Database Engineer (Spacecraft)

This position can be located at multiple sites across the United States. Work locations: Arlington VA, Denver CO, Houston, TX or Merritt Island, FL

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc offers advanced solutions to meet the most complex U.S. defense, security, space, and intelligence requirements. Celebrating over 50 years in the US, we remain a trusted government partner, leveraging world-class satellite, laser communication, rotor and fixed wing solutions to help our national security, defense and space focused customers meet their missions.

Airbus U.S. looks to employ a commitment driven team, dedicated to enabling our customer's mission success. We are committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment and a welcoming and engaging staff. With competitive compensation and superior employee benefits, as well as a commitment to fostering individual career growth, Airbus U.S. is the place where top talent wants to work.

Position Summary:

Airbus U.S. is looking for an enthusiastic and creative software engineer to support creation and maintenance of various spacecraft Telemetry and Telecommand (TM/TC) databases. We're looking for candidates who can bring exceptional database and programming to support our flight software development, flight software testing, systems engineering and flight operations teams.

Position Responsibilities:

The TM/TC Software Engineer's primary responsibility will be contributing to the development and testing of Airbus U.S.'s satellite TM/TC database. This engineer will be involved in the full lifecycle of the database from program inception through operations. However, because we are a small team where each person takes on many roles, this engineer will also contribute to mission concept development, supporting flight software development and operations training/support. Being at the cutting edge of space technology, we need someone who is eager to learn, grow, and take on new and potentially unfamiliar challenges. There is no shortage of fascinating problems to solve.

The TM/TC Software Engineer will provide support of complex assignments, under the leadership of the Software Team Lead and Software Engineering Manager. The TM/TC Software Engineer will grow to have project and subject matter responsibility and authority.

TM/TC Database 75%

• Create and maintain proprietary TM/TC database
• Work with System Engineering/Stakeholders to define command and telemetry packet definitions to support mission success
• Generate TM/TC Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
• Resolve errors and bugs in existing databases as needed
• Provide various tools to support automated template generation for flight software and test systems
• Assist in database documentation for developers and stakeholders
• Support correct versioning of various spacecraft configuration files

Flight Software 10%

• Upgrade existing flight software for new missions
• Contribute to the development of new satellite flight software for Airbus U.S. satellite platforms
• Develop in-house tools to analyze flight software performance and assess its compatibility with new mission and ConOps
• Develop and execute flight software verification and validation tests at the unit, module, subsystem, and platform level
• Work with manufacturing engineers to support installation onto the hardware-in-the-loop test environments and eventual flight hardware
• Participate in anomaly resolution activities and patch existing flight software

Software Integration and Test 10%

• Develop and execute FSW verifications tests using both proprietary satellite digital twin software and a Hardware in the Loop (HIL) FlatSat.
• Establish and document test methodologies and descriptions to test compliance with Airbus and customer-based requirements.
• Develop and implement software and tools for ground support equipment to test and validate flight software.
• Contribute to document management, including versioning, bug reporting, and test plan documentation.
• Oversee and conduct official validation tests.

Additional Responsibilities 5%

• Support working groups, both internal and with customers and/or vendors