Thales
$29-$32/hrBothell, Washington, United Statesjust now
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Embedded Software Engineer
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Design, develop, and validate hard real-time On-board Software for spacecraft applications using C and Ada.
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Job Description
Thales Alenia Space in Italy is leader in the specification, design, development, validation and delivery of the On-board Software (OBSW) in charge of managing various kind of Spacecraft (low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit, geostationary, science/exploration).
The OBSW product provides part of the Spacecraft on-board functions: operational mode management thermal control, electrical power, units and subsystems management, standard Packet Utilization Services (PUS), basic HW resources management and satellite mass memory management.
Key duties:
You will be part of a team having the following duties:
- Support to the production of the OBSW Requirements Baseline (RB).
- Production of the OBSW Technical Specification (TS).
- Design of the OBSW.
- Unit/integration test of the OBSW.
- Validation test against TS with the support of proper test equipment facilities and simulation models.
- Support to validation against RB
You will interface the customer and suppliers and you will cooperate with other Thales departments including project managers, industrial engineering, manufacturing and marketing & sales.
Skills, experience and qualifications required:
- Master degree in Computer Science or equivalent background.
- Knowledge of the ECSS-E-ST-40C and ECSS-Q-ST-80C standards from ESA.
- Knowledge of multi-core processors and hypervisors (preferably PikeOS, XtratuM).
- Experience in designing, developing and debugging hard real-time software applications is preferred.
- Experience in programming with the C and/or Ada 95 language.
- Experience in the software requirements management.
- Knowledge of Unified Modeling Language (UML) for the software design management, preferably usage of Rhapsody for C/Ada
- Knowledge of software quality metrics monitoring, with experience in using Logiscope and Understand for C/Ada (or equivalent tools)
- Organized and methodical approach to the work, with strong communication skills.
- Ability to work both autonomously and in a team.
- Strong attitude to achieve results within time and cost constraints.
- Problem solving attitude.
- Good knowledge of English in writing and speaking.
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Type of contract: Permanent
Experience: 1-7 Years
CCNL Met/Ind – B2 Category
€ 35.884,96 - € 43.126,00
Performance Bonus (PDR): up to € 4.025
At Thales Alenia Space we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales Alenia Space employing around 8,900 employees in 10 countries with 17 sites in Europe and a plant in the US, our mobility policy enables employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad. Thales Alenia Space sees space as a new horizon, helping to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth #SpaceForLife. Great journeys start here, apply now!
How we rate this
Embedded Software Engineer at Thales rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Classification
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Embedded SoftwareReal Time SystemsSoftware DesignSpacecraft SoftwarePikeosXtratumRhapsodyLogiscope
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