📍 Location: Torrance, CA
📄 Employment Type: Full-Time
🏢 Work Arrangement: 100% On-site, Monday–Friday
🚀 Start Date: TBD
💰 Compensation: TBD — based on skills and experience
Important Screening Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- Open to candidates across experience levels.
- Strong C/C++ programming experience.
- Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS).
- Familiarity with hardware/software integration and real-time system constraints.
- Experience with simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
- Must be able to work on-site in Torrance, CA.
- Active or eligible for a Top Secret security clearance.
- U.S. work authorization and applicable export-control requirements apply.
About the Role
We are seeking Flight Software Engineers to design, develop, integrate, and test high-performance real-time embedded software for advanced flight systems.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building robust software for demanding, safety-critical environments, while working closely with GNC, systems, and hardware teams.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for engineers who enjoy solving difficult real-time systems problems and can develop reliable flight software while working closely with hardware, GNC, and systems engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test real-time embedded flight software.
- Collaborate with GNC engineers, systems engineers, and hardware teams.
- Develop and maintain software for high-reliability and safety-critical environments.
- Support simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight testing.
- Participate in root-cause analysis and debugging across software and system interfaces.
- Follow rigorous software lifecycle and configuration-management practices.
- Support software verification and validation activities.
- Contribute to development processes, tools, and engineering standards.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and best practices relevant to flight software and real-time systems.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- C/C++ programming experience.
- Experience with RTOS.
- Understanding of hardware/software integration.
- Familiarity with real-time system constraints.
- Experience with GNC systems or other control-intensive applications.
- Strong understanding of simulation and HIL testing.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment.
- Active or eligible for a Top Secret security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Flight software experience for missile, launch vehicle, or spacecraft systems.
- FPGA-based systems experience.
- Embedded software optimization experience.
- Secure software development or cybersecurity knowledge.
- Familiarity with agile or iterative development methodologies.
- Hands-on software verification, validation, and integration experience in defense environments.