Senior Flight Software Engineer

Senior Flight Software Engineer

D-Orbit

Lomazzo, Italy

D-Orbit is seeking a Senior Flight Software Engineer to join our Flight Software team.

Following the space industry standards and best practices, you will contribute to the development of mission critical real-time embedded software, running on the D-Orbit latest generation On-Board Computers.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks:

• Contribute to the entire embedded software application lifecycle, focusing on requirements definition, design, coding, debugging and integration with the flight hardware, with a primary focus on OBC software;
• Preparation of flight software deliverable documentation for project milestones;
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team processes and methodologies, including identification, definition and maintenance of cross-projects building blocks;
• Coordinate with subcontractors and software suppliers.

Additional duties may be assigned as needed by each project, like:

• Define software system specifications during co-engineering activities with the system team;
• Improve and develop new features to shared libraries;
• Maintenance of existing flight software applications;
• Support to AIV and HIL/SIL test activities;
• Take part to reviews with stakeholders;
• Mentor junior engineers.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 7 years experience in embedded software development, including definition of real-time SW architectures;
• Experience delivering embedded software in any C-family language;
• Knowledge of any typical embedded communication interfaces such as USART, SPI, I2C, CAN, SpW, MIL-STD-1553 and related protocols;
• Knowledge of real-time operating systems (such as RTEMS or FreeRTOS) and/or operating systems targeted for embedded applications (such as any embedded Linux);
• Familiarity with with bug/SPR tracking and project management tools (Jira);
• Familiarity SW requirements elicitation, SW design and testing lifecycle in regulated environment (ideally ECSS standard);
• Experience using and configuring any common build tool chains or similar development environment (such as ANT, WAF, Makefile, Visual Studio, Jenkins etc.);
• Familiarity with Git versioning system or any similar DVCS;
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively;
• Degree, in any relevant area such as computer engineering, electronic engineering, aerospace engineering, robotics or automation;
• Full professional proficiency of English language is mandatory;
• Deep knowledge of AI tools.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Good understanding of ECSS standards for OBC/Payload SW (PUS, OBCP, Savoir, etc.);
• Good understanding of CCSDS standards for telemetry and telecommand (including CFDP);
• Basic understanding of Assembly language.