Staff Engineer, Flight Software/Embedded Software

Posted: 2026-10-16

Staff Engineer, Flight Software/Embedded Software

- Provide subject matter expertise for ADCS and imaging payload subsystem software design and development.

- Drive work to timely completion using task management tools like Jira in an Agile-like environment; participate and lead in status and standup meetings, sprint planning, tasking, etc.

- Collaborate with other ESG software team members and other cross-functional engineers from multiple disciplines to deliver mission-critical software features and bugfixes that are on-time and defect free.

- Ensure that adequate documentation, test, inspection, and analysis is delivered and performed to verify compliance with requirements and other goals.

- Assist with Systems Engineering with requirements development and management.

- Execute and provide feedback for flight software design, development, unit tests and releases processes.

- Other job-related duties as assigned.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience

- At least 10 years of experience delivering and maintaining commercial/embedded1 software in a production environment.

- Expertise in engineering clean and maintainable C/C++ and Python code.

- Expertise in embedded systems, ideally in Embedded Linux including related build systems (Buildroot, Yocto, etc.).

- Proven experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products on time and on budget.

- Outstanding root cause analysis and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Demonstrated ability to work across teams, skill sets, communication in a diverse environment.

- Must be able to work with minimal supervision.