Embedded Firmware Engineer

Role: Embedded Firmware Engineer

Location: Hawthorne, California City in southwestern Los Angeles County, California

Type: Full Time- Onsite

Benefits
Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, client covers 100% of each base-policy
Access to HSA, FSA, 401K, and commuter benefits
Unlimited paid time off, two-weeks per year minimum mandatory use
Healthy lunches provided daily

Responsibilities
Architect and implement the flight software for client s first satellite, including selecting and implementing operating systems, mission management software, command and data handling, and communication software.
Write software that works the first time, is easily validated, modular, and can be easily introspected.
Deliver highly reliable, fault tolerant and remote-updatable software systems that are robust to the LEO environment.
Collaborate with avionics engineers on component and processor selection and electrical system architecture.
Implement and/or integrate software for electromechanical components such as star sensors, ADCS, motors, battery manage systems, thermal systems, communication systems, sail deployment mechanism, and cameras.
Design embedded software systems to readily support satellite subsystem hardware testing.
Design embedded software for ease of validation and implement tests, including unit tests, software simulation and HIL/flatsat.
Set best practices and lead by example in software development, version control, release, and validation processes.
Ideal Qualifications
Experience implementing C and/or C++ software on autonomous electromechanical systems such as robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, or spacecraft.
A strong understanding of software design and architecture for high reliability systems, including design for fault tolerance, validation, remote operation, and update.
Experience architecting high-reliability electromechanical systems, either independently or in collaboration with avionics engineers.
Experience operating and learning from a deployed electromechanical system.
You thrive with a high level of independence and autonomy and collaborate gladly. You understand when the right time for deliberation is and when is the right time to build quickly and let the work speak for itself.
Reflect is building a revolutionary low-cost high-scale satellite for the new space age. You will not overly rely on pattern-matching from outdated aerospace technologies and strive to seek and invent new solutions enable massive scale at 1/10th the cost and time.

Even if you don't meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you. Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.
We are also interested in carving out unique roles for unconventional people that we are excited about working with.