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SalaryAt Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations, allowing long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1, scheduled to be the world's first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit in August 2025. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time. If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.
Vast is looking for a(n) Staff Embedded Systems Software Engineer, reporting to the Senior Director of Flight Software to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations. You will be working under the direction of Vast's Avionics leaders to implement the flight software for our Haven space stations. This is a unique chance to learn to develop world class software from our team who have worked on some of the most advanced spacecraft ever to leave the planet. Along with the flight software you will develop code and systems to test our software and avionics hardware.
This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
Responsibilities:
- Write flight software code for Haven's flight computers, Remote IO computers and other flight hardware
- Work closely with the avionics hardware team to understand the avionics flight hardware design.
- Configure the Linux kernel, uboot system, kernel device tree, and onboard filesystems necessary to run our Haven flight software.
- Configure and write kernel drivers.
- Interface with and configure onboard FPGAs and attached devices
- Configure RTOS for microcontrollers
- Configure system boot sequences
- Integrate command and telemetry systems that communicate with ground systems and mission operations
- Develop flight code that implements GN&C algorithms
- Develop tests that rigorously exercise our flight software and hardware
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
- 10+ years of experience coding in C++ or relevant experience
- Knowing how to work in a continuous build and test environment and understanding of the tools used
- Know how to read schematics and hardware datasheets
- Familiarity with git, make, and gnu tools
- Understanding and ability to work in a Linux environment
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Experience with fault tolerant and safety critical software design on complex systems such as spacecraft, aircraft or autonomous vehicles
- Experience with bare machine programming
- Experience with network programming
- Working with satellite communications or telemetry systems
- Working in an agile development environment
- Experience with FPGA development
Pay Range:
- Senior Flight Software Engineer: $155,000 - $190,000
- Staff Software Engineer: $180,000 - $235,000
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a "U.S. person" as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
