Onboard Software Solutions Engineer
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ON-SITE – FULL TIME – ABU DHABI Apply Here Wanna join the adventure? The Onboard Software Solutions Team is responsible for creating, configuring, and deploying all onboard software components dedicated to a program or mission.
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The Onboard Software Solutions Team is responsible for creating, configuring, and deploying all onboard software components dedicated to a program or mission.
We configure and extend agnostic onboard software to fit a given satellite architecture and requirements, and are responsible for the development, end-to-end testing, and release of that onboard software.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology, helping build modern automated infrastructure, bringing software and space together.
As well as developing our future systems, the role will also be working on real-time issues on live missions, helping to solve problems as they occur.
About This Role
- Streamline the creation, integration, validation, and release of onboard software by improving test coverage, automating testing, and minimizing time from feature development to availability on-orbit.
- Configure standard onboard software components for customers’ payloads and support the deployment and troubleshooting internally and externally
- Own and evolve the tools for onboard software creation, versioning, testing, and release management while providing transparent, up-to-date status tracking for all stakeholders across programs and missions.
- Collaborate closely with the broader Engineering and Satellite Operations teams to ensure the rapid, reliable, and thoroughly tested deployment of onboard software for customers.
Must Haves
- Experience in Python and C++
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (gitlab-ci, teamcity, travis-ci)
- Automated testing frameworks
- Experience in data serialization/deserialization (yaml, json, cue)
- Previous experience as Flight Software Engineer or Software Integration Engineer or Software Test Engineer or Software Engineer with a focus on Automated Testing
- Ability to troubleshoot and effectively communicate issues and solutions
Nice To Haves
- Experience in Embedded Linux Operation
- Experience in build systems (make, cmake)
- Experience in Networking (UDP, TCP, IP)
- Experience in Software Integration – Making all the pieces work together
- Experience in or close to Satellite Operations
- Orbitworks’ mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space.
- Building on Loft Orbital’s heritage, Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites.
- Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.
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