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General Galactic · 3 months ago

Lead Flight/Embedded Software Engineer

LA Metro Area

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$145K/yr - $215K/yr

5+ years exp

General Galactic designs, develops, and builds advanced spacecraft for demanding missions, leveraging cutting-edge propulsion technology. The Lead Flight/Embedded Software Engineer will be responsible for leading all aspects of embedded and flight software development for the company’s product fleet, ensuring high performance and safety standards.

AerospaceSpace Travel

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain embedded software for microcontrollers and similar

Architect and deliver core flight software with a focus on meeting system and performance requirements such as latency, jitter, & control frequency

Implement, test, and integrate software for GNC algorithms, command and telemetry, mission management, health and status, and fault management in a real-time software framework

Write clean, efficient, and testable code for real-time and safety-critical applications

Implement communication protocols (UDP, multicast, Ethernet, etc.)

Collaborate with hardware and avionics engineers to support full product development lifecycle

Manage clear and concise documentation for code, ConOps, etc

Develop telemetry system that prioritizes, filters, stores and forwards, and encodes/decodes telemetry to RF format, and routes that data

Collaborate with GNC engineers to integrate complex algorithms for vehicle ops

Support avionics engineers in the development and integration of testing infrastructure such as HITL (Hardware-In-The-Loop) and HOOTL (Hardware-Out-Of-The-Loop)

Qualification

C/C++Embedded software developmentRTOS environmentsSatellite communications protocolsMicrocontroller architecturesSoftware safety certificationPythonGitGrafanaDebuggingOptimizationProblem solving

Required

BS in computer science, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, or similar degree

5+ years of experience in development of software, with preference for aerospace applications

Demonstrated experience with C/C++, Git, Python, Grafana, or similar

Experience with RTOS environments and satellite communications protocols

Understanding of microcontroller architectures and interfaces

Skilled in debugging and optimization (as well as hazard analysis and root cause analysis), memory management and scheduling, etc

Experience with developing software to a safety standard and achieving formal certification with a governing body (e.g. NASA, FAA, FDA, etc.)

Experience in a fast-paced startup environment or similar

Strong engineering background and first-principles approach to problem solving even with incomplete or partial information

US person status (including US citizens, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted U.S. asylum status, or individuals admitted in U.S. refugee status) is a required qualification for this position