Senior Flight Software Engineer

About the role

Logos Space is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite system purpose-built to serve the connectivity needs of the commercial enterprise users and government users. We will help fill an important gap in the market, providing resilient, high-performance satellite-based connectivity services to enterprise and government customers worldwide. Business customers have contracts with agreed-upon performance standards for their broadband, and Logos will build these capabilities into the system from the beginning. Speed and reliability are the foundation of the system. Logos is designed to extend cloud and data center network connectivity anywhere in the world to fixed, seaborne, and airborne terminals.

Logos is led by a team of highly experienced engineers with proven track records in the networking and satellite industries.

POSITION SUMMARY

The software engineering team at Logos Space work on the design, development, flight validation, assembly, integration, test, and inflight success of the logos fleet of spacecraft. Software engineering is responsible for ensuring that flight avionics on the logos bus and payload are fully validated ensuring the success of our network via analysis and test. Software engineers will support architecture design activities from the idea stage to flight.

You should be prepared to work and thrive in a fast moving environment where you are comfortable taking vague design ideas and turning them into tangible hardware ready for test and flight. We are seeking engineers who love to solve hard problems.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Responsible for integration and selection of microcontrollers and microprocessors

- Development of high-throughput, embedded real-time software in C/C++

- Experience building software for embedded systems or custom SoCs (e.g., ARM Cortex, ESP32, RISC-V).

- Own product delivery timeline through entire lifecycle (design, development, prototyping, production build, system integration, and on-orbit operations)

- Generate and release technical drawings, specifications, test procedures, and reports in support of the hardware design and validation.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Education

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) with relevant software design and analysis work experience

Experience

- A minimum of 5 years experience with controls hardware development, prototyping, and validation using C/C++

- Expertise in one or several communication protocols (TCP/IP, UART, SPI, etc.)

- Deep understanding of modern DevOps tools and workflows

- Knowledge of automation/scripting software such as Python and MATLAB

- Proven track record of working with hardware through the entire product life cycle

- Self-motivated with strong organizational, written, and oral communication skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS