
Open since May 2026
Flight Software Engineer IIVantage Systems · Washington
Flight Software Engineer II
WashingtonOn-siteFull-time
AI Summary
Designs, develops and tests flight and ground software for spacecraft bus functions, instrument control and onboard data processing, including safety-critical fault-handling applications. Supports system-level design trade-offs and manages software engineering delivery on large integrated projects.
About this role
Security Clearance:
SECRET position. Personnel must possess a final DoD granted SECRET security clearance.
Experience and Degree: Junior: Master’s degree; Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of experience; Associate degree with 10 years; High School Diploma/GED with 10 years of experience
Experience:
- Shall provide engineering support of the flight and ground system design and development team to assure system integrity, standards are applied where practical, new and emerging technologies are exploited to the required extent, and the system is developed with the goal of reuse of applicable software components in both ground and space systems to reduce development time and cost.
- Shall design and development of all software related to spacecraft bus functions, instrument control, and onboard data processing.
- Shall develop software for both run-time external commanding, controlling, and configuring; as well as run-time delivery of status, event logs, state of health and telemetry.
- Shall develop safety-critical applications capable of detecting software and hardware fault and responding to faults in a prescribed manner through isolation or recovery.
- Shall develop software control of flight systems leveraging real-time sensing and actuating interfaces
- Shall develop hardware and application specific boot code for establishing baseline flight services and loading OS and application code into execution memory.
- Shall evaluate and apply advanced mathematical methods and algorithms in software solutions which meet the control and performance requirements of flight systems.
- Shall develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements.
- Shall provide specific input to the software components of a system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
- Shall design, implement, and integrate software applications or performs software engineering tasks.
- Shall utilize software engineering and design methodologies appropriate to the development, integration, and production environment.
- Shall ensure efficient delivery of software engineering capabilities using industry standards and repeatable processes.
- Shall mitigates risks, control costs and schedule variance, and effectively manages large scale, integrated software projects.
- Shall review and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results.
- Shall develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements.
- Shall provide specific input to the software components of a system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
- Shall design, implement, and integrate software applications or performs software engineering tasks.
- Shall utilize software engineering and design methodologies appropriate to the development, integration, and production environment.
- Shall ensure efficient delivery of software engineering capabilities using industry standards and repeatable processes.
- Shall mitigates risks, control costs and schedule variance, and effectively manages large scale, integrated software projects.
- Shall review and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results.
Skills
Boot CodeCC++Configuration ManagementCOTS/GOTSDoD Secret ClearanceEmbedded SystemsFault Detection And RecoveryFlight SoftwareReal-time Operating SystemsSafety-critical SystemsSoftware Requirements AnalysisSoftware ReuseSoftware TestingTelemetry
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