Astro Digital designs, builds, and operates a diverse range of small satellite systems supporting space-based turnkey missions for several business applications, including earth observation, communications, in-orbit demonstrations, risk reduction opportunities, in addition to various science and exploration applications. Astro Digital is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with infrastructure around the globe.

Position Summary

As a Software Engineer you are responsible for designing, developing and implementing innovative satellite flight software solutions across a variety of satellite subsystems and at the system level. You are responsible to program and project managers for software development and testing for customer programs and internal R&D efforts. You will also research and advise on the state of industry’s software best practices, tools, and products in support of company software strategy.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement simple, reliable, and fault tolerant software for a variety of SoC’s and microcontrollers in C/C++, MicroPython and Python
• Participate in driver development, bring up hardware enablement on Linux, and other real time operating systems
• Test software in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments, including the development of comprehensive unit and regression tests
• Work with the team to establish software requirements and architecture including supporting software related business development tasks
• Support the Satellite Operations team in satellite commissioning, operations automation, anomaly investigation and mitigation.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in computer science or equivalent practical experienc
• 5+ years of related experience developing C/C++ software for high-performance embedded devices
• Demonstrated ability to develop and debug firmware
• Familiar with one or more cross compile build environments
• Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties autonomously without supervision
• Hands on experience with satellites, robotic systems, or similar
• Experience with build system, package manager and SW analysis tool
• Experience with bootloader, linux kernel and buildroot
• Experience with FPGAs a plus
• Experience with RF systems a plus
• Experience with real-time operating systems (FreeRTOS and TI-RTOS a plus)

This position requires access to export-controlled commodities, technical data, technology, software, and services. U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 22 CFR §120.15 and 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3) is required.

Tagged as: simulation, robotic systems, test software