Senior Software Engineer - Flight Software

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Flight Software. The role involves developing satellite flight software, supporting GNC algorithm integration, and executing verification tests to ensure software performance and compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of new satellite flight software for U.S. satellite platforms
• Support development and integration of GNC algorithms
• Support development and modification of flight software hosted on new flight computer designs
• Develop in-house tools to analyze flight software performance and assess its compatibility with new mission and conops
• Develop and execute flight software verification and validation tests at the unit, module, subsystem, and platform level
• Develop and execute FSW verifications tests using both proprietary satellite digital twin software and a Hardware in the Loop (HIL) FlatSat
• Establish and document test methodologies and descriptions to test compliance with customer-based requirements
• Develop and implement software and tools for ground support equipment to test and validate flight software
• Contribute to document management, including versioning, bug reporting, and test plan documentation
• Oversee and conduct official validation tests
• Support working groups, both internal and with customers and/or vendors
• Support proposal writing, new business
• Assess the software impacts of new hardware, conops, and missions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas
• A minimum of 9 years with a Bachelor's degree, or 7 years with a Master's degree
• Proven track-record of working with space hardware and/or flight software systems, starting from conceptual designs and tradeoffs through detailed design, development, manufacture, integration, test, deployment, and operations
• Insatiable curiosity and a demonstrated ability to learn and work independently
• Proficiency in C/C++
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government security clearance
• US Citizenship is required
• Master's in STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Math) or related scientific areas
• Active DoD security clearance at Secret or above highly desirable