Jobs at Astro Digital

• Load and configure flight software builds on engineering units, flight hardware, and integration testbeds
• Configure and verify software parameters on flight hardware to support system bring-up, testing, and mission readiness

• Design, develop, test, and deploy flight software for spacecraft and hosted payloads including for command and telemetry processing, power control, thermal management, communications, fault management, onboard autonomy, mission sequencing, and payload operations
• Implement software using modern C++ for real-time, multi-threaded Linux applications

• Write system test plans
• Perform and automate tests and test data analysis for spacecraft

• Develop and maintain embedded software for spacecraft subsystems, including sensors, actuators, power systems, and communication interfaces
• Write and debug low-level drivers and board support code

• Contribute to defining the general architecture of our offering across our products
• Requirement allocation across hardware, software, embedded systems, in-house components, and external components

• Develop and maintain:
• Performance budgets for vehicle systems

• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or closely related field
• 7-15 years of experience as a mechanical design engineer in the aerospace field

• Partner with Embedded Software Engineers to evolve internally developed spacecraft subsystem software into customer-facing products
• Identify opportunities to increase software reuse, standardization, and configurability across subsystem offerings

About Astro Digital

Astro Digital designs, builds, and operates a diverse range of small satellite systems supporting space-based turnkey missions for several business applications, including earth observation, communications, in-orbit demonstrations, risk reduction, science, and exploration. As...

• Learn all our radios to at least a technician level.
• Be a liaison to and learn/document the technical details of all our ground stations and their nuances

• Building both spacecraft system level and unit level models as required using Thermal Desktop
• Working with other disciplines to gather requirements and inputs necessary to complete spacecraft thermal analysis