About the role
Muon seeks a Flight Software Engineer to join our satellite flight software team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated versatile software developer with significant previous experience developing robust bare-metal / RTOS embedded devices or appliances. In this role, you will design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on our orbiting satellites.
Responsibilities
• Integral member of the team defining and building 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 that runs in our satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs • Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for our software foundation • Write application, platform, and driver functionality in our flight software environment and teach others how to use it • 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
Qualifications
B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field 5+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment Strong C/C++ programming, with some practical familiarity of other languages Great 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 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, etc) • Familiarity with a Linux-based development environment • Experience with one or more of: embedded linux, FPGA, HW design, RF communication systems, cloud/server infrastructure, network architecture
End-to-end development from product concept to delivery to customer/market.
Salary
The salary range for this role is $170,000 - $195,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.