Flight Software Engineer
- Role
- Backend
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Company size
- Startup
Open to US only. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Software engineer for spacecraft flight software with strong programming skills and embedded software experience. Must be United States-based and able to work across the full flight software lifecycle.
Do you want to help a small company make a BIG difference in space? Do you take ownership of your job and responsibility for your actions? Then come work for Red Canyon and help us continue our mission of helping humankind reach the stars!
Red Canyon Software 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. The Software Engineer's primary responsibility will be contributing to the development of customer satellite flight software. This engineer will be involved in the full lifecycle of flight software development, from requirements definition through operations. However, because we are a small team where each person takes on many roles, this engineer will also contribute to mission concept development, in-house modeling and simulation capabilities, and proposal writing. Being at the cutting edge of space technology, we need someone who is eager to learn, grow, and take on new and potentially unfamiliar challenges. There is no shortage of fascinating problems to solve. The Senior Software Engineer will provide autonomous support of complex assignments, under the leadership of the Software Engineering Manager. The Senior Software Engineer will have project and subject matter responsibility and authority.
What you'll do
- Contributing to the development of customer satellite flight software
- Being involved in the full lifecycle of flight software development, from requirements definition through operations
- Contribute to mission concept development
- Contribute to in-house modeling and simulation capabilities
- Contribute to proposal writing
- Provide autonomous support of complex assignments, under the leadership of the Software Engineering Manager
- Have project and subject matter responsibility and authority
What they require
- Exceptional programming skills
- Experience in embedded software
- Eager to learn, grow, and take on new and potentially unfamiliar challenges
Red Canyon Engineering and Software contracts with NASA, NOAA, NREL, JPL, DOD, and aerospace/technology customers, specializing in spacecraft, renewable energy technologies, R&D, embedded flight software, software testing, GN&C, systems engineering, mechanical design, structural analysis, real time flight and ground software, simulation software, UI software, and mission management software.