Software Engineer - Ada
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
FULLY REMOTE FLIGHT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING OPPORTUNITY SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SATELLITE AND SPACECRAFT SYSTEMS FOR A TOP AEROSPACE COMPANY IN THE WORLD!!!**
Job Description
This company builds satellites and space systems for a wide variety of government and commercial customers. Its products include high-powered direct-to-home broadcast satellites, commercial weather satellites, digital audio radio satellites, Earth observation satellites and spot-beam satellites for data networking applications.
These 6 Engineers will be working on the PPE (Power and Propulsion Element) - a NASA project for a planned solar electric ion propulsion module, a major component of the Lunar Gateway. The PPE will allow access to the entire lunar surface and a wide range of lunar orbits and double as a space tug for visiting craft.
Responsibilities
Ada95 Software Development and compilation for an ICU (integrated computer unit)Developing flight software for ACS (attitude control system)Unit testing of code (must be willing to do both development and testing)RTOS software development on GreenHills
Job Skills & Qualifications
Strong Ada, C/C++ experienceReal-time embedded (RTOS) experienceExperience and willingness to do unit testing of code
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