Description:
Maxar Space builds satellites and space systems for a wide variety of government and commercial customers. Its products include high-powered direct-to-home broadcast satellites, commercial weather satellites, digital audio radio satellites, Earth observation satellites and spot-beam satellites for data networking applications.
These 6 Engineers will be working on the PPE (Power and Propulsion Element) - a NASA project for a planned solar electric ion propulsion module, a major component of the Lunar Gateway. The PPE will allow access to the entire lunar surface and a wide range of lunar orbits and double as a space tug for visiting craft.
Responsibilities:
- Ada95 Software Development and compilation for an ICU (integrated computer unit)
- Developing flight software for ACS (attitude control system)
- Unit testing of code (must be willing to do both development and testing)
- RTOS software development on GreenHills
Breakdown of Roles:
- 4 roles will be focused on ACS (attitude control system) SW development which includes ACS IO, Manual Sequencer, Momentum Error Computation, HGA Control Laws, OO Control Laws
- 2 roles will be focused on Unit Testing which includes Global Estimator, GE Feedback, ST Processing, TLM, ACS FDIR Code refactor, AMB Code Refactor
Skills:
ada95, Embedded software, flight software, C/c , FSW, agile, ACS, gnc, 5545, satellite, NASA, cFS, spacewire, attitude control, greenhills, vxworks
Top Skills Details:
ada95,Embedded software,flight software,C/c
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
- Strong Ada, C/C experience
- Real-time embedded (RTOS) experience
- Experience and willingness to do unit testing of code
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