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Embedded Flight Software Engineer - Lunar Terrain Vehicle
(NASA LTVS Award Contingent)
Houston Texas
About Intuitive Machines
Intuitive Machines is an innovative and cutting-edge space company making cislunar space accessible to both public and private customers. Our mission is to further science and exploration, communications, and economic progress from the Earth to the Moon and beyond. With the first commercial lunar landing in history, multiple NASA lunar missions in development, and additional private missions on our manifest, we pride ourselves in supporting our customers and the nation in paving the way to return humans to the surface of the Moon. Our world-class team includes experts in all aspects of spacecraft subsystems design, development, and test, on-orbit operations, and safety.
About The Position
We are looking to add strong and qualified Flight Software Engineers to join our software teams. We proudly put forward an exceptional team that lives at the intersection of rigor and agility. We are seeking the best, the brightest and the driven to be part of the commercial space revolution on and around the moon.
*Employment in this role is contingent upon NASA selecting Intuitive Machines as the winner of the LTVS program, scheduled for announcement later in 2025.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and maintain flight software features and improvements
- Analyze, test and perform I/O performance assessments upon integrated hardware/software solutions
- Interface with hardware design and development
- Draft unit/integration tests and coordinate high-level testing of features
Requirements: (This position is posted across multiple levels, Entry - Technical Lead, with multiple openings)
- B.S. in physics or engineering domain
- Experience in C/C development
- Experience with hardware/software integration or Embedded development
- Familiar with serial communications protocols (RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, etc.)
- Familiar with packetized communications protocols (IP/UDP, IP/TCP)
- Organized, thorough and methodical approach to software quality and testing
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Capable of both high quantity and high quality output
- Penchant for self-starting and problem solving
- Ability to work in a fast paced, hard charging, high stakes environment
- A passion for spaceflight
Highly Desired:
- Experience with GSFC Core Flight Software (CFS) framework
- Experience with device driver implementations
- Experience with SpaceWire communications protocol
- Experience with logging frameworks and their architecture
- Experience with xUnit compliant test frameworks
- Experience with Windows and POSIX-based operating systems
- Experience with Docker-based containerization
- Experience in an agile / scrum development environment
- Experience in Gitflow coordinated configuration management schemes
EEOC
Intuitive Machines is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.