Description:A successful candidate will become a Flight Software Engineer for an exciting program in support of the Nation’s space program.
General responsibilities include: Monitor the health and safety of spacecraft and ground system.Monitor real-time activities and transmit daily loads to the Ground Stations and Operations Center as well as edits for flight SW telemetry, flight software patches and significant and minor changes to flight SW to adjust for changing mission parameters.
Respond to, identify and investigate spacecraft and ground anomalies as it relates to the SW code for the mission.
Write and maintain daily operations records – daily blogs, activity requests, engineering changes, etc.Help with the efforts to perform daily mission planning activities and trending and data analysis activities.Perform verification testing using a Spacecraft Simulator for all off-nominal activities prior to use on the spacecraft.Will work off-nominal hours during special operationsWill become a resident expert in the Flight Software code for the satelliteAdditional Skills & Qualifications:B.S.
in engineering, mathematics, physics or computer sciences with at least 1-4 years of related experience.Prior experience in spacecraft operations: real-time satellite console (command, control, and telemetry analysis) operations certification.Spacecraft subsystem/instrument performance analysis experience.
Experience with the subsystems engineering efforts done in an offline setting.
Windows and UNIX experience.
Experience with C, BASH, PERL, and Python Languages would be a plus but other SW language experience is also applicable.Experience with XML and SQL databases is a plus.The following are skills desired for this position:Knowledge of the Flight Software modules for a spacecraft and in spacecraft controls.
ITOS and STOL experience.Experience with data processing, flight dynamics and ground networks.Experience with Ilog rule developmentExperience Level:Intermediate Level About Actalent: Actalent connects passion with purpose.
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