Software Engineer - Aerospace / Flight SW

Aerospace Flight Software Engineer - 4x openings!!

Location: Open to onsite in Renton, WA (hybrid & preferred) or Remote

Duration: 6-month contract to hire

Description:

• As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers, you will be a key software team member responsible for designing, implementing, and verifying software for the primary flight computer on a lunar lander.
• You will share in the team’s impact on the full software and vehicle development life cycle, from conceptual architectures and requirements through vehicle integration, launch, and flight. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership talent, and passion for our mission to help return humans to the moon.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead technical implementation of human-rated flight software for a crewed lunar Lander
• Guide the development and implementation of subsystem applications and fault management.
• Develop software requirements in coordination with systems engineering and subsystem owners.
• Evaluate, decompose, and create requirements for safety-critical, real-time operating systems.
• Perform trade studies on platform software architecture and implementation.
• Author unit tests and documentation and participate in code reviews.
• Support vehicle Fault Management and Autonomy leads to establishing integrated vehicle autonomous behaviors, modes, and states.
• Coordinate the technical activities of the team developing vehicle and subsystem management applications.
• Coordinate efforts to integrate flight software components for testing and verification in Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation environments.
• Define and implement software development best practices.

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. or higher degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer
• science, mathematics, physics, aerospace engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of software development experience
• Proficiency in C++
• Proficiency in Git
• Proficiency in Linux
• Working knowledge of Python.
• Experience architecting software with model-based methodologies such as UML.
• Experience writing software design and requirements documents
• Strong debugging skills at the software/hardware boundary and with software tools (ex. gdb)
• Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience with Docker and CI/CD
• Experience in Embedded or Real-Time Systems
• Experience with NPR 7150.2D
• Experience with unit testing, test-driven development, and test automation
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies
• Experience working on avionics, satellite, or space flight systems

We Offer:

• We offer our contractors medical, dental, vision, and direct primary care benefits and contribute towards each contractor’s monthly health insurance premium.
• After six months of employment, they are also eligible to participate in our 401(k) plan.
• Our 401(k) plan is matched up to 4% and has 100% vesting immediately.

The Ash Group:

• About the right opportunities, integrity, professionalism, and responsiveness. That’s what you can expect from The Ash Group.
• We understand that finding the right fit for you is so much more than a pattern matching your skills to a set of job requirements. That’s why we take the time to listen and learn about you, your life and work styles, your goals, and your interests.
• We put that knowledge to work along with our expertise and connections to help you achieve better work and a better life. Success, flexibility, fast track. It can happen when you work with a firm that understands your strengths, goals, and the kind of position that meshes perfectly with them.
• We minimize your search time and maximize the quality of your work experience.

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