Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer — Satellite

Muon Space; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Unlimited sick time

Parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space seeks a Flight Software Engineer to join our satellite flight software team in San Jose, CA. You will design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on our orbiting satellites.

In this role, you will work with ARM Cortex-M based systems, collaborate with hardware and software teams, and contribute to end-to-end flight software from concept to on-orbit operations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment.
• Strong C/C++ programming with some familiarity of other languages.
• Integration and control of external hardware devices.
• Read and understand hardware data sheets.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and build Muon’s satellite bus platform.
• Translate concepts and requirements into design and working implementations.
• Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment for flight systems.
• Evaluate and select technologies for software foundation.
• Write application, platform, and driver functionality for flight software.
• Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in software and hardware.
• Collaborate with hardware team on Muon hardware bring-up.
• Collaborate on flight software architecture and tooling.
• Develop software and hardware-in-the-loop test strategies.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Embedded systems

Read hardware datasheets

Excellent communication

Hardware integration

RTOS familiarity

Education

B.S./M.S./Ph.D. in CS/EE

Tools

Embedded Linux

Linux development environment

FPGA

HW design

Cloud/server infrastructure

RF communication systems

Job description

Muon Space seeks a Flight Software Engineer to join our satellite flight software team in San Jose, CA. You will design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on our orbiting satellites.

In this role, you will work with ARM Cortex-M based systems, collaborate with hardware and software teams, and contribute to end-to-end flight software from concept to on-orbit operations.