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We're looking for candidates who can bring exceptional programming skills and experience in embedded software development and testing to the team.\nPosition Responsibilities:\nThe Software Engineer's primary responsibility will be contributing to the development and testing of our satellite flight software. This engineer will be involved in the full lifecycle of flight software development, from requirements definition through operations. However, because we are a small team where each person takes on many roles, this engineer will also contribute to mission concept development, in-house modeling and simulation capabilities, and proposal writing. Being at the cutting edge of space technology, we need someone who is eager to learn, grow, and take on new and potentially unfamiliar challenges. There is no shortage of fascinating problems to solve.\nThe Software Engineer will provide autonomous support of complex assignments, under the leadership of the Software Team Lead and Software Engineering Manager. The Software Engineer will have project and subject matter responsibility and authority.\nFlight Software 45%\nUpgrade existing flight software for new missions.\nContribute to the development of new satellite flight software for our satellite platforms.\nDevelop in-house tools to analyze flight software performance and assess its compatibility with new mission and conops.\nDevelop and execute flight software verification and validation tests at the unit, module, subsystem, and platform level.\nWork with manufacturing engineers to support installation onto the hardware-in-the-loop test environments and eventual flight hardware.\nParticipate in anomaly resolution activities and patch existing flight software.\nDevelop, integrate, and test flight software applications using spacecraft flight software frameworks such as NASA's Core Flight System (cFS).\nContribute to the design, integration, and maintenance of reusable flight software components, messaging architectures, and command and telemetry interfaces.\nSupport software integration activities across spacecraft subsystems, flight computers, payloads, and ground systems.\nSoftware Integration and Test 45%\nDevelop and execute FSW verifications tests using both proprietary satellite digital twin software and a Hardware in the Loop (HIL) FlatSat.\nEstablish and document test methodologies and descriptions to test compliance with customer-based requirements.\nDevelop and implement software and tools for ground support equipment to test and validate flight software.\nContribute to document management, including versioning, bug reporting, and test plan documentation.\nOversee and conduct official validation tests.\nDevelop and execute integration and verification testing of cFS-based flight software within simulation, FlatSat, and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) environments.\nSupport end-to-end validation of command, telemetry, fault management, and autonomous spacecraft operations software.\nSystems Modeling 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