Senior Software Engineer, Flight Software
You will join Muon's satellite flight software team as a self-motivated versatile software developer with significant experience building robust bare-metal and RTOS embedded devices. You'll design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on orbiting satellites, working from Muon's San Jose, CA office.
Responsibilities
- Serve as an 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 satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs
- Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for the software foundation
- Write application, platform, and driver functionality in the 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
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- Equity grant
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k retirement plan
- Short & long term disability and life insurance
- Three weeks paid vacation for new employees
- 12 paid holidays
- Unlimited sick time
- Paid parental leave