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Muon Space · 3 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Flight Software

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$240K/yr - $270K/yr

10+ 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 Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development, integration, and testing of software and firmware for their orbiting satellites.

AerospaceInformation ServicesInformation Technology

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Leading member of the team defining and building Muon’s satellite bus platform

Define and architect design and execution against the basic concepts and requirements of our missions to get the write software and firmware on orbit

Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment that runs in our satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs

Guide evaluation and selection of technologies for our software foundation

Write application, platform, and driver functionality in our flight software environment and set the standards for how others use it

Build the architectural patterns, shared libraries, services and technical strategy documents that enable high-quality and high-velocity development of flight software

Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in both software and hardware

Collaborate with hardware team members on the design and bring up of Muon hardware

Align team roadmaps with product requirements and mission needs

Define metrics aligned with critical company goals and enable the team to achieve aggressive goals

Ensure effective software and hardware-in-the-loop test strategies

Mentor senior engineers

Qualification

C/C++ programmingEmbedded systemsRTOS frameworksIntegration of hardwareCommunication skillsRust experiencePython experienceLinux developmentFPGA experienceNetwork architecture

Required

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

10+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment

Strong C/C++ programming, with practical familiarity of other languages

Great embedded systems fundamentals: distributed system architecture, 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