Flight Software Engineer, Spacecraft Systems

MDA; Ville de Richmond; On-site; CAD 86,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MDA Space is seeking a skilled Flight Software Engineer to support mission-critical software on CHORUS or similar satellite programs. The role involves collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to define requirements, integrate flight software with hardware, and participate in verification and testing across spacecraft and ground segments.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in flight software, strong embedded systems experience, and a solid background in real-time OS and interfaces.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education/experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working with Flight Software.
• Development of one or more the following: spacecraft platform or payload flight software, mission critical software, embedded software.
• Development and/or use of Command and Control, Monitoring and Control, or Communications systems.
• Development of software with significant resource constraints (processor speed, memory, communication capacities limited relative to conventional host environments).
• Familiarity with real-time operating systems or kernels (commercial products or custom).
• Experience with spacecraft, bus (platform), or payload Assembly, Integration, and Testing.
• Requirements analysis, specification, and verification.
• Specification of interfaces, including but not limited to command and telemetry messaging.
• Estimation/analysis of resource budgets and Technical Performance Measures
• Trouble-shooting of complex systems.
• Data analysis and reduction.
• Have an understanding of different types of engineering lifecycle as applicable from large complex programs to software development.
• Familiarity with software development methodology
• Be able to work flexibly and manage multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and customer interaction skills.
• Have a team-friendly attitude and willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Provide software expertise to supplement other specialties (electrical, mechanical, operations etc.) in a mission team.
• Performing technical tasks, such as operational analyses and trade-off studies, to define requirements and design at mission, system, and subsystem levels.
• Creating and contributing to deliverable documents such as operational concepts, requirements specifications, interface control documents, and engineering plans.
• Presenting design proposals, plans, and reports in clear, complete, concise and non-ambiguous terms.
• Developing and/or reviewing flight software, subsystem, and spacecraft test plans and procedures.
• Participate as an integrated team member with vendor flight software development and Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT) teams.
• Integrating flight software with flight hardware, testing and troubleshooting.
• Formal acceptance testing of flight software.
• Supporting integration and verification activities of the overall Spacecraft, Ground Segment, and Mission.
• Frequent travel within Canada to vendor and MDA sites.

Skills

Flight Software

RTOS

Embedded Software

Spacecraft Testing

Requirements Analysis

C/C++

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

Computer Engineering

Job description

MDA Space is seeking a skilled Flight Software Engineer to support mission-critical software on CHORUS or similar satellite programs. The role involves collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to define requirements, integrate flight software with hardware, and participate in verification and testing across spacecraft and ground segments.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in flight software, strong embedded systems experience, and a solid background in real-time OS and interfaces.