Associate Flight Software Engineer

This position offers FULLY REMOTE opportunities for candidates across the United States. Preferred work locations: Arlington VA, Denver CO, Houston, TX or Merritt Island, FL.

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc offers advanced solutions to meet the most complex U.S. defense, security, space, and intelligence requirements. Celebrating over 50 years in the US, we remain a trusted government partner, leveraging world-class satellite, laser communication, rotor and fixed wing solutions to help our national security, defense and space focused customers meet their missions.

Airbus U.S. looks to employ a commitment driven team, dedicated to enabling our customer's mission success. We are committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment and a welcoming and engaging staff. With competitive compensation and superior employee benefits, as well as a commitment to fostering individual career growth, Airbus U.S. is the place where top talent wants to work.

Position Summary:

Airbus U.S. is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Associate Software Engineer to develop spacecraft flight software. We're looking for candidates who can bring exceptional programming skills and creativity to team.

Position Responsibilities:

The Associate Software Engineer's primary responsibility will be contributing to the development of Airbus U.S.'s satellite flight software. This engineer will be involved in the full lifecycle of flight software development, from requirements definition through operations. However, because we are a small team where each person takes on many roles, this engineer will also contribute to mission concept development, in-house modeling and simulation capabilities, and proposal writing. Being at the cutting edge of space technology, we need someone who is eager to learn, grow, and take on new and potentially unfamiliar challenges. There is no shortage of fascinating problems to solve.

The Associate Software Engineer will support moderate to complex assignments, under the leadership of the Software Engineering Manager and other senior Software Engineers.

Flight Software 75%

• 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 missions and conops
• 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

Roadmap Development 15%

• Support Airbus spacecraft development product roadmap: includes design adjustments, schedule, and cost targets aligned for future business captures.
• Support the definition of spacecraft customization process for customer mission needs.

Additional Responsibilities 10%

• 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

Qualified Experience / Skills / Training:

Education:

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

Experience:

• A minimum of 0 years with a Bachelor's degree
• Software integration and test in high reliability systems experience is highly desirable

Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities:

• Insatiable curiosity and a demonstrated ability to learn and work independently
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python
• Knowledge of one or more of the following:
  • Embedded software development (ARM 7 preferred)
  • BSP development
  • Device driver development and software/hardware interfaces (Ethernet/CAN/SpaceWire RMAP/1553/RS-422 preferred)
  • New board bring up
  • Real-time operating systems programming, debugging, and testing (RTEMS preferred)
  • Cybersecurity
  • GNC algorithms design, analysis, testing, and implementation
  • Functional validation of embedded software on hardware
  • Software safety assurance
  • Network topology and configuration
  • Simulators: numerical, emulator, and hardware in the loop
  • Software requirements and configuration management

Travel Required:

• Periodic travel (less than 20%) to Airbus U.S. facilities or partner companies.
• Occasional International travel to collaborate with European Airbus counterparts

Eligibility:

• US Citizenship required

Clearance:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government security clearance
• Active DoD security clearance at Secret or above highly desirable