Salary
≈ $45k – $103k per year (Estimated)
Location
Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan)
Seniority
Senior · 10+ years exp
Employment
Full-Time
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 2, 2026. ispace scores B on the Alion truth index.
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Ispace (TYO: 9348) is a global commercial lunar exploration and space infrastructure enterprise headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with regional subsidiaries operating in Luxembourg and the United States (Denver, Colorado). Founded in 2010 by CEO Takeshi Hakamada, the publicly traded company has raised over $200 million in private equity and government grants from investors including Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), Suzuki Motor, and Japan's Space Strategy Fund.
ispace is looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to develop our next generation ULTRA lunar lander.
Key Responsibilities
- Devlop embedded software system for spacecraft, including lander and other transportation system elements. Be responsible for the development of boards and other components by hardware engineering and test tools for integrations of all other components, and setting up the environment for development.
- Lead the identification of the software requirement from system level requirement, and break down them to software design, archicture and implementation to satisfy the requirements.
- Collaborate with other sub system engineers such as avionics, ground segment, system engineers to identify software architecture design, some component or technology selection, including make or buy decisions, and on avionics and propulsion with other design and analysis team members as appropriate
- Design the software archicture with DSP/Microprocessor selection, and develop BSP ( Board Support Package ) and evaluate the feasibility of new design to meet the requirement
- Manage schedules, costs and quality on each function assigned to meet requirements. Also break down functions of components to tasks and track status and issues. Report all of them to the lead or manager
- Lead the software engineers by any appropriate modern methods of development to construct the high reliability and quality, and save resources from architcture point of view
- Design, coding, review, integration, test, support and enhance software solutions for assigned spacecraft such as attitude or motion control, command, communication, power and data management and fault protection. Also describe the documentations and keep updating them at all phases
- Lead the design activties for current and future spacecraft software achitcture with extenal ( component supplier ) and internal stakeholders ( Software engineers and other subsystem engineers ) In addition, lead the new functions design and problem analysis from architecture point of view with strong accountablity.
- 着陸船やその他の輸送システム要素を含む、宇宙船用組み込みソフトウェア開発。
- システムレベルからソフトウェア要件の特定を主導。要件を満たすソフトウェア設計、アーキテクチャ、および実装に落とし込む。
- アビオニクス、地上セグメント、システムエンジニアなどの他のサブシステムエンジニアと協力し、ソフトウェアアーキテクチャの設計、意思決定や購入の決定を含むコンポーネントまたはテクノロジーの選択など他の設計および分析チームのメンバーと適切に推進、遂行する。
- DSP /マイクロプロセッサを選択してソフトウェアアーキテクチャを設計、BSPを開発し、要件を満たす設計の実現可能性を評価する。
- スケジュール、コスト、および品質を適切に管理する。また、コンポーネントの機能をタスクに分解し、ステータスと問題を追跡し、リードやマネージャーと適宜共有、報告する。
- 高い信頼性、品質を構築しリソースを節約しながら、最適で最新の開発方法を用いてソフトウェアエンジニアをリードする。
- 宇宙船のモーションコントロール、コマンド、通信、電力およびデータ管理、故障保護などにかかわるソフトウェアソリューションの設計、コーディング、レビュー、統合、テスト、サポート、および強化。また、それらに関するドキュメントについて説明し、各フェーズで適宜更新する。
- 社内外の関係者との協業をリードし、宇宙船のソフトウエアアーキテクチャーのデザインを決定する。また、システムレベルでの新規機能追加、及び問題解析について、強固なリーダーシップとアカウンタビリティをもって対応する。
Basic Qualification
- 10+ years of experience designing and coding embedded software for high-reliability applications
- Strong leadership and communication skill not only with software engineers, but also with other subsystem engineers and customers.
- Deep understanding of realtime OS and embedded software.
- Experience with bus, communication, and networking protocols (RS-422, PCI, Ethernet, SpaceWire and etc.)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Proficient in C programming language
- Business level English or Business level Japanese
- 高信頼性を有するアプリケーション向け組み込みソフトウェア設計とコーディングの経験10年以上
- インターナル、エクスターナル含む関係者、顧客との確かなコミュニケーションスキル、リーダーシップ
- リアルタイムOSと組み込みソフトウェアへの深い理解
- バス、通信、およびネットワークプロトコル(RS-422、PCI、イーサネット、SpaceWireなど)の経験
- コンピュータサイエンスの学士号または同等の学位
- Cプログラミング言語に堪能
- 積極的な態度、自己主導、スタートアップ環境での仕事や多様性への関心
- 新しいテクノロジーに挑戦する意欲
- ビジネスレベルの英語、または、ビジネスレベルの日本語
Preferred Qualifications
- experience of Aerospace, or other industries which requires her high realiability embedded software system
- 5+ experience of Linux, Zephyr or other Real Time OS development environment
- 5+ experience of the software development with Git.
- 5+ experience of various bench equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, meters)
- 5+ experience of CI (Continuous Integration)
- 5+ years of experience of software team lead or architect.
- 航空宇宙、自動車、またはその他の業界で経験
- Linux、Zephyrまたはその他のリアルタイムOS開発環境の経験5年以上
- Gitを使用したソフトウェア開発の経験5年以上
- さまざまなベンチ機器(オシロスコープ、ロジックアナライザー、メーター)の経験5年以上
- CI (Continuous Integration)の経験5年以上
- ソフトウェアチームリーダーもしくはアキテクト経験5年以上
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