Flight Software Engineer

🕒 June 13

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Red Canyon Engineering & Software is a company that develops cutting-edge technology to help humankind explore space and other planets, as well as to advance renewable resources on Earth and rejuvenate low-income areas through the HUBZone program. The company is involved in important missions such as exploring Jupiter’s poles, the next Mars lander, asteroid sample return missions, and building human spacecraft for the Moon and Mars. Their clients include leading government agencies like NASA, NOAA, and DOD, along with top aerospace and technology companies such as SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell. Red Canyon attracts top engineers passionate about space exploration and technological advancements.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the development and testing of our satellite flight software. • Involved in the full lifecycle of flight software development, from requirements definition through operations. • Contribute to mission concept development, in-house modeling and simulation capabilities, and proposal writing. • Provide autonomous support of complex assignments, under the leadership of the Software Team Lead and Software Engineering Manager. • Upgrade existing flight software for new missions. • Develop in-house tools to analyze flight software performance and assess compatibility with new mission and conops. • Develop and execute flight software verification and validation tests at various levels. • Work with manufacturing engineers to support installation onto test environments and eventual flight hardware. • Participate in anomaly resolution activities and patch existing flight software. • Develop, integrate, and test flight software applications using spacecraft flight software frameworks such as NASA's Core Flight System (cFS).

🎯 Requirements

• Experience developing spacecraft flight software (FSW) for satellites, spacecraft, launch vehicles, or autonomous aerospace systems. • Experience with NASA Core Flight System (cFS) and/or other spacecraft flight software architectures. • Experience with real-time operating systems such as RTEMS, VxWorks, Integrity, or embedded Linux. • Familiarity with spacecraft command and telemetry systems, CCSDS protocols, fault management, and onboard autonomy. • Experience with Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), FlatSat, digital twin, or spacecraft integration and test environments. • Experience supporting spacecraft mission operations, anomaly resolution, and on-orbit software maintenance. • Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas. • A minimum of 3 years with a Bachelor's degree, or 1 year with a Master's degree. • Proven track-record of working with aerospace hardware and/or software systems, starting from conceptual designs and tradeoffs through detailed design, development, manufacture, integration, test, deployment, and operations. • Proficiency in C/C++.

🏖️ Benefits

• US Citizenship.

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