Senior Software Engineer, Flight Software

You will join Muon's satellite flight software team as a self-motivated versatile software developer with significant experience building robust bare-metal and RTOS embedded devices. You'll design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on orbiting satellites, working from Muon's San Jose, CA office.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an integral member of the team defining and building Muon's satellite bus platform
• Translate concepts and requirements into design and working implementations, supporting through to on-orbit operations
• Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment that runs in satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs
• Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for the software foundation
• Write application, platform, and driver functionality in the flight software environment and teach others how to use it
• Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in both software and hardware
• Collaborate with hardware team members on the design and bring up of Muon hardware
• Collaborate with software team members to set flight software architecture, select infrastructure and tools, and communicate with cloud backends
• Participate in developing software and hardware-in-the-loop test strategies

Requirements

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
• 8+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment
• Strong C/C++ programming, with some practical familiarity of other languages
• Great embedded systems fundamentals: resource-efficient design, low-level drivers, bit manipulation, responsive software and IRQ handling, RTOS frameworks, I/O and communication buses
• Integration and control of external hardware devices
• Read and understand hardware data sheets
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Benefits

• Equity grant
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k retirement plan
• Short & long term disability and life insurance
• Three weeks paid vacation for new employees
• 12 paid holidays
• Unlimited sick time
• Paid parental leave