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Airbus US Space & Defense, Inc. · 2 weeks ago

Principal Software Engineer (Contract)

Full-time, Contract

Onsite

Lead/Staff

12+ years exp

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc. offers advanced solutions for U.S. defense and space requirements. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to develop spacecraft flight software, contributing to the full lifecycle of flight software development and leading complex assignments while providing guidance to junior engineers.

InfrastructureMilitarySpace Travel

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Upgrade existing flight software for new missions

Contribute to the development of new satellite flight software for Airbus U.S. satellite platforms

Develop in-house tools to analyze flight software performance and assess its compatibility with new mission and conops

Develop and execute flight software tests at the unit, module, subsystem, and platform level

Work with manufacturing engineers to support installation onto the hardware-in-the-loop test environment and eventual flight hardware

Participate in anomaly resolution activities and patch existing flight software

Contribute to the development of systems- and mission-level modeling and simulation tools

Develop software models of payloads for ground testing

Support development of software model of satellite platform, particularly ensuring accurate representation of the flight software

Support working groups, both internal and with customers and/or vendors

Support proposal writing, new business

Assess the software impacts of new hardware, conops, and missions

Qualification

Embedded software developmentC/C++Flight software systemsReal-time operating systemsCybersecurity for Space SystemsGNC algorithms designSoftware safety assuranceNetwork topologySoftware requirements managementSoft skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas

A minimum of 15 years with a Bachelor's degree, or 12 years with a Master's degree

Proven track-record of working with space hardware and/or flight software systems, starting from conceptual designs and tradeoffs through detailed design, development, manufacture, integration, test, deployment, and operations

Insatiable curiosity and a demonstrated ability to learn and work independently

Proficiency in C/C++

Ability to obtain and maintain a Government security clearance

US Citizenship is required