Onboard Software Solutions Engineer

Loft Orbital Solutions; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 328,000 - 615,000; Full time

Job summary

Loft Orbital Solutions is seeking a Flight Software/Software Integration Engineer to help streamline onboard software creation, integration, validation, and release. You will configure standard components for customer payloads, support deployment, and troubleshoot issues across programs.

You will own tools for creation, versioning, testing and release management, collaborating with Engineering and Satellite Operations to ensure rapid, reliable on-orbit deployments and robust test coverage.

Qualifications

• Must have experience with Python and C.
• Must understand CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, TeamCity, Travis CI).
• Experience with automated testing frameworks is required.
• Experience with data serialization formats (YAML, JSON).

Responsibilities

• Streamline creation, integration, validation and release of onboard software; improve test coverage and automate testing.
• Configure standard onboard software components for customer payloads; support deployment and troubleshooting.
• Own and evolve tools for onboard software creation, versioning, testing and release management.

Skills

Python

C

CI/CD

Automated testing

Troubleshooting

Tools

GitLab CI

TeamCity

Travis CI

Job description

Wanna Join the Adventure The Onboard Software Solutions Team is responsible for creating configuring and deploying all onboard software components dedicated to a program or mission. We configure and extend agnostic onboard software to fit a given satellite architecture and requirements and are responsible for the development end-to-end testing and release of that onboard software.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology helping build modern automated infrastructure bringing software and space together. As well as developing our future systems the role will also be working on real-time issues on live missions helping to solve problems as they occur.

About this Role:

• Streamline the creation integration validation and release of onboard software by improving test coverage automating testing and minimizing time from feature development to availability on-orbit.
• Configure standard onboard software components for customers payloads and support the deployment and troubleshooting internally and externally
• Own and evolve the tools for onboard software creation versioning testing and release management while providing transparent up-to-date status tracking for all stakeholders across programs and missions.
• Collaborate closely with the broader Engineering and Satellite Operations teams to ensure the rapid reliable and thoroughly tested deployment of onboard software for customers.

Must Haves:

• Experience in Python and C
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (gitlab-ci teamcity travis-ci)
• Automated testing frameworks
• Experience in data serialization/deserialization (yaml json cue)
• Previous experience as Flight Software Engineer or Software Integration Engineer or Software Test Engineer or Software Engineer with a focus on Automated Testing
• Ability to troubleshoot and effectively communicate issues and solutions

Nice to Haves:

• Experience in Embedded Linux Operation
• Experience in build systems (make cmake)
• Experience in Networking (UDP TCP IP)
• Experience in Software Integration - Making all the pieces work together
• Experience in or close to Satellite Operations

Orbitworks mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. Building on Loft Orbitals heritage Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.

Required Experience:

IC

Key Skills

• Organizational Management
• Presentation Skills
• Agile
• SAFe
• AWS
• Solution Architecture
• Conflict Management
• Data Management
• Scrum
• Team Management
• Pre-sales
• Management Consulting

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1