Software Developer – Satellite Flight

Salary: £48,000 – £66,000 per year

Are you an experienced Flight Software Engineer looking for an exciting new career challenge?

Would you like to join a pioneering and innovative space company that is growing quickly worldwide, as part of their passionate and supportive engineering team?

As Flight Software Engineer you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and fabulous range of benefits, and be responsible for:

* Development and architectural design activities for the flight software on spacecraft
* Derive and maintain software requirements, define software solutions and system architectures.
* Define ICDs, development, and verification plans.
* Design, develop and validate spacecraft flight software, ground software, and
Simulation software

* Coordinating with other teams at sub-system and system level to identify software needs and solutions.

* Supporting definition and generation of ConOps.

* Performing Flight Software verification, validation, and integration.

* Participate in Mission System Test and Simulation campaigns.

* Support knowledge transfer from teams globally and provide technical review inputs to projects across the organisation.

To be considered for the Flight Software Engineer role, you will need to:

* Have a BSc or MSc in computer science, software engineering or relevant engineering/science discipline.

* Have commercial experience in flight software development for satellites.

* Have experience with embedded systems programming (C/C++).

* Have experience in using and modifying Board Support Packages.

* Have experience in using design using UML and SysML

* Knowledge of commonly used protocols and standards for spacecraft communications, such as CCSDS, CAN, and SpaceWire.

* Have experience in implementing real-time systems and software solutions on spacecraft missions.

* Have experience in developing and implementing test plans for spacecraft.

* Ideally have experience of Linux systems

* Ideally have knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Python, bash)

* Knowledge of assemblers for microcontrollers.

Bluestream Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer and operates as an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and as an Employment Business for temporary / contract recruitment.