Embedded Flight Software Engineer I (Real-Time Space Systems)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory; United States; On-site; USD 97,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, seeks an Embedded Flight Software Engineer I for the Instrument Flight Software Group. You will implement and test real-time software for spacecraft instruments, from drivers to high-level behaviors, collaborating with engineers to meet mission requirements.

Responsibilities include designing real-time flight software components, building test plans, and debugging in an integrated system with a multi-disciplinary team.

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 for mission-critical aerospace applications
• Developing embedded real-time application programs utilizing RTOS
• Device driver and software/hardware interface development
• Distributed computing and IPC in space-partitioned software architectures
• Knowledge of Space Wire, PCI/PCIe, UART, Ethernet

Responsibilities

• Design and implement real-time flight software for science instruments
• Work with Instrument engineers to generate software requirements and design
• Create modules for flight system functions, interfaces, boot process, and DF/CS such as data handling, fault protection, thermal control
• Develop test plans, unit tests, and regression tests; evaluate results
• Run tests against simulators and testbeds
• Identify and troubleshoot issues in an integrated flight-software environment
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of experienced developers

Skills

C/C++ programming

Multithreading

Embedded RTOS

Device drivers

Inter-process IPC

Python

Git / CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's in CS/CE or related

Master’s or PhD (advantage)

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Linux

Job description

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, seeks an Embedded Flight Software Engineer I for the Instrument Flight Software Group. You will implement and test real-time software for spacecraft instruments, from drivers to high-level behaviors, collaborating with engineers to meet mission requirements.

Responsibilities include designing real-time flight software components, building test plans, and debugging in an integrated system with a multi-disciplinary team.