Flight Software Engineering Intern
About the role
Internship role on Dispatch's Flight Software team, building software for Spark-1 in Rust and firmware for peripheral boards in C++, with opportunities to work on GNC, power, thermal, and fault management logic for in-space reentry vehicle missions.
Responsibilities
- Own or contribute to flight software for Spark-1 in Rust and firmware for peripheral boards in C++
- Implement GNC, power, thermal, and fault management logic on the flight computer from analysis and simulation models
- Develop command and telemetry handling, packet definitions, drivers for sensors and actuators, and the ground tools that decode them
- Build and maintain test infrastructure, including unit tests, software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop regression, and flatsat automation
- Support integration and test of flight software with avionics hardware and mission operations tools
Qualifications
- Currently pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience through coursework, research, internships, or engineering project teams in embedded software, systems programming, real-time systems, or hardware interfacing
- Familiarity with Rust, C/C++, and Python, and with Linux development and git
- Comfortable writing software that talks to hardware over SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, or Ethernet and testing it against real devices
Skills
About Dispatch
Satellites for manufacturing in space
Dispatch is building refurbishable reentry vehicles that host and return payloads for companies making ultra-high-value materials (semiconductors, biotech, and pharma) that can only be manufactured in space. Right now, these companies have no practical way to manufacture and get their products back to Earth. We solve this bottleneck. We just returned from the Mojave Desert testing our first full-scale reentry heat shield designed to protect the satellite as it returns from space at Mach 20+, built in an apartment for 100x cheaper than competitors. To test, we held it behind a rocket engine to simulate the forces of atmospheric reentry. IT WORKED! Watch here - https://youtu.be/dhlQmnIoptg To scale, we anchor permanent infrastructure in orbit - building high power Autonomous Space Stations designed from day one for "lights-out" manufacturing serviced by the reentry vehicles.
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