Job description
Do you want to help a small company make a BIG difference in space? Do you take ownership of your job and responsibility for your actions? Then come work for Red Canyon and help us continue our mission of helping humankind reach the stars!
Red Canyon Software is looking for a Space Flight Software Engineer for a planetary mission to support software engineering activities associated with development as well as delivery of embedded flight software (FSW) products for a large-scale project.
As an Embedded/Flight Software Engineer, the successful candidate will be part of a team with unique world-class expertise in Avionics System Engineering, Flight Command and Data Handling (C&DH) Software, Avionics System Integration, Test, Operations, and Software Technology Research.
This specific position, will be working with low-level flight software, implementing and modifying bootloaders and SUROMs. As part of the team the candidate will push the envelope of what’s possible and have the opportunity to implement, configure, and modify real-time operating systems and implement or test spacecraft capabilities such command, communication, data management, instrument managers, and fault protection. This position provides many interesting programming opportunities, including working on device drivers.
Job Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:
- Modifying, implementing, and maintaining SUROMs and bootloaders.
- Configuring and modify real-time operating systems.
- Designing and implementing real-time flight software for spacecraft in C.
- Developing test plans, unit tests, and evaluate test results. Run tests against simulators and testbeds.
- Identifying and troubleshooting technical issues with flight software in an integrated system.
- Working as part of a team with experienced flight software developers.
Work Location:
This work may be hybrid, which would generally require 2 days in the Pasadena office and 3 days remote. This is a general guideline and will be based upon the needs of the project(s) and the discretion of the project leadership.
Required Education and Experience:
This position requires a BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related technical discipline with a minimum of 6 years of related experience; Master’s degree in similar disciplines with a minimum of 4 year of related experience; or PhD with 2 years related experience.
This position requires a U.S. Person who is eligible to obtain any required Export Authorization
Required:
- Experience with developing, modifying, and maintaining SUROMs and bootloaders.
- Experience modifying VxWorks and/or Greenhills Integrity at the operating system level.
- Experience with embedded software development.
- Excellent C programming skills.
- Familiarity with assembly language.
- Multi-threaded programming.
- Coursework in operating systems, computer architecture, algorithms, and data structures.
Desired:
- Experience with programming languages, software engineering, computer science theory.
- Python or C++
Red Canyon Engineering and Software:
“Exploring Other Planets, Improving our Own”
Red Canyon contracts with NASA, NOAA, NREL, JPL, and DOD, in addition to customers such as Lockheed Martin Space, Raytheon, Sierra Nevada Corporation, a.i. solutions, Walt Disney Imagineering, SAIC, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, Honeywell, KBRwyle, Maxar, Blue Origin, and Moog. We specialize in building spacecraft, developing renewable energy technologies to help make our planet a better world and cutting edge research and development. Our disciplines include systems engineering, mechanical design, structural analysis, real time flight and ground software, simulation software, user interface software, and mission management software. We help our contractors with the full life cycle of product development from requirements to test and delivery.
Some of the programs we have previously or currently worked on include: Human Lander System, Artemis I-II, WorldView Legion V, Perseverance, InSight Dream Chaser, Psyche, Mars 98, Odyssey 01, Stardust, Genesis and Deep Impact, Mars Phoenix, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Orion, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GOES-R, OSIRIS-REx, Maven, JUNO, Grail, and the MarsFlight and LunarSIM Simulation. We also work on classified programs.
Red Canyon’s home office is located in scenic Denver, Colorado, and our regional office is in historic downtown Titusville, Florida. We are a small company that maintains a flat organization to decrease our overhead and costs to our customers. Our number one focus is to solve some of the most complicated engineering problems humankind is facing.
We have a fun and talented team of engineers and we are committed to our engineers continued success and development. Included in our employment package are immediate HUBZone bonus, health benefits, profit sharing, referral bonuses, and a generous 401(K) retirement plan.
Red Canyon Software, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Red Canyon Software, Inc does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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