Satellite Flight Software Engineer — TS/SCI Onsite

OMNI Consulting Solutions, LLC; Seal Beach (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Life Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer

Paid Time Off & Sick Leave

Company Sponsored Social Events

Job summary

OMNI Consulting Solutions is seeking a Satellite Flight Software Engineer to provide SETA support to a Government team delivering advanced national security space capabilities. The role focuses on onboard flight software, embedded systems, and assessment across architecture, development, integration, verification, and operations.

The candidate must have hands-on embedded/flight-software experience, evaluate source code/FPGA logic, and participate in test readiness and mission-support activities

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with a current polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent SETA support to Government stakeholders overseeing spacecraft flight-software and embedded-system development, integration, qualification, and operations.
• Assess flight-software architectures, source code, FPGA implementations, device drivers, board-support packages, hardware abstraction layers, and hardware/software interfaces.
• Review software requirements, designs, interface-control documents, code-review findings, FPGA artifacts, build and release products, test plans, procedures, results, discrepancy reports, and verification evidence.
• Evaluate command and telemetry processing, mode and state management, timekeeping, data handling, autonomy, redundancy management, fault detection and recovery, and spacecraft safe-mode behavior.
• Assess spacecraft processors, microcontrollers, FPGAs, memory, sensors, actuators, payload electronics, communication buses, and radiation-mitigation approaches.
• Support HIL and other integrated test activities, technical reviews, test-readiness reviews, qualification and acceptance testing, and operational-readiness assessments.
• Investigate integration failures, flight-software defects, spacecraft anomalies, and mission events; assess root cause, corrective actions, regression testing, and closure evidence.
• Monitor contractor execution, interfaces, dependencies, technical performance, schedules, and risks; identify issues early and recommend practical mitigation actions.
• Prepare concise engineering assessments, risk evaluations, briefings, and decision-support products for Government program and mission leadership.

Skills

C and C++ for embedded/realtime

Rust for embedded

VHDL or Verilog

Python scripting

Lab debugging equipment

Education

B.S. in Computer/Software/Electrical/Systems Eng or related STEM

M.S. in related field (7+ yrs exp)

9+ years total exp in onboard flight software or embedded software

Tools

JTAG

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Protocol analyzers

SpaceWire

CAN bus interfaces

Job description

OMNI Consulting Solutions is seeking a Satellite Flight Software Engineer to provide SETA support to a Government team delivering advanced national security space capabilities. The role focuses on onboard flight software, embedded systems, and assessment across architecture, development, integration, verification, and operations.

The candidate must have hands-on embedded/flight-software experience, evaluate source code/FPGA logic, and participate in test readiness and mission-support activities