Flight Software Engineer I Verified today
About Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems. We move fast and build real hardware for meaningful missions.
The Role
As a Flight Software Engineer I, 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. It operates rocket and spacecraft avionics, collects and distributes telemetry and commands, and hosts guidance, navigation and control software. Flight software is used throughout the full lifecycle of the Electron rocket, from production to launch.
What You'll Do
Flight Software
- Launch Vehicle Avionics Embedded Computers
- Ground Segment Communications
- Avionics simulations (including Hardware-in-the-loop)
Software Development
- 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
You'll Bring
- 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
Nice to Have
- 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