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Software Engineer III in USA

  • NASA JPL
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Pasadena, CA

Responsibilities

  • Develop, implement, validate, test, document, and deliver boot code and application software for the PROMISE telecom subsystem and UST radio family.
  • Develop spacecraft command, telemetry, high-speed data, radio modem, housekeeper FPGA, and mixed-signal hardware interfaces.
  • Support DSP algorithm development, FPGA firmware and software integration, subsystem integration, environmental testing, ATLO, and early flight operations.
  • Maintain software release schedules and prepare software flight releases, EIDPs, software plans, design documents, requirements, test plans, and test procedures.
  • Support or lead flight software design reviews, hardware testing, test data analysis, and Software Readiness Certification Records.
  • Prepare technical and management review presentations and contribute to engineering standards, processes, procedures, and policies.
  • Work with a multidisciplinary team of employees, industry partners, and subcontractors while leading engineers when needed.

Requirements

  • BA/BS in Electrical Engineering with at least 6 years of related experience, an MA/MS in a related discipline with at least 4 years, or a PhD in a related discipline with at least 2 years.
  • Strong C/C++ skills and working proficiency in Python.
  • Experience developing software that interfaces directly with FPGA-based systems, data acquisition systems, embedded platforms, or instrumentation.
  • Experience with complex DSP algorithms and spacecraft interfaces including MIL-STD-1553B, SpaceWire, RS-422, and Ethernet.
  • Experience developing software subject to timing, throughput, and data-integrity requirements and testing or debugging it against real hardware.
  • Extensive knowledge of software development, implementation, testing, structured engineering processes, design reviews, and requirements-based verification.
  • Experience with Electra or UST software-defined radio products and space flight hardware is preferred.
  • Ability to develop design requirements, solve engineering problems, work collaboratively, lead engineers, meet deadlines, and communicate effectively.
  • Advanced knowledge in at least one of PWB design and assembly, digital hardware, FPGAs and firmware, microprocessors, or embedded software.
  • Familiarity with electrical and RF test equipment, Windows, Linux, Bash Shell, and shell scripting.
  • Preferred experience includes cost account management, schedule tracking, NASA and laboratory policies, DSP simulation and analysis, CCSDS Proximity-1, USLP, AOS, software testing frameworks, test automation, and test-driven development.
  • Preferred knowledge of Podman, Docker, or Kubernetes.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, wellbeing, retirement, paid time off, learning, rideshare, childcare, flexible schedule, parental leave, and other benefits and perks.
  • Benefits-eligible employees receive benefits effective the first day of the month coincident with or immediately following their start date.
  • The position is based in Pasadena, California, with a campus-like work environment and a stated full-time annual hiring range of $144,664–$176,488.
  • JPL is an equal opportunity employer; eligibility may be restricted for citizens of or people born in designated countries under NASA and federal-facility rules.

Salary: $145k - $176k/yr

NASA JPL

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Pasadena, CA, managed by Caltech. It designs, builds, and operates robotic spacecraft and science instruments for NASA, and develops ground systems like the Deep Space Network; notable missions include the M...

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