Flight Software Engineer III
Company: Sierra Space
Location: Louisville
Posted on: May 6, 2024
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Job Description:
Do you enjoy developing new products and services? Join us! Our
Software Engineers work in an agile, collective environment. You
will be using your skills and expertise to define, design, develop,
test, certify and improve cutting-edge software products. These
cover a very wide range from advanced mission payloads and
electronic systems through highly integrated aircraft to orbital
and space exploration systems. You'll perform coding, debugging,
testing, and troubleshooting of systems and software throughout our
development process. Your technical duties involve the design and
development of new software products throughout the product
lifecycle. Sierra Space-based in Louisville, CO with operations in
Madison, WI, Durham, NC, Huntsville, AL, Houston, TX, and Kennedy
Space Center, FL-designs and manufactures the Dream Chaser
spaceplane and other advanced spacecraft, commercial space
destinations, satellites, propulsion and environmental systems,
spacecraft subsystems and components for the U.S. government
(including NASA), commercial customers, and international
organizations. Learn more about Sierra Space Sierra Space, based in
Louisville, Colorado with operations in Madison, Wisconsin and
Durham, North Carolina, designs and manufactures advanced
spacecraft, satellites, propulsion and environmental systems,
spacecraft subsystems and components for the U.S. government
(including NASA), commercial customers and international
organizations. Learn more about Sierra Space Sierra Space's Orbital
Mission and Services (OMS) division focuses on the design, build,
and operations of small satellites in support of commercial
services and national security space and offers two work locations:
Louisville, Colorado and Centennial, Colorado. As a Flight Software
Engineer, your primary responsibility will be designing and
developing flight and simulation software and algorithms solutions
for testbeds and spacecraft missions fr both civilian and DoD
applications. - These designs stem from understanding, analyzing
and evaluating satellite and constellation capabilities, mission
concepts, and system requirements. Your work will ensure we meet
customer requirements by making data-driven decisions in
architecting, planning, building and testing the design in a
testbed prototype and subsequent delivery of the end product. Along
the way, you will build tools and contribute to analyses of various
architectures that include space vehicles, satellites, sensors,
communications, and ground infrastructure; evolving or creating new
approaches based on analysis results. You will also contribute to
evaluating the mission effectiveness of the candidate approaches,
balancing mission objectives against factors such as development
and lifecycle costs. - This candidate will have experience with all
portions of the software life cycle (concept development,
requirements definition, design, development, testing, and
deployment). - The Software Engineer participates in the design and
development of flight software to support ongoing and future small
satellite programs. This individual must have a strong working
knowledge of object-oriented design using the C and C++ languages,
and must have a strong background in deploying and testing flight
code on embedded processors. - The ideal candidate will have recent
experience with at least one real-time operating system (such as
VxWorks), and be familiar with both asymmetric and symmetric
multiprocessing architectures. - The candidate must also be
comfortable working in an Agile Scrum environment.
Must-haves:
At Sierra Space (Sierra Space) we deliver customer-focused
technology and best-of-breed integrations in the aerospace and
defense sectors. Sierra Space has been honored as one of the most
innovative U.S. companies in space, a Tier One Superior Supplier
for the U.S. Air Force, and as one of America's fastest-growing
companies. Learn more about Sierra Space Physical/Mental/Emotional
Requirements:
Working Conditions:
Sierra Space offers a generous benefit package, including medical,
dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 8%, life
insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.
At Sierra Space, our mission is to dream, innovate, inspire and
empower the next generation to transform humanity through
technology and imagination. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we
welcome our employees to bring their whole selves to their work.
Sierra Space is committed to fostering an inclusive, accepting, and
diverse environment free of discrimination on the basis of race,
color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Contributions to Sierra Space come in many shapes and styles, and
we believe diversity in our workforce fosters new and greater ways
to dream, innovate, and inspire.
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