Staff Software Engineer Clearance, Flight Software Verified today
About the role
Muon seeks a 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 satellites. This is a staff-level position offering significant technical leadership and architectural influence across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment running on satellite flight systems using ARM Cortex-M CPUs
- Develop application, platform, and driver functionality in the flight software environment
- Translate concepts and requirements into design and working implementations, supporting through to on-orbit operations
- Provide technical leadership on key projects, organizing cross-functional teams to deliver mission-critical capabilities
- Develop technical strategy documents including architectural patterns, shared libraries, and common services
- Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in both software and hardware
- Collaborate with hardware team members on design and bring-up of Muon spacecraft
- Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for the software foundation
- Develop software and hardware-in-the-loop test strategies
- Communicate with cloud backends and set flight software architecture across the team
Required qualifications
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
- 7+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment
- Strong C/C++ programming with practical familiarity of other languages
- Embedded systems fundamentals: resource-efficient design, low-level drivers, bit manipulation, responsive software and IRQ handling, RTOS frameworks, I/O and communication buses
- Integration and control of external hardware devices
- Ability to read and understand hardware data sheets
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Experience working on government/defense projects
- Current TS security clearance
Nice-to-have skills
- Flight software or closely related domain experience
- Industry-standard data formats: ProtoBuf, YAML, JSON
- Rust and Python experience
- Linux-based development environment
- Embedded Linux, FPGA, hardware design, or RF communication systems
- End-to-end development from product concept to delivery
Compensation and benefits
Salary range: $228,000 to $252,000, plus equity grant and comprehensive benefits. Final compensation determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Full-time employees receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k retirement plan, short and long-term disability, life insurance, three weeks paid vacation, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
Export control requirements
This position requires access to export-controlled information. You must be a U.S. person (citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee), eligible to access export-controlled information without authorization, or eligible and likely to obtain required export authorization from the U.S. government.