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Staff Software Engineer Clearance, Flight Software

Muon Space· Engineering - Software
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Northern VA$228k - $252kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Flight software engineer role focused on designing, developing, integrating, and testing embedded software/firmware for Muon Space satellites, with leadership across projects and collaboration with hardware and cloud backend teams.

Responsibilities

  • Integral member of the team defining and building Muon’s satellite bus and payload platform
  • Translate concepts and requirements into design and working implementations, supporting through to on-orbit operations
  • Design, bring up, and support the embedded software environment that runs in our satellite flight systems and peripherals using ARM Cortex-M CPUs
  • Participate in evaluating and selecting technologies for our software foundation
  • Provide technical leadership to key projects, organizing cross-functional teams to deliver mission critical capabilities
  • Develop application, platform, and driver functionality in our flight software environment and teach others how to use it
  • Integrate compute and peripheral subsystems in both software and hardware
  • Develop technical strategy documents for an entire organization or multiple teams, including architectural patterns, shared libraries, and common services
  • Collaborate with hardware team members on the design and bring up of Muon hardware
  • Collaborate with software team members to set flight software architecture, select infrastructure and tools, and communicate with cloud backends
  • Participate in developing software and hardware-in-the-loop test strategies

Qualifications

  • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
  • 7+ years experience as a software engineer in a team environment
  • Strong C/C++ programming, with some practical familiarity of other languages
  • Great embedded systems fundamentals: resource-efficient design, low-level drivers, bit manipulation, responsive software and IRQ handling, RTOS frameworks, I/O and communication buses
  • Integration and control of external hardware devices
  • Read and understand hardware data sheets
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Experience working on government/defense projects
  • Current TS security clearance

Skills

Required:C/C++ programmingEmbedded systemsARM Cortex-MHardware/software integrationRTOSCommunication protocolsReading hardware datasheets

Benefits

  • equity compensation
  • medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k retirement plan
  • short & long term disability and life insurance
  • three weeks paid vacation
  • 12 paid holidays
  • unlimited sick time
  • paid parental leave
Last updated Oct 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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