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Muon Space · 21 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer, Flight Software

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$198K/yr - $223K/yr

8+ years exp

Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. They are seeking a Flight Software Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware for their orbiting satellites.

AerospaceInformation ServicesInformation Technology

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

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

Qualification

C/C++ programmingEmbedded systemsRTOS frameworksIntegration of hardwareLinux developmentData formatsEnd-to-end developmentCommunicationPresentation skills

Required

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field

8+ 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