Description:
We are looking for a Senior Vehicle Software Engineer (Senior Engineering Specialist - Multidisciplinary Guidance Navigation & Control) with technical expertise on topics related to real-time vehicle software and embedded software design, development, and testing. In addition, s/he will be expected to provide technical mentoring and will facilitate and encourage the culture of innovation within the department, ensuring the capabilities and expertise needed to support The Aerospace Corporation's current and future customers.
This is a full-time position based in El Segundo, CA., requiring at least 4 days onsite.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Providing technical expertise and analysis on flight/embedded software systems for national security space and commercial space programs.
- Contributing to key flight software development processes, such as preliminary and critical design reviews, requirements definition, and qualification testing.
- Support development of software-in-the-loop platforms, hardware-in-the-loop platforms, interface modeling, simulation architectures, and mission support.
- Act as the technical expert on flight/embedded software systems for multi-disciplinary projects that span across organizations.
- Advise on ways to strengthen the department’s capabilities in the following focus areas: avionics and/or emulated avionics hardware-in-the-loop simulation; software-in-the-loop simulation; simulated vehicle environments and dynamics; flight code validation; anomaly identification and resolution; common hardware/software interfaces; and other emerging embedded architecture and design concepts.
- Provide technical leadership/mentorship to team members.
Minimum Requirements What You Need to be Successful
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or equivalent
- 10+ years of applicable professional or academic experience in flight and/or embedded software systems
- Experience and ability to keep up with the state-of-the-art in flight and embedded systems software practices and hardware advancements
- Experience as a leading contributor to multidisciplinary teams
- Experience writing technical reports and giving technical presentations
- Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.
How You Can Stand Out It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:
- Advanced degree in a STEM field or equivalent
- Familiarity in tracking or monitoring critical support technologies related to flight and/or embedded software, simulation, and software testing is a big plus
- Strong knowledge in launch vehicle and satellite flight software architectures, development, and testing, including experience in control systems, redundancy algorithms, fault detection, sensor processing, and data interfaces
- Experience in the development of Software-in-the-Loop and Hardware-in-the-Loop simulations
- Active Secret or higher security clearance (TS or SCI)