[Hiring] Senior Software 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 software engineer to develop spacecraft flight software. We're looking for candidates who can bring exceptional programming skills and experience in embedded software to the team.

Position Responsibilities:

• The Software Engineer's primary responsibility will be contributing to the development 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.
• Support complex assignments under the leadership of the Software Engineering Manager.

Flight Software - 75%

• 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 tests at the unit, module, subsystem, and platform level.
• Work with manufacturing engineers to support installation onto the hardware-in-the-loop test environment and eventual flight hardware.
• Participate in anomaly resolution activities and patch existing flight software.

Systems Modeling - 15%

• Contribute to the development of systems- and mission-level modeling and simulation tools.
• Develop software models of payloads for ground testing.
• Support development of software model of satellite platform, particularly ensuring accurate representation of the 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: Masters in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas.
• A minimum of 8 years with a bachelor's degree, or 6 years 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.

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.
  • Device driver development and 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

• Competitive compensation and superior employee benefits.
• Commitment to fostering individual career growth.

Company Description

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc offers advanced solutions to meet the most complex U.S. defense, security, space, and intelligence requirements. Celebrating over 50 years in the US, we remain a trusted government partner, leveraging world-class satellite, laser communication, rotor and fixed wing solutions to help our national security, defense and space focused customers meet their missions.

Airbus U.S. looks to employ a commitment driven team, dedicated to enabling our customer's mission success. We are committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment and a welcoming and engaging staff.