Embedded Engineer with Python

Job Description:

· As a Software Development Engineer, you will be a member of the inter-satellite link (ISL) team, focusing on the design, implementation, and

· deployment of software systems to manufacture and test in-house hardware developed for communications. You will be responsible for

· identifying top level requirements and ensuring high quality and innovative designs are pursued, while also supporting other Project Kuiper

· colleagues with reviewing and improving manufacturing and testing system designs. You will work with a variety of stakeholders across software,

· hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams to help stand up Kuiper's production capabilities and verification processes.

Responsibilities:

· Develop high level testing automation scripts and management software for hardware manufacturing and Quality Assurance (QA) testing

· Participate in the full life-cycle of development from planning all the way to deployment and maintenance stages

· Collaborate with design teams, test teams, process teams and software teams to design and implement software and hardware necessary for manufacturing

· Write requirements and interface with the software team to deliver automated packages for manufacturing

· Influence system test design and calibration by making informed decisions on the selection of technology, data sources, algorithms, and test systems

Basic Qualifications:

· Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

· 3+ years of software development experience

· 3+ years of experience with Python programming language

· 3+ years of experience with troubleshooting/debugging with hardware

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience developing safety-critical and/or autonomous systems for space applications

· Experience developing test equipment and instrumentation software

· Experience with hardware testing and debugging

· Working knowledge of National Instruments TestStand, LabView, and Matlab software development

· Knowledge of Linux environments

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Story Behind the Need – Business Group & Key Projects

Group:

Reason for Request:

· Workflow

Can you give me a little detail about your team culture?

· Mainly be working with internal Client employees [Engineers, software engineers, electrical engineers.]

· Pure software job

· Will need to be independent when working in labs, etc.

· The big team split into two.

· 20 total people on team, 10 on each divided team.

· The manufacturing software team is what they would be a part of.

· Must have good communication skills, replying to messages, reporting, making it to meetings.

· Give strong updates to leadership.

· Must be able to adapt depending on needs.

· Potential for working more than 40 hrs/wk depending on business need because of pushing for delivery.

Typical Day in the Role:

Extension?

· Potential but not guaranteed

Conversion?

· Potential but not guaranteed

Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition

Role interesting:

· Client is putting satellites into space, and this is one of the teams helping to build those satellites.

· Build the most interesting component of the satellite, which is optical lasers.

· Person will get to work with a board and software that high powers lasers.

· Handle all the communication on this team with the satellites.

· Professional lab environment and leading experts in the field of space computing, electrical engineers.

· Get to work for Client as well which is a plus.

· Candidate Requirements

REQUIRED SKILLS

· 3+ years of software development experience

· 3+ years of experience with Python programming language [Required]

· 3+ years of experience with troubleshooting/debugging with hardware is a huge plus

· Working with embedded board, PCB's.

· Someone not afraid to work with a physical board as opposed to a computer screen.

· This experience/BG is required.

· Will be doing a lot of automated testing on these boards.

Years of Experience:

· 3 plus years

Degree or Certification:

· Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Leadership Principle:

· Ownership

· Bias for Action

· Deliver Results

· Earned Trust

Top 3 must-have hard skills

· Strong Python experience is a must

· Experience with hardware is a plus, as well as automated testing.

· Good communication skills are MUST