Own core flight software subsystems end to end: telemetry and messaging, the command and sequencing path, fault detection and recovery, hardware interfaces (UART, CAN, TCP/IP, RS-422), and the radios that keep us commandable

Write modern C++ on a Linux flight computer, Python where it moves faster, and keep it memory-safe and thread-safe under schedule pressure, because the schedule belongs to a spacecraft

Take changes from design through review, flatsat and hardware-in-the-loop verification, deploy, and on-orbit behavior, and close them, verified and handed over, not demoed

Run point on anomalies: diagnose from telemetry and logs, decide what is safe to command, then fix the class of defect, not the instance

Make the team stronger: review flight code with rigor, hand systems off with documentation that outlives you, and coach less experienced engineers to shippable instead of rewriting their work

Defend your design decisions to GNC, avionics, operations, and leadership, with data

Deep, hands-on C++ on real-time or resource-constrained systems that had to work, RTOS or embedded Linux

Fault-tolerant thinking: what happens when this module fails, how the vehicle stays safe and commandable, how it recovers without waiting for the ground

The habit of finishing: you close what you commit to, you verify before you call it done, and when a date slips we hear it from you first

The instinct to challenge an assumption, back the challenge with data, and convince people. Engineers here make the call and defend it.

Engineer: 2+ years. Senior: 6+ years. Principal: 10+ years. Years are a guide, not a gate. Spacecraft or launch vehicle experience helps a lot, real-time software on real hardware that had to work is what we actually need, and at Engineer level we care more about how fast you learn than what you have already flown.

BS in computer science, computer engineering, aerospace, electrical engineering, or equivalent proficiency. We mean the "or".

Flight Software Engineer

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Katalyst

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