Staff Flight Software Engineer – Embedded / ADCS (Remote)

BlackSky; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

BlackSky seeks a Staff Flight Software Engineer in Seattle to lead design, development, and technical leadership for imaging payload and ADCS subsystems, while contributing to requirements and testing.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, mentor peers, and help deliver mission‑critical software across programs. A Tukwila, WA location is preferred with partial remote options; US citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• At least 10 years of experience delivering and maintaining commercial/embedded software in a production environment.
• Expertise in engineering clean and maintainable C/C++ and Python code.
• Expertise in embedded systems, ideally in Embedded Linux including related build systems (Buildroot, Yocto, etc.).
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products on time and on budget.
• Outstanding root cause analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work across teams, skill sets, communication in a diverse environment.
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision.
• Due to program requirements, this role requires US-born citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise for ADCS and imaging payload subsystem software design and development.
• Drive work to timely completion using task management tools like Jira in an Agile-like environment; participate and lead in status and standup meetings, sprint planning, tasking, etc.
• Collaborate with other ESG software team members and other cross‑functional engineers from multiple disciplines to deliver mission‑critical software features and bugfixes that are on‑time and defect free.
• Ensure that adequate documentation, test, inspection, and analysis is delivered and performed to verify compliance with requirements and other goals.
• Assist with Systems Engineering with requirements development and management.
• Execute and provide feedback for flight software design, development, unit tests and releases processes.
• Other job‑related duties as assigned.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Embedded systems

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Buildroot

Yocto

Jira

u-boot

Job description

BlackSky seeks a Staff Flight Software Engineer in Seattle to lead design, development, and technical leadership for imaging payload and ADCS subsystems, while contributing to requirements and testing.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, mentor peers, and help deliver mission‑critical software across programs. A Tukwila, WA location is preferred with partial remote options; US citizenship is required.