Senior Flight Software Engineer INew$150K

Rocket Lab
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The opportunity

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. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine.

What you'll do

  • Develop application software to run within a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and/or embedded Linux

  • Develop hardware drivers to interface to Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs),: Star Trackers, Reaction Wheels and other spacecraft sensors and actuators

  • Develop and maintain comprehensive unit tests to run within a Continuous Integration framework

  • Collaborate with hardware-in-the-loop test engineers to verify and validate: combined software and hardware functionality

  • Collaborate with systems engineers and embedded systems engineers in: developing, documenting and validating requirements

  • Participate in review of source code changes and ensure all changes meet company coding standards

What they're looking for

  • Participate in design reviews such as a PDR and CDR
  • Assist with on-orbit (and interplanetary!) flight operations
  • U.S. citizenship is required, due to program requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, computer science, electrical: engineering, or equivalent technical degree