Muon SpaceRemote
Software Engineer, Flight Software
United States of America
Full Time
1 hour ago
$170,000 - $195,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
C/C++ ProgrammingEmbedded SystemsRTOSLow-level DriversBit ManipulationI/O and Communication BusesIntegration of External Hardware DevicesHardware Data Sheet InterpretationLinux-based Development EnvironmentEmbedded LinuxFPGARF Communication SystemsCloud/Server InfrastructureCommunicationPresentationC++CPresentation Skills
About this role
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 software and firmware for their orbiting satellites.
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
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
- Knowledge of industry-standard data formats and schemas (ProtoBuf, YAML, JSON, etc)
- Familiarity with a Linux-based development environment
- Experience with one or more of: embedded linux, FPGA, HW design, RF communication systems, cloud/server infrastructure, network architecture
- End-to-end development from product concept to delivery to customer/market