Flight Software Engineer

Summary

Join Muon Space as a Flight Software Engineer and contribute to the design, development, integration, and testing of software and firmware for our orbiting satellites. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated versatile software developer with significant previous experience developing robust bare-metal / RTOS embedded devices or appliances.

Requirements

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
• 5+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment
• Strong C/C++ programming, with some practical familiarity of other languages
• Great embedded systems fundamentals: resource-efficient design, low-level drivers, bit manipulation, responsive software and IRQ handling, RTOS frameworks, I/O and communication buses
• Integration and control of external hardware devices
• Read and understand hardware data sheets
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Responsibilities

• Integral member of the team defining and building Muon’s satellite bus platform
• Translate concepts and requirements into design and working implementations, supporting through to on-orbit operations
• Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment that runs in our satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs
• Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for our software foundation
• Write application, platform, and driver functionality in our flight software environment and teach others how to use it
• Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in both software and hardware
• Collaborate with hardware team members on the design and bring up of Muon hardware
• Collaborate with software team members to set flight software architecture, select infrastructure and tools, and communicate with cloud backends
• Participate in developing software and hardware-in-the-loop test strategies

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• A 401k retirement plan
• Short & long term disability and life insurance
• Three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave