SOC Engineer - Orion Software Operations Center Support

About the role

This is a full-time position located onsite in Houston, TX or Denver, CO, supporting the Aerospace / Space Exploration / Flight Software industry, specifically the Orion Software Operations Center. The role involves working on program areas such as AR3 Docking and NP0155 (FOD) Sustainment Activities for AR3 and AR4.

Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, and maintain mission-critical software supporting Orion operational environments.
• Troubleshoot complex software and system integration issues.
• Support software deployment, testing, validation, and sustainment activities.
• Analyze and resolve networking and communication issues across distributed systems.
• Develop and maintain multi-threaded software applications.
• Collaborate with simulation, flight software, and mission operations teams.
• Support containerized software environments and deployment pipelines.
• Participate in requirements development, architecture reviews, implementation, testing, and operational support.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of software reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM field is required, along with 5+ years of software development and systems integration experience.

• Extensive experience with C++, software troubleshooting and root cause analysis, Linux development environments, and network protocols (particularly RUC/RF communications).
• Experience with multi-threaded application development, Python development, container technologies, and the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) is also required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Qt Creator.
• Experience integrating and troubleshooting emulators.
• Experience with QEMU.
• Experience supporting Orion spacecraft programs.
• Aerospace or mission operations software experience.
• Experience supporting NASA or Department of Defense programs.