Axiom Space is building the world’s first commercial space station and is seeking a Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain firmware and flight software for spacecraft and advanced aerospace systems.
Requirements
- Experience with embedded systems, microcontrollers, processors, or SoCs common in aerospace or industrial applications.
- Hands-on experience with RTOS, firmware development, and low-level programming.
- Experience with hardware bring-up, debugging tools (JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers), and embedded toolchains.
- Proficiency with version control (Git), build systems, and continuous integration pipelines.
- Strong understanding of real-time constraints, deterministic execution, and safe/reliable embedded design principles.
- Strong proficiency in C and C++ and familiarity with modern embedded development practices.
- Experience with common communication peripherals (SPI, I2C, UART)
Responsibilities
- Develop, integrate, and maintain firmware and flight software for spacecraft subsystems and avionics.
- Implement features and algorithms supporting flight hardware.
- Work with real-time operating systems (RTOS) and bare-metal environments.
- Design and develop communication interfaces such as UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet, or similar.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers to bring up new boards, debug hardware/software interactions, and develop drivers.
- Participate in software architecture design, code reviews, and continuous integration efforts.
- Develop unit tests, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) tests, and simulation-based verification.
Other
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- 4 to 9 years of professional experience in embedded systems, firmware, or flight software development.
- Must be able to complete a U.S. government background investigation.
- Proof of U.S. Citizenship or US Permanent Residency is a requirement for this position.
- Must be willing to work evenings and weekends as needed to meet critical project milestones.
