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Staff Engineer, Flight Software in USA new

  • BlackSky
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

  • Provide subject matter expertise for ADCS and imaging payload subsystem software design and development.
  • Lead software design, development, unit testing, release processes, and delivery of mission-critical features and bug fixes.
  • Support software requirements development and management with Systems Engineering.
  • Ensure documentation, testing, inspection, and analysis verify requirements and quality goals.
  • Lead or participate in Agile-like planning, status meetings, standups, tasking, and cross-functional delivery.
  • Collaborate with embedded systems, satellite operations, mission management, and other engineering teams.
  • Provide technical leadership across multiple critical programs from design through execution and mentor team members.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 10 years of experience delivering and maintaining commercial or embedded software in a production environment.
  • Expertise writing clean and maintainable C/C++ and Python code.
  • Expertise in embedded systems, ideally Embedded Linux and related build systems such as Buildroot and Yocto.
  • Proven experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products on time and on budget.
  • Strong root-cause analysis, problem-solving, written communication, verbal communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision.
  • US-born citizenship is required according to program requirements.
  • Preferred qualifications include an advanced degree, embedded Linux board bring-up, hardware interface experience, high-speed interface experience, FreeRTOS, u-boot or other boot loaders, space industry experience, satellite component familiarity, and embedded software experience relevant to ADCS/GNC.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life, AD&D, voluntary life, and voluntary AD&D insurance, with BlackSky paying 100% of employee-only medical, dental, and vision premiums and contributing $100 per month toward out-of-pocket expenses.
  • 15 days of PTO, 11 company holidays, four floating holidays, paid volunteerism leave, parental leave, and other leave benefits.
  • 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options with employer matching, Flexible Spending Accounts, and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • Employee Assistance, Travel Assistance, employer matching donations, professional development, and a choice of Mac or PC.
  • Professional swag.
  • Preferred location is Tukwila, WA, with 1–2 days per week in the Tukwila office; strong remote candidates may be considered.

Salary: $155k - $180k/yr

BlackSky

BlackSky builds and operates a constellation of small Earth‑observation satellites and a real‑time geospatial intelligence platform that delivers imagery and automated analytics to government and commercial customers. It sells subscriptions and tasking services for near real‑time monitoring of st...

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