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Sr Flight Software Engineer

Broomfield, CO 80021

Posted: 09/26/2024 Employment Type: Contract Department: Core Technologies - Contract Job Number: 29623 Industry: AERO - Aerospace

Job Description

Position Title: Sr. Flight Software Engineer (Clearance Required)

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Contract Sr Flight Software Engineer (Clearance Required) opportunity located in Broomfield, CO.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Designing and developing flight software and algorithms solutions for spacecraft missions for both civilian and DoD applications.  These designs stem from understanding, analyzing and evaluating satellite and constellation capabilities, mission concepts, and system requirements.
  • Your work will ensure we meet customer requirements by making data-driven decisions in architecting, implementing and testing the design in a testbed prototype and subsequent delivery of the flight code.
  • Contribute to analyses of various architectures that include space vehicles, satellites, sensors, communications, and ground infrastructure; evolving or creating new approaches based on analysis results.
  • Contribute to evaluating the mission effectiveness of the candidate approaches, balancing mission objectives against factors such as development and lifecycle costs.
  • Participates in all portions of the software life cycle (concept development, requirements definition, design, development, testing, and deployment) of flight software to support ongoing and future small satellite programs.

Job Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other related discipline and typically 8 or more years of relevant experience
  • Demonstrated knowledge of engineering principles and practices
  • Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams
  • An active Top Secret with SCI eligibility U.S. Security Clearance is required.

Preferred Job Qualifications:
  • Strong technical understanding of C++.
  • Familiarity with industry standard software languages such as Python.
  • Experience with spacecraft flight software development
  • Demonstrated experience leading a team developing software
  • Experience with software tools for requirements tracking, code reviews, static analysis, library and artifact repository, and automated build
  • Knowledge of software development methodologies such as Agile/Scrum
  • Experience and knowledge of Software Design Patterns
  • Experience using SysML/UML to create Software Designs
  • Experience testing and debugging on both Software in the Loop (SITL) and Hardware in the Loop (HITL, on target platform) environments
  • Experience with Configuration Management platforms (GIT, SVN)
  • Experience developing on a Real Time Operating System (VxWorks preferred)
  • Technical leadership or managerial experience is a plus

Job Details:
  • Job Type: Contract
  • Location: Broomfield, CO.
  • Pay Rate Range: $80–110/hr.
  • ITAR obligations are associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a) (1), (3) is required.

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to product development companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.

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