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Maxar Space is currently seeking a Principal Flight Software Engineer with embedded experience to join our team in Westminster, CO or San Jose, CA or Remote. In this role, you will work on a challenging project to launch the Power Propulsion Element to the moon or work on a new product line.
Life with Us
Your Project: In this role, you will be responsible for applying advanced technical skillsets with C/C++ for embedded systems. Your primary responsibility will be to generate code, but you will also be intimately involved in design, testing, debugging, integrating, and operational testing.
Your Career: We're very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members with the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your manager, the Manager of Software Engineering out of our office in San Jose, CA, to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.
What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.
What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues):
Minimum requirements for this position:
These skills would be amazing:
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Our salary ranges are market-driven and set to allow for flexibility. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidate's unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:
$157,000.00 - $263,000.00 annually.
Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.
Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Maxar Space is currently seeking a Principal Flight Software Engineer with embedded experience to join our team in Westminster, CO or San Jose, CA or Remote. In this role, you will work on a challenging project to launch the Power Propulsion Element to the moon or work on a new product line.
Life with Us
Your Project: In this role, you will be responsible for applying advanced technical skillsets with C/C++ for embedded systems. Your primary responsibility will be to generate code, but you will also be intimately involved in design, testing, debugging, integrating, and operational testing.
Your Career: We're very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members with the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your manager, the Manager of Software Engineering out of our office in San Jose, CA, to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.
What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.
What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues):
- Develop, document and maintain architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for software systems
- Develop and maintain code, and integrate software components into a fully-functional software system, specifically for Command and Data Handling, Thermal, Battery and Fault Detections and Recovery
- Develop, select, tailor, and deploy software processes, tools and metrics
- Serve as a subject matter expert for software domains, processes and system-specific issues
Minimum requirements for this position:
- Must be authorized to work in the United States and must able to obtain a security clearance if required.
- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, computer science, or related field. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
- Minimum of 8 years of software development experience
- Previous experience in agile software development and as a software subject matter expert
- Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment with hands-off, remote management
- Expert embedded C++ programing skills
- Experience with multicore-processor architecture
- Experience with embedded Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS) concepts, VxWorks and/or GreenHills and/or Real Time Linux
- Experience with industry standard development processes NASA NPR-7150.2B/C and/or CMMI level 2/3
- Experience on software safety and hazard analysis
These skills would be amazing:
- At least 15 years of embedded programming
- Master's degree or PhD in a related field
- Understand NASA cFS system and subsystems and have equivalent development experience on modular Flight Software architectures
- Experience on SpaceWire (SpW) and/or Time Triggered Ethernet architectures
- Experience on complex communication system design on Intellectual Property (IP), Council for Foreign and Defense Politics (CFDP) and Consultative Committee for Space Data System (CCSDS) protocols
- Experience with large-scale satellite software development projects
#LI-KG1
Our salary ranges are market-driven and set to allow for flexibility. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidate's unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:
$157,000.00 - $263,000.00 annually.
Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.
Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
