The end-to-end space company delivering reliable launch services, spacecraft, satellite components. Backed by Bessemer and Khosla.
About the role
Based out of our site in Littleton, Colorado, we are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Software Engineer to serve as the Chief Software Engineer for a major constellation program. In this pivotal role, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, reliable, and mission-critical software systems for space-based applications.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline
- 12+ years of professional software development experience, including embedded systems and ground software
- Proven expertise in architecting scalable and reliable software systems for aerospace or defense applications
- Proficiency in C and C++ for embedded software development and python for testing
- Experience with both DIO and AIO (Digital and Analog Inputs and Outputs)
- Experience with integrating hardware, including implementing ICDs, and debugging
More about this role
Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine. Come shape the future with us.
Rocket Lab’s Space Systems team is responsible for every satellite and satellite component made by Rocket Lab: from complete satellites destined for missions to the Moon and Mars, to the individual components and subsystems that make up a satellite like solar panels, flight software, reaction wheels and star trackers, separation systems, radios, and more. Our Space Systems team is made up of engineers, technicians, and designers who design, create, and put together our own satellites for missions across the commercial, government, and defense sectors, or who build and assemble satellite hardware and software that supports other satellite missions.
Based out of our site in Littleton, Colorado, we are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Software Engineer to serve as the Chief Software Engineer for a major constellation program. In this pivotal role, you...
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