Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Ispace, Tokyo, Japan
- Pay
- Not listed by the employer
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Level
- Senior
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- Sep 2, 2026
About the role
ispace is looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to develop our next generation ULTRA lunar lander.
Key Responsibilities - Devlop embedded software system for spacecraft, including lander and other transportation system elements. Be responsible for the development of boards and other components by hardware engineering and test tools for integrations of all other components, and setting up the environment for development.
- Lead the identification of the software requirement from system level requirement, and break down them to software design, archicture and implementation to satisfy the requirements.
- Collaborate with other sub system engineers such as avionics, ground segment, system engineers to identify software architecture design, some component or technology selection, including make or buy decisions, and on avionics and propulsion with other design and analysis team members as appropriate
- Design the software archicture with DSP/Microprocessor selection, and develop BSP ( Board Support Package ) and evaluate the feasibility of new design to meet the requirement
- Manage schedules, costs and quality on each function assigned to meet requirements. Also break down functions of components to tasks and track status and issues. Report all of them to the lead or manager
- Lead the software engineers by any appropriate modern methods of development to construct the high reliability and quality, and save resources from architcture point of view
- Design, coding, review, integration, test, support and enhance software solutions for assigned spacecraft such as attitude or motion control, command, communication, power and data management and fault protection. Also describe the documentations and keep updating them at all phases
- Lead the design activties for current and future spacecraft software achitcture with extenal ( component supplier ) and internal stakeholders ( Software engineers and other subsystem engineers ) In addition, lead the new functions design and problem analysis from architecture point of view with strong accountablity.
- 着陸船やその他の輸送システム要素を含む、宇宙船用組み込みソフトウェア開発。
- システムレベルからソフトウェア要件の特定を主導。要件を満たすソフトウェア設計、アーキテクチャ、および実装に落とし込む。
- アビオニクス、地上セグメント、システムエンジニアなどの他のサブシステムエンジニアと協力し、ソフトウェアアーキテクチャの設計、意思決定や購入の決定を含むコンポーネントまたはテクノロジーの選択など他の設計および分析チームのメンバーと適切に推進、遂行する。
- DSP /マイクロプロセッサを選択してソフトウェアアーキテクチャを設計、BSPを開発し、要件を満たす設計の実現可能性を評価する。
- スケジュール、コスト、および品質を適切に管理する。また、コンポーネントの機能をタスクに分解し、ステータスと問題を追跡し、リードやマネージャーと適宜共有、報告する。
- 高い信頼性、品質を構築しリソースを節約しながら、最適で最新の開発方法を用いてソフトウェアエンジニアをリードする。
- 宇宙船のモーションコントロール、コマンド、通信、電力およびデータ管理、故障保護などにかかわるソフトウェアソリューションの設計、コーディング、レビュー、統合、テスト、サポート、および強化。また、それらに関するドキュメントについて説明し、各フェーズで適宜更新する。
- 社内外の関係者との協業をリードし、宇宙船のソフトウエアアーキテクチャーのデザインを決定する。また、システムレベルでの新規機能追加、及び問題解析について、強固なリーダーシップとアカウンタビリティをもって対応する。
Basic Qualification - 10+ years of experience designing and coding embedded software for high-reliability applications
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Listed on Ispace's Lever job board; checked 24 h ago. First seen by us 24 h ago. Being listed doesn't mean the team is actively interviewing. We found this board in a public directory and haven't yet confirmed it against the company's own careers page.