Flight Software Engineer Verified today
About Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity's reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
The Role
As a Flight Software Engineer, you will be responsible for creation, maintenance and support of software on both the Electron rocket and associated ground-based communication systems. Electron flight software provides critical support to vehicle systems through launch and on orbit, operating rocket and spacecraft avionics, collecting and distributing telemetry and commands, and hosting guidance, navigation and control software.
What You'll Do
Flight Software Areas:
- Launch Vehicle Avionics Embedded Computers
- Ground Segment Communications
- Avionics simulations (including Hardware-in-the-loop)
Software Development Responsibilities:
- Develop software and unit tests according to bug-fix and feature requests
- Develop documentation for operation of software products
- Participate in review of flight code merge requests
- Facilitate software architecture meetings
- Approve software architecture designs
- Keep tickets up to date regarding work in progress
- Manage trade-studies
- Approve Software Requirements
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings
- Deliver training on use of software products
- Deploy operational software
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or demonstrated equivalent level of knowledge
- Minimum of 2 years experience within a software engineering related discipline
- C/C++ development
Desirable Qualifications
- Experience with high-reliability software systems
- Experience with networking
- Radio communications and related technologies such as SDR, encoding schemes
- Embedded software development fundamentals
- Experience developing within Linux systems
- Python development
- Data processing and analysis