About the role Muon seeks a Flight Software Engineer to join our satellite flight software team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated versatile software developer with significant previous experience developing robust bare-metal / RTOS embedded devices or appliances. In this role, you will design, develop, integrate, and test the software and firmware that runs on our orbiting satellites. This position is based at our San Jose, CA office.
Responsibilities ----------------
• Integral member of the team defining and building Muon's satellite bus platform • Translate concepts and requirements into design and working implementations, supporting through to on-orbit operations • Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment that runs in our satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs • Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for our software foundation • Write application, platform, and driver functionality in our flight software environment and teach others how to use it • Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in both software and hardware • Collaborate with hardware team members on the design and bring up of Muon hardware • Collaborate with software team members to set flight software architecture, select infrastructure and tools, and communicate with cloud backends • Participate in developing software and hardware-in-the-loop test strategies
Qualifications -------------
B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field 8+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment Strong C/C++ programming, with some practical familiarity of other languages Great embedded systems fundamentals: resource-efficient design, low-level drivers, bit manipulation, responsive software and IRQ handling, RTOS frameworks, I/O and communication buses Integration and control of external hardware devices Read and understand hardware data sheets Excellent communication and presentation skills
Nice-to-have Skills -------------------
• Knowledge of industry-standard data formats and schemas (ProtoBuf, YAML, JSON, etc) • Familiarity with a Linux-based development environment • Experience with one or more of: embedded linux, FPGA, HW design, RF communication systems, cloud/server infrastructure, network architecture
End-to-end development from product concept to delivery to customer/market.
Salary -------
The salary range for this role is $198,000 - $223,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.