Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer — Remote

airbusspaceanddefense; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbus U.S. seeks a Sr. Software Engineer to develop spacecraft flight software with strong C/C++ and embedded skills. You will contribute to requirements, design, testing, and operations across the full lifecycle, including modeling, simulation, and proposal support.

The role involves upgrading software for new missions, building in-house tools, and collaborating in hardware-in-the-loop environments; travel is occasional and citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM or related fields; Master’s preferred.
• Proven track-record with aerospace hardware/software lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop satellite flight software across the full lifecycle from requirements through operations.
• Contribute to mission concept development, modeling and simulation, and proposals.
• Upgrade and test flight software; develop in-house tools for performance analysis.
• Collaborate with manufacturing for hardware-in-the-loop testing and deployment.
• Support anomaly resolution and patching of flight software.

Skills

C/C++

Embedded software development

RTOS programming

Device driver development

Cybersecurity

GNC algorithms

Software safety assurance

Hardware-in-the-loop

Software requirements management

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's in STEM

Job description

Airbus U.S. seeks a Sr. Software Engineer to develop spacecraft flight software with strong C/C++ and embedded skills. You will contribute to requirements, design, testing, and operations across the full lifecycle, including modeling, simulation, and proposal support.

The role involves upgrading software for new missions, building in-house tools, and collaborating in hardware-in-the-loop environments; travel is occasional and citizenship is required.