and systems engineering for spacecraft, small satellites, and instrument payloads.
As a Flight Software Engineer IV
, you will be working for JPL's Flight Software and Systems Engineering Section
, which provides leadership and specialized expertise in developing flight software and systems engineering for spacecraft, small satellites, and instrument payloads.
As a key member of the Flight Software Architecture and Infrastructure Group, you will perform software engineering activities associated with the delivery of embedded flight software products for small scale projects developing Cube Sats, small satellites and spacecraft payloads where the typical flight software team sizes are between one and five people.
Mostly a software engineering assignment would involve the development of complex and mission critical embedded software for spacecraft, including software requirements definition, software design, code development, peer review, documentation, thorough unit testing, integration testing using simulations and avionics hardware, and defect resolution to JPL flight mission customers.
As a Flight Software Engineer IV, you would typically work independently with minimal guidance or lead a small team of software developers in planning a task, establishing requirements, preparing and presenting design solutions, managing resources, conducting reviews, reporting to upper management and mentoring fewer senior engineers.

Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related discipline with a minimum of 9 years of related work experience; a Master's degree in similar disciplines with a minimum of 7 years of related work experience; or a PhD in similar disciplines with a minimum of 5 years of related work experience.
Other qualifications include:

• Extensive understanding and wide application of advanced principles, theories, concepts and hands‑on programming techniques in:
• Architecting, developing, modifying, debugging, releasing and maintaining complex real-time embedded software systems for mission‑critical, aerospace applications.
• Developing application programs for the various functional domains (e.g., CDH, GNC, System Fault…