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ID #21689022
State Colorado
City Westminster
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source MAXAR Technologies
Showed 2021-10-25
Date 2021-10-24
Deadline 2021-12-22
Category Software/QA/DBA/etc
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Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer

Colorado, Westminster, 80030 Westminster USA

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Maxar is currently seeking a Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineers to join our team in Westminster, CO. We are also open to remote locations. In this role, you will work on a variety of challenging projects including NASA's On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM-1) system, and the Power Propulsion Element.

Life with Us

Your Project: You will be responsible for applying advanced technical skillsets with C/C and ADA software development for embedded systems. Your primary responsibility will be to generate code, but you will also be intimately involved in testing, debugging, integration, and operational testing.

Your Career: We are very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members with the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your manager, or a mentor, to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.

What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.

What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues):
  • You will write software for embedded Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS)
  • Develop, document and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software systems
  • Develop software verification plans, unit level and open loop test suites, and procedures, executing the test procedures and documenting test results to ensure software system requirements are met
  • Perform software product life cycle management
  • Develop, select, tailor and deploy software processes, tools and metrics
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for software domains, processes and system-specific issues
  • Mentor team members

Minimum requirements for this position:
  • Must be a U.S. citizen and be willing and able to obtain Secret security clearance
  • Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, or related field. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
  • Minimum of 8 years of software development experience
  • Expert embedded C programing skills on multicore-processor architecture
  • Must have strong experience in one of the following areas:
    • Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC). Ability to read flows, understand control laws, able to convert MATLAB code to C or Ada
    • Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR)
    • Thermal systems
    • Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) System on a Chip (Soc). DoD or NASA background preferred as would be primarily for USG contracts
    • Command and telemetry processing
    • Embedded systems architecture
    • Infrastructure - I/O, Operating systems, drivers, hardware interfaces
These skills would be amazing:
  • Master's degree or PhD in a related field
  • VxWorks or similar RTOS experience
  • Experience on SpaceWire (SpW) and Time Triggered Ethernet (TTE) architectures
  • Experience with Ada programming language
  • Experience with satellite software development from inception to launch
  • Experience with large-scale satellite software development projects
  • Experience with CMMI-3 or other structured software development frameworks
  • Ability to work in a highly-collaborative environment with hands-off, remote management

Pr oof of vaccination is required for this position.

The compensation range for this position is $108,000 to $180,000 annually, dependent on skills and experience. This position is also eligible for a bonus plan.

Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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