[Hiring] Principal Software I&T Engineer @AIRBUS U.S. Space & Defense, Inc.

Role Description

This position offers FULLY REMOTE opportunities for candidates across the United States. Preferred work locations: Arlington VA, Denver CO, Houston, TX or Merritt Island, FL.

Airbus U.S. is looking for an enthusiastic and creative principal software engineer to develop and test spacecraft flight software. We're looking for candidates who can bring exceptional programming skills and experience in embedded software development and testing to the team.

Position Responsibilities:

• Contributing to the development and testing of Airbus U.S.'s 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.
• Have project and subject matter responsibility and authority.

Software Integration and Test - 60%

• Develop and execute FSW verifications tests using both proprietary satellite digital twin software and a Hardware in the Loop (HIL) FlatSat.
• Establish and document test methodologies and descriptions to test compliance with Airbus and customer-based requirements.
• Develop and implement software and tools for ground support equipment to test and validate flight software.
• Contribute to document management, including versioning, bug reporting, and test plan documentation.
• Oversee and conduct official validation tests.

Flight Software - 30%

• Upgrade existing flight software for new missions.
• Contribute to the development of new satellite flight software for Airbus U.S. satellite platforms.
• Develop in-house tools to analyze flight software performance and assess its compatibility with new mission and conops.
• Develop and execute flight software verification and validation tests at the unit, module, subsystem, and platform level.
• Work with manufacturing engineers to support installation onto the hardware-in-the-loop test environments and eventual flight hardware.
• Participate in anomaly resolution activities and patch existing flight software.

Additional Responsibilities - 10%

• Support working groups, both internal and with customers and/or vendors.
• Support proposal writing, new business.
• Assess the software impacts of new hardware, conops, and missions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.
• Preferred: Master's in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.
• A minimum of 15 years with a Bachelor's degree, or 12 years with a Master's degree.
• Proven track-record of working with space hardware and/or flight software systems, starting from conceptual designs and tradeoffs through detailed design, development, manufacture, integration, test, deployment, and operations.

Requirements

• Insatiable curiosity and a demonstrated ability to learn and work independently.
• Proficiency in C/C++.
• Expertise in one or more of the following:
  • Embedded software development and testing.
  • Test scripting (TCL/Python).
  • Device driver development and testing of software/hardware interfaces.
  • Real-time operating systems programming, debugging, and testing.
  • Cybersecurity.
  • GNC algorithms design, analysis, testing, and implementation.
  • Functional validation of embedded software on hardware.
  • Software safety assurance.
  • Network topology and configuration.
  • Simulators: numerical, emulator, and hardware in the loop.
  • Software requirements and configuration management.
• Periodic travel (less than 20%) to Airbus U.S. facilities or partner companies.
• Occasional International travel to collaborate with European Airbus counterparts.
• US Citizenship is required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government security clearance.
• Active DoD security clearance at Secret or above highly desirable.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity: Airbus provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetics, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
• Airbus complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
• This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, demotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, benefits, and training.