Robotics Systems Engineer II — Flight-SWIL & Simulation

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; California; On-site; USD 122,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Flexible schedule

Parental leave

Job summary

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, seeks a Robotics Systems Engineer II to advance software verification, testing, and flight-software-in-the-loop simulation for space robotics. You will work within the Robotic Operations and Tools Group to develop algorithms and operator tools for aerospace and planetary robotics.

The role emphasizes developing algorithms for flight software validation and enabling safe pre-flight command verification on robotic systems, with an energetic

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in CS/CE or related with minimum 3 years experience; Master’s with 1 year; Ph.D. in related area.
• Hands-on experience in software engineering, simulation, or robotics.
• Exposure to software development in simulation, flight-software-in-the-loop testing, or command sequence verification and validation.
• Familiarity with fault-tolerance and testing of flight software.

Responsibilities

• Develop simulation software for Moon Base program.
• Maintain and develop operation tools for space robots.
• Software and hardware integration to develop space robots.
• Fuzz testing for software.

Skills

C++

Python

Rust

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering

Master’s degree in related discipline (optional)

PhD in related discipline (optional)

Tools

CI/CD

Real-time/embedded systems

Job description

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, seeks a Robotics Systems Engineer II to advance software verification, testing, and flight-software-in-the-loop simulation for space robotics. You will work within the Robotic Operations and Tools Group to develop algorithms and operator tools for aerospace and planetary robotics.

The role emphasizes developing algorithms for flight software validation and enabling safe pre-flight command verification on robotic systems, with an energetic