Senior Software Engineer, Flight Software Verified today
About the role
Muon seeks a Senior Flight Software Engineer to join our satellite flight software team. You will design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on our orbiting LEO satellites. This position is based at our San Jose, CA office.
Responsibilities
- Lead definition and development of Muon's satellite bus platform
- Translate concepts and requirements into design and working implementations, supporting through to on-orbit operations
- Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment for satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs
- Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for the software foundation
- Write application, platform, and driver functionality in the flight software environment
- Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in both software and hardware
- Collaborate with hardware team members on the design and bring up of Muon hardware
- Collaborate with software team members to set flight software architecture, select infrastructure and tools, and communicate with cloud backends
- Participate in developing software and hardware-in-the-loop test strategies
Required Qualifications
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
- 8+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment
- Strong C/C++ programming, with practical familiarity of other languages
- Experience with integration and control of external hardware devices
- Ability to read and understand hardware data sheets
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Nice-to-have Skills
- Knowledge of industry-standard data formats and schemas (ProtoBuf, YAML, JSON)
- Embedded systems fundamentals: resource-efficient design, low-level drivers, bit manipulation, responsive software, IRQ handling, RTOS frameworks, I/O and communication buses
- Familiarity with Linux-based development environments
- Experience with embedded Linux, FPGA, hardware design, RF communication systems, cloud/server infrastructure, or network architecture
- End-to-end development from product concept to customer delivery
Compensation
Salary range: $184,000 - $208,000, plus equity grant and comprehensive benefits. Final compensation determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.
Benefits
Full-time employees receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k retirement plan, short and long term disability and life insurance, three weeks paid vacation, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
Export Control
This position requires access to export controlled information. Applicant must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee), or eligible to access export controlled information without authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency.