Flight Software Engineer II

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Full Time Professional Washington, DC, US

30+ days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

SECRET position. Personnel must possess a final DoD granted SECRET security clearance.

Experience and Degree:
Junior:
Master’s degree;
Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of experience;
Associate degree with 10 years;
High School Diploma/GED with 10 years of experience.

• Provide engineering support of the flight and ground system design and development team to assure system integrity, standards are applied where practical, new and emerging technologies are exploited to the required extent, and the system is developed with the goal of reuse of applicable software components in both ground and space systems to reduce development time and cost.
• Design and development of all software related to spacecraft bus functions, instrument control, and onboard data processing.
• Develop software for both run-time external commanding, controlling, and configuring; as well as run-time delivery of status, event logs, state of health and telemetry.
• Develop safety-critical applications capable of detecting software and hardware fault and responding to faults in a prescribed manner through isolation or recovery.
• Develop software control of flight systems leveraging real‑time sensing and actuating interfaces.
• Develop hardware and application specific boot code for establishing baseline flight services and loading OS and application code into execution memory.
• Evaluate and apply advanced mathematical methods and algorithms in software solutions which meet the control and performance requirements of flight systems.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements.
• Provide specific input to the software components of a system design to include hardware/software trade‑offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
• Design, implement, and integrate software applications or perform software engineering tasks.
• Utilize software engineering and design methodologies appropriate to the development, integration, and production environment.
• Ensure efficient delivery of software engineering capabilities using industry standards and repeatable processes.