# Flight Software Engineer

About EraDrive EraDrive builds autonomy software and hardware that let spacecraft see, decide, and act with minimal human supervision. Our software is already flying on multiple satellites. Era-Node is our autonomous software+hardware payload for optical positioning, navigation and timing, and we are growing the team that will build its flight software. The role You will own the architecture, implementation, and verification of Era-Node’s flight software. You will work closely with GNC engineers and embedded software engineers and you will be the technical authority on how the flight software is structured, built, tested, and updated. What you will do Define the flight software architecture, including the framework or executive it is built on, and document the reasoning Design the core services: command and telemetry, data management, event and message handling, timing, and health monitoring Design and implement fault detection, isolation, and recovery procedures, including mode management and safe-mode behavior Define and maintain interface control documents for Era-Node’s integration with the host spacecraft and onboard avionics Maintain the continuous integration pipeline an

- **Id**: 3847683
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/eradrive-flight-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Palo Alto, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T23:17:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T23:19:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2539
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space Services, Avionics & Flight Control

## Company

- **Id**: 3784512
- **Name**: EraDrive
- **Domain**: eradrive.space
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/eradrive2025san-franciscousaactive>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CCSDS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T01:24:14Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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