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Flight Software Engineer I

Auckland Production Complex Office💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop, maintain, and support flight software for the Electron rocket and associated ground-based communication systems, operating avionics and hosting guidance, navigation, and control software.

Role type

Junior IC flight software engineer (embedded systems)

Builds

Flight software for launch vehicle avionics and ground segment communications

Domain

Aerospace / Embedded Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

C/C++ development, embedded software development, software architecture design, unit testing, software requirements analysis, avionics simulation, stakeholder communication

Preferred skills

High-reliability software systems experience, networking, radio communications (SDR, encoding), Linux development, Python, data processing

Technologies

C, C++, Linux, Python, SDR

Responsibilities

Develop software and unit tests according to bug-fix and feature requests, Participate in review of flight code merge requests, Facilitate software architecture meetings, Approve software architecture designs, Manage trade-studies, Deploy operational software

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