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Albedo Senior Flight Software Engineer in Broomfield, Colorado
At Albedo our mission is to bring 10-cm imagery to the masses, and as our Senior Flight Software Engineer, you'll be playing a critical part in our software development, verification, and roadmap to the future!
We're developing a highly precise and nimble satellite that's flying in Very-Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) to reach our 10-cm goal (and let's not forget the 2-meter thermal imagery to boot)! We've got tight timing constraints in our spacecraft, and software performance is key to achieving that goal. We embody high-speed and low drag!
If furthering your experience in embedded Linux, performance benchmarking, and hardware offloading sounds exciting, then read on!
What You'll Do: - Define, design, develop, test and deploy highly performant flight software in embedded Linux for the first ever 10cm class space imaging vehicle - Benchmark your solutions to ensure you're meeting our tight timing constraints - Work directly with avionics hardware; design software solutions that can communicate across asymmetric processing architectures including embedded Linux - Support the development of non-real-time and real-time test beds - Participate in end-to-end integration and test campaigns to ensure our software is robust - Maintain automated systems for CI/CD, both software-only and hardware solutions - Support integration of flight command & control within Albedo's ground infrastructure.
Your Ideal Skills and Experience: - You understand trade-offs when it comes to topics such as memory, processor capabilities, hardware offloading, latency/bandwidth, or build versus re-use - You can use version control, such as Git (hint: we use it), and you might be pedantic about how you version your software (like using SemVer) - You demonstrate a core competency in one, or many, of the following: non-real-time and real-time emulation systems, networking communication, distributed computing, Linux driver development, middleware frameworks, state machine modeling, software/hardware simulations, or pick your flavor of nerding out and tell us! - You (preferably) have experience in spacecraft flight software development - Most importantly - you want to learn and want to be challenged - You have read all of this and are excited to apply!
Even if you feel like you don't meet all of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply! Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications.