Embedded Software Engineer

Astroboticis at the forefront of advancing space exploration and technology development. Our expertise spans from lunar rovers landers and infrastructure to spacecraft navigation machine vision and computing systems for in-space robotic applications. To date the company has been contracted for two lunar missions and has won more than 60 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Department of Defense (DoD) and commercial technology contracts worth more than $600 million.

We recently launched and operated the first American lunar lander mission since the Apollo Program. Beyond helping lead America back to the Moon Astrobotic developed and operates reusable vertical takeoff vertical landing (VTVL) rockets and continues to advance next-generation VTVL capabilities and advanced rocket engines. Established in 2007 Astrobotic is headquartered in Pittsburgh PA with a propulsion and test campus in Mojave CA.

Location: Onsite (Pittsburgh PA)

Job Responsibilities:

Join Astrobotic and help build the future of space exploration.Were seeking a motivated and skilled software engineer to design develop test and deploy software for our lunar landers and rovers. In this role youll:

• Develop custom drivers for flight hardware components
• Advance and mature existing software designs
• Evaluate system risks and ensure reliability
• Collaborate with subsystem leads to ensure seamless hardware/software integration
• Work with both ground and flight hardware in hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) environments
• Author technical documentation and provide regular updates to the Mission Software Lead

Note:This position may be filled at various levels (Engineer II Engineer III Senior Engineer or Principal Engineer) based on your experience and qualifications.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in software driver development (or 2 years with a Masters degree)
• Proficient in C C and Python (or similar scripting languages)
• Hands-on experience developing testing and debugging embedded software
• Skilled in software integration and testing including writing and executing unit tests
• Experience with real-time deterministic embedded systems
• Comfortable working across multiple operating systems and development environments including Windows and Linux
• Demonstrated experience with the full software development lifecycle for complex systems
• Familiarity with configuration management tools
• Experience working within an Agile development framework

Desired Skills & Qualifications:

• Understanding of failure detection isolation and recovery (FDIR) or other fault-tolerant system design methods
• Experience with communication and I/O protocols such as CAN bus RS-232/RS-422 TCP/IP or space-specific communication protocols
• Proficiency with Git and version control best practices
• Experience with hardware description languages particularly VHDL
• Familiarity with container technologies like Docker or Kubernetes as well as virtual machine environments
• Background in developing hardware or systems for space applications
• Experience building embedded software and instrumentation for spacecraft or aerospace systems

Salary

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position. The actual base salary offered for this position will depend on numerous factors including individual performance business objectives and the candidates professional experience. Base salary is just one component of Astrobotics competitive total rewards strategy.

Benefits:

Benefits include Medical dental vision voluntary life insurance long and short-term disability401k and open PTO.

Export Control Regulations:

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. person which includes U.S. nationals lawful permanent residents protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) including those individuals granted refugee or asylum status or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Astrobotic Technology Inc. does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race color religion sex (including pregnancy and gender identity) national origin political affiliation sexual orientation marital status disability genetic information age membership in an employee organization retaliation parental status military service or other non-merit factor.

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