Position Details

Position Id : 376914
Status : Open
Location : El Segundo, California
Duration : 12+ months
Pay Rate : Up to $84.00/Hour
Employment Type : Contract
Work Shift : Shift-1

Position Description

**Secret Clearance Required to Start.**

We are seeking Mid-Level Embedded Software Engineers in El Segundo, California.

The selected candidates will work on embedded cyber resiliency software for a large-scale satellite program. The position will involve integrating the software with multiple platforms and flight software, developing tools, building up development and integration platforms, executing software testing, and conducting Cyber Vulnerability Analysis (CVA). The candidates will work with flight software and product security teams to ensure engineering excellence and achieve program objectives.

Position Responsibilities
· Design, Integrate, modify, test, and debug software that is integrated into embedded devices and systems and meets industry, customer, safety and regulation standards.
· Review, analyze, and translate customer requirements for software products for embedded devices and systems.
· Build and write code for embedded systems software to run on specific specialized hardware.
· Integrate embedded software with hardware components.
· Analyze, monitor and improve the efficiency and stability of embedded software systems.
· Test and debug software for embedded devices and systems.
· Drive software execution to deliver products on-cost and on-schedule to program.
· Responsible for satellite and payload software safety, assurance, quality, and engineering excellence.
· Produce design and test documentation and artifacts.
· Conduct Cyber Vulnerability Analysis (CVA) for multiple processing platforms within the satellite vehicle architecture.
· Design and implement cyber monitoring algorithms.
· Design and write custom tools to support configuration automation and improve development workflow.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:
· Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
· Experience with embedded software development in a collaborative team environment using agile principles and a structured development process including code reviews and DevOps processes/tools
· Experience developing and debugging software using C/C++, Assembly, and/or Python
· Experience working with real-time operating systems (RTOS)
· Experience with embedded spacecraft software and spacecraft subsystems
· Experience automating software builds, unit tests and integration tests using a DevOps tool chain

Preferred Qualifications:
· Experience or interest in cyber software and white hat
· Experience with ARM, PowerPC processor architectures
· Experience with GNU toolchains and build products
· COSMOS ground software
· Experience with new product development with small, agile teams on fast-paced, dynamic customer-funded programs

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 5 or more years'
related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD, Master+3 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

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