Senior Software Project Engineer II

To conform with the United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., conditional resident, asylee or refugee (protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

About the role

At CesiumAstro, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross-functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you.

The CesiumAstro software team designs complex firmware and software for state-of-the-art aerospace systems. As a member of the software engineering team, you will help facilitate and improve the execution of the software development lifecycle at CesiumAstro. You will collaborate with software engineers, program managers, customers, and other stakeholders to plan and manage execution in a fast-paced engineering environment. Activities include maintaining backlog health, holding software standups, and communicating project status to diverse stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has experience managing embedded system firmware development in high-reliability systems. Experience with both agile and traditional design methodologies is desirable, including agile and v-model flows. Further, the ideal candidate has some first-hand embedded system software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Create software development plans subject to cost and schedule constraints.
• Lead periodic planning meetings, retrospectives, and daily standups.
• Communicate project status to a wide variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Represent the software engineering team to programmatic stakeholders.
• Maintain software issue tracking systems and projects such as Jira.
• Prioritize feature development based on varied and sometimes conflicting stakeholder inputs.
• Interface to external parties including customers and vendors.
• Ensure consistent and correct software development lifecycle execution.
• Continuously improve software project execution processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience required including at least 1 year of embedded software development experience and at least 3 years of software project management experience.
• Excellent communication skills, especially in tailoring to a target audience.
• Familiarity with board-level hardware design processes as they pertain to software development.
• Knowledgeable on multiple software product lifecycle and management approaches including Agile and V-model.
• Competency with software lifecycle management tools such as issue tracking (Jira preferred), requirements management, configuration management, etc.
• Experience project managing firmware development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing products for deployment into aerospace systems.
• Experience with government contract program management.
• Experience with requirements-driven engineering processes.
• Experience with DO-178C Software Certification.

Benefits

Full-time employment offers include company stock options and a generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability and retirement plans.