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Form of workAre you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you! We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA's pursuits in deep space exploration. Jacobs is NASA's largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States. We have an exciting opportunity for an Orion Flight Software Unit Test Engineer to join the team with our Engineering Division.
The Orion Flight Software Unit Test Engineer will: -
Collaborate with the software development team
- Focus on taking a formal Unit Test Plan for the Orion Flight Software and creating a GoogleTest implementation
- Determine if issues are related to GoogleTest Framework or flight code
- Run GoogleTest suite after writing the tests and debug issues until the code runs properly successfully completes
- Responsible for doing code reviews of C/C++ code to spot errors in the logic of the code
- Work in an Agile, fast-paced environment
- Remote work location available, however, quarterly travel to Houston and/or Denver for a week may be required
- Perform other duties as requested or required by management
Requisition Qualifications: This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.
- Typically requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent certification in a related area and a minimum of 5 years of experience in the field or in a related area
- Experience writing and executing Unit Tests on the Google Test Framework
- Familiarity with GMock to perform tasks as a method of isolating the unit under test (UUT)
- Creativity is required as the code is sometimes written in such a way as to make Unit Testing difficult
- Proficiency with C/C++ coding and experience testing C/C++ classes and their associated methods
- Experience with agile software development and tools including Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, git, slack, SharePoint
- Excellent communication, negotiation and coordination skills and strong customer service attitude
- Self-starter and able to take initiative and work with little direction
- Can understand and absorb new concepts quickly
Requisition Preferences:
- Prior background in space or aerospace software is a plus
- Experience working as part of an Integrated Product Team to develop and test safety-critical software
- Experience with highly autonomous systems
- Experience developing software across the full development life cycle
- Knowledge of the NASA Gateway Spacecraft systems and software
- Experience with NPR 7150.2 and other NASA software and systems development standards
