Satellite Ground Software Engineer — Mission Control

Boeing; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, seeks a Ground Software Engineer to maintain and develop software for command and control of satellites. You will write requirements, decompose them into roadmaps, and test in collaboration with end users.

You will improve legacy software using modern frameworks and perform root cause analysis to implement fixes for users of your team’s products. The role involves working onsite, collaborating with operations, spacecraft engineers, cybersecurity

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience designing and developing software in a production environment.
• Demonstrated experience writing scripts and backend software applications.
• Must be able to obtain a US Citizenship and security clearance (Final/Prestart or Interim/Final).

Responsibilities

• Leads the design, development, integration, testing, and delivery of large-scale ground software and mission control systems.
• Interacts with Millennium staff to support testing on components, subsystems, and spacecraft in test configurations.
• Integrates Millennium software applications into Government-furnished software and infrastructure.
• Executes integrated system test events bridging Millennium-developed products and Government-furnished systems.
• Implements mission data processing applications into existing systems to support payloads and end data users.
• Supports software testing and installation in classified environments.
• Guides junior developers through development tasks and troubleshooting exercises.
• Plans and executes validation/verification testing.
• Contributes to ground software or tool development by completing larger feature requests and ownership of larger modules.

Skills

Software development

Scripting

US Citizenship

US Security Clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/AE

Job description

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, seeks a Ground Software Engineer to maintain and develop software for command and control of satellites. You will write requirements, decompose them into roadmaps, and test in collaboration with end users.

You will improve legacy software using modern frameworks and perform root cause analysis to implement fixes for users of your team’s products. The role involves working onsite, collaborating with operations, spacecraft engineers, cybersecurity