Position Details

Position Id : 376924
Status : Open
Location : El Segundo, California
Duration : 12+ months
Pay Rate : Up To $100.00/Hour
Employment Type : Contract
Work Shift : Shift-1

Position Description

**Secret Clearance required to start**

The Company Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Space Mission Systems (SMS) software capability is seeking Senior Embedded Software Engineers in El Segundo, California.

The selected candidates will work on embedded cyber resiliency software for a large-scale satellite program. The position will involve integrating the software with multiple platforms and flight software, developing tools, building up development and integration platforms, executing software testing, and conducting Cyber Vulnerability Analysis (CVA). The candidates will work with flight software and product security teams to ensure engineering excellence and achieve program objectives.
Position Responsibilities
· Design, integration, modification, test, and debugging of software that is integrated into embedded devices and systems and meets industry, customer, safety and regulation standards.
· Review, analyses, and translation of customer requirements for software products for embedded devices and systems.
· Review code for embedded systems software to run on specific specialized hardware.
· Integration of embedded software with hardware components.
· Analyses, monitoring and improvement of the efficiency and stability of embedded software systems.
· Testing and debugging of software for embedded devices and systems.
· Advise on software and hardware integration domains.
· Tracking and evaluation of internal and supplier software team performance to ensure product and process compliance to project plans and industry standards.
· Software project management functions.
· Drive software execution to deliver products on-cost and on-schedule to programs.
· Responsible for satellite and payload software safety, assurance, quality, and engineering excellence.
· Produce and deliver design and test documentation and artifacts including program CDRLs.
· Conduct Cyber Vulnerability Analysis (CVA) for multiple processing platforms within the satellite vehicle architecture.
· Design and implement cyber monitoring algorithms.
· Design and write custom tools and processes to support configuration automation and improve development workflow.
· Interface with product stakeholders including software and hardware development teams, Systems Engineering, Product Security Engineering, and Testbed Engineering.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:
· Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science
· Experience with embedded software development in a collaborative team environment using agile principles and a structured development process including code reviews and DevOps processes/tools
· Experience developing and debugging software using C/C++, Assembly, and/or Python
· Experience working with real-time operating systems (RTOS)
· Experience with embedded spacecraft software and spacecraft subsystems
· Experience automating software builds, unit tests and integration tests using a DevOps tool chain

Preferred Qualifications:
· Experience or interest in cyber software and white hat
· Experience with ARM, PowerPC processor architectures
· Experience with GNU toolchains and build products
· COSMOS ground software
· Experience with new product development with small, agile teams on fast-paced, dynamic customer-funded programs

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in
engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 9 or more years'
related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+4 years' related work experience, Master+7 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABETaccreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.

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