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Software Engineer III/Sr/Principal, Flight Software (Contractor)

About Sierra Space

Builds reusable spaceplanes, expandable habitats, satellite buses, and mission subsystems for NASA, defense, and commercial space customers.

Series C · 1000–2000 people

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minimum qualifications below. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. Sierra Space’s Defense division focuses on the design, build, and operations of small satellites in support of commercial services and national security space. As a Flight Software Engineer, your primary responsibility will be designing and developing flight software and algorithms solutions for spacecraft missions for both civilian and DoD applications. These designs stem from understanding, analyzing and evaluating satellite and constellation capabilities, mission concepts, and system requirements. Your work will ensure we meet customer requirements by making data-driven decisions in architecting, implementing and testing the design in a testbed prototype and subsequent delivery of the flight code. Along the way, you will contribute to analyses of various architectures that include space
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