Senior Spacecraft Software Systems Engineer

Roman Health Pharmacy LLC; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 133,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Job summary

CesiumAstro is seeking a Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer - Software to translate system requirements into detailed software requirements and verification strategies for complex embedded systems. You will bridge Systems and Software Engineering, ensuring traceability, testability, and alignment with program objectives.

The role collaborates across systems, software, and hardware teams to plan development, integration, and verification activities, defining configurations and validating

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems/Software/Electrical Engineering or related field with 5-8 years of experience.
• Experience decomposing system requirements into software-level requirements.
• Experience creating verification plans, descriptions, procedures, or acceptance criteria.
• Strong understanding of embedded systems and software development lifecycles.
• Experience with hardware/software interfaces and communication protocols.

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer, mission, and system requirements and decompose into verifiable software requirements.
• Maintain traceability of software requirements to higher level system requirements and CONOPS.
• Collaborate with systems, software, and hardware teams to refine requirements for completeness and feasibility.
• Develop software verification approaches, including methods, levels, and acceptance criteria.
• Define verification configurations, hardware setups, software loads, firmware versions, and test environments.
• Support verification matrices, traceability matrices, and evidence packages.
• Mentor junior engineers on requirements quality, traceability, and verification planning.

Skills

Requirement decomposition

Verification planning

Systems engineering

Embedded systems

Interfacing

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering field

Tools

Python

C++

C

Java

Bash

Git

CI/CD

Linux

Windows

Unix

TCP/IP

UDP

Serial

USB

Ethernet

APIs

Job description

CesiumAstro is seeking a Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer - Software to translate system requirements into detailed software requirements and verification strategies for complex embedded systems. You will bridge Systems and Software Engineering, ensuring traceability, testability, and alignment with program objectives.

The role collaborates across systems, software, and hardware teams to plan development, integration, and verification activities, defining configurations and validating