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Actalent Software Engineer - Ada in San Jose, California
Description:
Maxar Space builds satellites and space systems for a wide variety of government and commercial customers. Its products include high-powered direct-to-home broadcast satellites, commercial weather satellites, digital audio radio satellites, Earth observation satellites and spot-beam satellites for data networking applications.
These 6 Engineers will be working on the PPE (Power and Propulsion Element) - a NASA project for a planned solar electric ion propulsion module, a major component of the Lunar Gateway. The PPE will allow access to the entire lunar surface and a wide range of lunar orbits and double as a space tug for visiting craft.
Responsibilities:
Ada95 Software Development and compilation for an ICU (integrated computer unit)
Developing flight software for ACS (attitude control system)
Unit testing of code (must be willing to do both development and testing)
RTOS software development on GreenHills
Breakdown of Roles:
4 roles will be focused on ACS (attitude control system) SW development which includes ACS IO, Manual Sequencer, Momentum Error Computation, HGA Control Laws, OO Control Laws ( Senior level roles)
2 roles will be focused on Unit Testing which includes Global Estimator, GE Feedback, ST Processing, TLM, ACS FDIR Code refactor, AMB Code Refactor
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
Strong Ada, C/C++ experience
Real-time embedded (RTOS) experience
Experience and willingness to do unit testing of code
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