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Embedded Software Engineer

Space Dynamics Laboratory
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Job ID 17874

 

Bottom Line Up Front: We design and build satellites. Anything touching that is helpful.

Specifically, we write embedded software for these satellites. It's detail-oriented, fairly intense, and super-fulfilling.

We are looking for amazing software engineers at the junior, mid, and senior levels. 

If you've got the skills, join our embedded software team!

 

SDL offers competitive salaries and fantastic benefits, including:

  • Flexible work schedules that fit your style: every Friday off, every other Friday off, hybrid remote work, or simply traditional hours 
  • Generous paid leisure and sick leave, ensuring you never miss a special event
  • A 14.2% employer retirement contribution into a 401(a) account-no matching required!
  • Favorable company locations with average commute times of less than 15 minutes
  • Utah State University undergraduate tuition discounts of 50%, full reimbursement for graduate tuition, and free course audits for employees and dependents meeting eligibility requirements
  • High-quality, low-cost health, dental, and life insurance
  • A great, highly educated team that works together to solve some of the most fascinating problems on (and off) our planet
  • We are a growing company that maintains both a family feel and high retention rate with over 90% job satisfaction
  • Relocation assistance available for most positions

 

Required Qualifications:

  • BS in related field (Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics)
  • C++
  • Linux
  • Hardware knowledge/interfacing
  • Desire to do it right, and to document it
  • Willing to make a project succeed, from inception, to creation, test, launch, and re-entry
  • Easy to work with
  • Willing to learn and help others on the team
  • Strong design skills
  • Ability to find and fix bugs
  • U.S. citizenship required               

Preferred Qualifications (i.e., Things that get you extra credit):

  • Git/Bitbucket/Jira/Confluence or similar
  • Ability to obtain a US government security clearance preferred
  • Fantastic communication skills -- ability to convey your point concisely
  • Excellent skill presenting to customers
  • Software effort estimation skills
  • Network knowledge
  • BSP experience
  • WSL2/Docker
  • Software security skills
  • Shell scripting skills
  • Environmental testing/AI&T experience
  • Python

Background things that may improve your odds:

  • SpaceWire/Serial(232,422)/Ethernet/CCSDS
  • GNC/ADCS/radio/propulsion/GPS/orbital knowledge
  • Including the word banana in your cover letter
  • Unafraid to touch hardware in the lab
  • RF and encryption experience
  • Ground station experience
  • DevSecOps
  • FPGA skills
  • Jenkins
  • CMake

SDL supports a variety of missions, including NASA’s vision to reveal the unknown for the benefit of humankind and the Department of Defense’s aim to protect our Nation on the ground, in the air, and in space. Our sensors, satellites, software systems, and science and engineering play an essential role in some important missions you’ve heard of, and others that you haven’t. Join our team in our seventh decade of delivering mission success.