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Staff Software Engineer Clearance, Flight Software

Muonspace · Northern VA · On-site

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About Muonspace

Design, build, and operate mission-optimized satellite constellations with Muon Space. Backed by Air Street.

About the role

Muon seeks a Flight Software Engineer to join our satellite flight software team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated versatile software developer with significant previous experience developing robust bare-metal / RTOS embedded devices or appliances. In this role, you will design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on our orbiting satellites. This role may be remote or located at our headquarters in San Jose, California.

What they're looking for

  • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
  • 7+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment
  • Strong C/C++ programming, with some practical familiarity of other languages
  • Great embedded systems fundamentals: resource-efficient design, low-level drivers, bit manipulation, responsive software and IRQ handling, RTOS frameworks, I/O and communication buses
  • Integration and control of external hardware devices
  • Read and understand hardware data sheets
More about this role

Muon seeks a Flight Software Engineer to join our satellite flight software team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated versatile software developer with significant previous experience developing robust bare-metal / RTOS embedded devices or appliances. In this role, you will design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on our orbiting satellites. This role may be remote or located at our headquarters in San Jose, California.

  • Integral member of the team defining and building Muon’s satellite bus and payload platform
  • Translate concepts and requirements into design and working implementations, supporting through to on-orbit operations
  • Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment that runs in our satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs.
  • Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for our software foundation
  • Provide technical leadership to key projects, organizing cross-functional teams to deliver mission critical capabilities
  • Develop application, platform, and driver functionality in our flight software environment and teach others how to use it
  • Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems...

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