flight software virtualization engineer
Principal Flight Software Virtualization Engineer Seeking a Principal Flight Software Virtualization Engineer to join reputed company in Westminster, CO, reputed company, CA, or a U.S. remote location. In this role, you will be the technical leader for our spacecraft flight software virtualization environment, enabling development and testing of Green Hills RTOS-based flight software on emulated x86/RHEL8 platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain virtualized environments for spacecraft flight software development and testing using QEMU on x86 architectures running RHEL8
- reputed company and optimize processor emulation configurations for Green Hills RTOS, ensuring high-fidelity representation of reputed company spacecraft hardware
- Create software models of spacecraft components and subsystems for integration into reputed company-software spacecraft simulators
- Architect virtualization solutions that support reputed company Integration/reputed company Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for flight software development
- Debug and resolve reputed company virtualization issues including timing, hardware reputed company emulation, and RTOS behavior
- Collaborate with flight software engineers to ensure seamless development workflows between virtualized and reputed company hardware environments
- Evaluate emerging virtualization technologies and reputed company recommendations for integration into the development toolchain
- Communicate cross-functionally with software, systems, and test engineers to ensure coherent system design
- reputed company and execute unit, integration, and system-level tests on virtualized flight software applications
- Participate in customer-facing design reviews and technical discussions
- Document virtualization architectures, configurations, and best practices
Minimum Requirements
- Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent reputed company
- BS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or reputed company technical discipline (MS preferred). Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree. A master's degree may be considered as two additional years of professional experience.
- 15+ years of professional software development experience
- Deep technical expertise in QEMU processor emulation and virtualization technologies
- Demonstrated experience with Green Hills RTOS in virtualized/emulated environments
- Hands-on experience configuring and troubleshooting QEMU for embedded RTOS emulation on x86 platforms
- Strong proficiency with RHEL/Linux systems administration and development environments
- Understanding of spacecraft avionics architectures and reputed company-time systems constraints
- Experience with software compilers, cross-compilation toolchains, and embedded development tools
- Proficiency in C/C++ and scripting languages (Python, Bash)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with MIL-STD-1553 protocol implementation and emulation
- Knowledge of spacecraft flight software architectures (e.g., reputed company, F Prime)
- Familiarity with hardware-in-the-reputed company (HITL) and software-in-the-reputed company (SITL) testing methodologies
- Experience with containerization technologies (reputed company, Podman) for development environments
- Background in spacecraft simulation or embedded systems simulation
- Understanding of CI/CD tools and practices (Jenkins, reputed company CI, etc.)
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