Flight Software Engineer, Capella Space
$102.8-136.7k
Space-based radar Earth observation satellites
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Space-based radar Earth observation satellites
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$102.8-136.7k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make timely Earth observation an essential tool for commerce, conservation, and well-being.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for people excited about tackling seemingly impossible challenges, learning new skills and concepts, and helping each other achieve success
- We encourage you to bring your unique perspective to help make us stronger, including applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech
- You will have a demonstrable track record of working with complex systems, understanding systems architecture, and setting the engineering development plan making complex radar technologies easy to use
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related field of study
- Ability to support a design through all software lifecycles including initial schematic review and architectural tradeoffs, preliminary and detailed design, implementation, integration, and test
- Experience working with real-time embedded systems - both hardware and software, including low-level drivers
- Hands on experience developing, testing, and debugging hard real-time software (bare-metal or RTOS)
- Familiarity with embedded Linux, Linux kernel modules, and standard Linux tools
- Strong knowledge of programming compiled (C, C++) and scripted (Python, shell script, etc.) languages
- Experience writing software for microcontrollers and other embedded systems, e.g., Xilinx Zynq SoCs
- Familiarity with software configuration management
- Hand-on experience with lab equipment and electronics hardware, e.g., oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Capella Employees must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce, as applicable
What the job involves
- Capella Space is a highly collaborative team environment, providing an opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the space industry, though no prior space experience is needed
- As a software engineer on the Flight Software team, you will be writing the software that runs our satellite fleet in space! You will interact daily with other software engineers, FPGA developers, electrical engineers, and various other subsystem owners to develop, maintain, and implement new features for the spacecraft software
- Design, develop, and maintain flight software for satellite systems
- Collaborate with EE, FPGA, and ground software engineers to ensure seamless integration between hardware and software
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Write and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure robustness and reliability of the software
- Develop software documentation and provide cross-training to other team members
- Troubleshoot and resolve software issues in a timely manner
- Participate in the software development life cycle, from requirement analysis to deployment
- Support integration and operations teams with software-related queries
Our take
Earth observation in the form of satellite imagery is in high demand. With climate change, supply chain, and defense operations all requiring high-quality observation data, the race is on to provide the clearest, most timely images - and Capella Space is one private company leading the charge.
Capella Space commands a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation in low-earth orbit that clients can use to access real-time visibility of facts on the ground. It’s the first US company to do so, and has won a correspondingly leading slate of customers that include the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. Air Force, Geospatial, and RSI.
As the urgency of addressing global issues increases, the demand for Capella Space’s services is almost certain to rise. This puts the company in a great position to pursue further success, having already established itself as a key player in the market. It has also seen good funding that will help expand its imaging capacity and develop new data products, and has become one of the first commercial earth observation companies to secure a contract to work with the government on its program to boost US resilience in space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2023
$60m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Apr 2022
$97m
SERIES C
Total funding: $234m
Company benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Disability and Life Insurance
- 401k plan
- Equity
- Health Care, Dependent Care FSAs
- Commuter/Parking Flex Spending
- Flexible Vacation Policy
- In-Office Lunch Program
- Dog Friendly Work Environment (SF)
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Payam Banazadeh
(Board Member & Founder)Worked in software development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ultimately taking up a Lead Project Engineer role there. Subsequently worked as a Project Manager at Stanford. Is now a member of advisory committees at the NOAA and University of Texas, Austin, as well as a Board Member at the National Security Space Association (NSSA).
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