Description

• Design, develop, test, document, and maintain software for spaceflight equipment and supporting ground systems.
• Develop embedded Linux applications for custom circuit boards, avionics, and spaceflight hardware.
• Develop and maintain ground applications used to command, control, and monitor flight hardware and customer experiments.
• Develop user interfaces, network communications, automation scripts, test software, and fault-detection capabilities.
• Work closely with electrical engineers to bring new circuit-board designs online, develop required software interfaces, and troubleshoot hardware and software integration issues.
• Collaborate with integration engineers, designers, customers, and principal investigators throughout payload development, integration, verification, and testing.
• Help ensure that customer experiments and payloads meet applicable ISS and MISSE requirements, can be successfully integrated, and will function as intended on orbit.
• Support MISSE avionics design, upgrades, maintenance, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Assemble and test flight hardware and ground support equipment when required.
• Plan and support environmental testing of spaceflight hardware.
• Review electrical, embedded-circuit, software, and system designs developed by other team members and provide constructive technical feedback.
• Support the design and integration of electronics and software interfaces for customer experiments and payloads.
• Support hardware manufacturing, assembly, integration, verification, and testing activities.
• Support on-orbit operations and troubleshoot issues involving customer experiments, payloads, avionics, and supporting software.
• Develop technical documentation and prepare clear, concise reports describing assigned tasks, technical findings, risks, and progress.
• Communicate daily activities, technical issues, and relevant updates to other team members.
• Travel as necessary to support program and mission requirements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Must have 5-10 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Experience developing software using C++ and Python, along with familiarity with other commonly used programming languages.
• Experience developing software for Linux and embedded systems.
• Experience developing user interfaces and implementing network communication protocols.
• Experience designing, testing, debugging, and maintaining software that interfaces with custom hardware.
• Knowledge of electrical components and embedded-system design, integration, and operation.
• Familiarity with the effects of the spaceflight environment on electrical components and the selection of components for spaceflight applications.
• Experience with structured software development, version control, configuration management, unit testing, and integration testing.
• Ability to interpret technical requirements and translate them into reliable software solutions.
• Self-motivated and focused on delivering high-quality products on schedule and within budget.
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision while also performing effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, time-management, and organizational skills.
• Dependable, accountable, and able to work effectively in a dynamic technical environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Ability and willingness to work onsite and travel as required.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident and able to successfully complete a government background check.

• Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with NASA requirements, verification, and flight-certification processes.
• Experience developing software for flight hardware, spacecraft payloads, ground-control systems, or other mission-critical systems.
• Experience supporting payload integration, hardware testing, environmental testing, or on-orbit operations.
• Experience using analog or digital electronic test equipment.
• Familiarity with spaceflight avionics, electrical interfaces, and communication protocols.
• Previous aerospace or spaceflight-industry experience.

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