Platform Engineer II

🔥 13 hours ago

⛰️ Colorado, Texas – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Firefly Aerospace

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2017

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🚀 Aerospace

Manufacturing • Logistics • Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace is a space transportation company specializing in developing launch vehicles and lunar landers. They offer innovative and affordable launch options, including the Alpha small-lift vehicle and Blue Ghost lander, facilitating payload delivery to the Moon and beyond. Firefly Aerospace aims to provide end-to-end space transportation solutions and has made significant achievements such as landing on the Moon and securing missions for major organizations like NASA and the U. S. Space Force.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, integrate, and test critical features within the onboard C++ software stack • Build and maintain core components of the Sol3 SDK, including reusable C++ libraries, APIs, tools, and abstractions used across engineering teams • Write systems software involving inter-process communication, device and sensor interfaces, and networking • Develop and optimize multithreaded, low-latency software for constrained embedded environments • Integrate cameras, sensors, heterogeneous compute platforms, and networking interfaces into reliable end-to-end systems • Partner with hardware teams to test user flows and implement SDK-integrable solutions • Integrate perception algorithms into Sol3 SDK core components and define maintainable interfaces between algorithmic and platform code • Develop onboard applications supporting perception, navigation, and mission operations • Support software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, spacecraft integration, mission simulation, and flight operations activities • Diagnose system-level issues across software, firmware, and hardware • Contribute to architectural decisions, conduct technical reviews, and mentor other engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field; equivalent practical experience may be considered • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience developing complex production systems • Experience developing and debugging software in embedded Linux environments and integrating software with hardware, sensors, and external systems • Strong proficiency in modern C++, including multithreading, memory management, debugging, and performance optimization • Experience writing general systems software: IPC mechanisms, hardware buses and sensor interfaces (e.g., GMSL, I2C, SPI), and network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP) • Experience designing reusable libraries, APIs, platform services, or SDK components used across engineering teams • Strong understanding of software architecture, algorithms, automated testing, and maintainable software design • Demonstrated ability to resolve complex system-level issues and communicate effectively across software, algorithm, hardware, and systems engineering teams • U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, protected individual status, or eligibility to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations under ITAR • Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (desired) • Experience developing software or firmware for spacecraft, aerospace, robotics, autonomous vehicles, defense systems, or other mission-critical applications (desired) • Experience integrating cameras or perception sensors with embedded Linux, GPUs, FPGAs, or other heterogeneous compute platforms (desired) • Familiarity with computer vision, visual navigation, state estimation, localization, mapping, or perception pipelines (desired) • Experience with 3D geometry, coordinate transformations, camera models, or spatial data structures (desired) • Proficiency in Python for tooling, automation, and testing (desired) • Experience with flight software interfaces, telemetry and commanding, software- or hardware-in-the-loop testing, vehicle integration, or mission operations (desired)

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles • Parental leave • Educational reimbursement • Short term disability • Flexible PTO options