Embedded Flight Software Engineer I

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; California; On-site; USD 97,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, seeks an Embedded Flight Software Engineer I for the Instrument Flight Software Group. You will implement and test software for spacecraft instruments, from low-level drivers to high-level behaviours, contributing to space missions and advanced experiments.

The role emphasizes real-time embedded software, collaboration with instrument engineers, and development within a mission-critical aerospace environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related technical discipline with a minimum of 1 year of related experience; Master’s degree in similar disciplines; or PhD in similar disciplines with zero years of related experience.
• Strong C/C++ programming skills
• Multi-threaded programming
• Coursework in operating systems, computer architecture, algorithms, and data structures
• Knowledge of real-time embedded software systems for mission-critical aerospace applications
• Developing embedded real-time application programs utilizing RTOS
• Developing device drivers and software/hardware interfaces for custom and commercial hardware
• Distributed computing and inter-process communication mechanisms in space-partitioned software architecture
• Communication buses and protocols: Space Wire, PCI/PCIe, UART, Ethernet
• Continues Integration, development flow, git flow process
• Internship or experience with significant C or C++ programming with embedded processors or CubeSats

Responsibilities

• Design and implement real-time flight software for science instruments
• Work with Instrument engineers to generate software requirements and design of flight software components
• Design software modules that implement functions of the flight system, interfaces, boot process, and fault protection
• Develop test plans, unit tests, regression tests and evaluate test results against simulators/testbeds
• Identify and troubleshoot technical issues with flight software in an integrated system
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of experienced flight software developers

Skills

C/C++ programming

Multi-threaded programming

Embedded systems

Inter-process communication

Git

RTOS

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Master’s or PhD in related disciplines

Tools

Git

Embedded drivers development

Job description

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, seeks an Embedded Flight Software Engineer I for the Instrument Flight Software Group. You will implement and test software for spacecraft instruments, from low-level drivers to high-level behaviours, contributing to space missions and advanced experiments.

The role emphasizes real-time embedded software, collaboration with instrument engineers, and development within a mission-critical aerospace environment.