Autonomous Spacecraft Flight Software Engineer

EVONA; England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

EVONA is working with an ambitious space technology company developing autonomous spacecraft capabilities, and we're looking for a Flight Software Engineer to join their growing avionics team. You will develop deterministic, safety-critical flight software for autonomous spacecraft, working closely with avionics, autonomy and hardware engineers to build, integrate and validate mission-critical systems.

You’ll join a fast-moving engineering team, delivering software for embedded,

Qualifications

• Embedded software experience with RTOS and/or Linux.
• Understanding of real-time and safety-critical software.
• Knowledge of FDIR, fault tolerance and error handling.
• Experience with multi-process architectures and IPC.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Developing flight software in C++.
• Building software for RTOS-based flight computers, including RTEMS or FreeRTOS.
• Implementing FDIR, fault-tolerant control and defensive programming.
• Developing software for embedded, resource-constrained systems.
• Integrating and testing flight software on representative spacecraft hardware.
• Debugging and performance characterisation.
• Working closely with multidisciplinary avionics, autonomy and hardware teams.

Skills

C++

RTOS

Linux

FDIR

Fault tolerance

IPC

Debugging

Multi-process architectures

Job description

EVONA is working with an ambitious space technology company developing autonomous spacecraft capabilities, and we're looking for a Flight Software Engineer to join their growing avionics team. You will develop deterministic, safety-critical flight software for autonomous spacecraft, working closely with avionics, autonomy and hardware engineers to build, integrate and validate mission-critical systems.

You’ll join a fast-moving engineering team, delivering software for embedded,