Flight Software Engineer

Flight Software Engineer - Space Startup, Torrance, CAUp to $250K base + equity | On-site | US person requiredWe're hiring a founding flight software engineer for a seed-stage space company in Torrance. Founders are ex-SpaceX.The missionSpace domain awareness and contested space operations. Proximity operations, formation flying, autonomous manoeuvring, and deorbiting uncooperative spacecraft. The target doesn't know you're coming, you don't know its exact geometry, it may be tumbling, and there's no ground station in the loop.Two vehicles launch this year and become the on-orbit test bed.The roleThe architecture isn't defined. You'd define it.COTS hardware today, with make-versus-buy decisions as the company matures. Flight software, GN&C and autonomy are three separate stacks - this is pure FSW.What we are looking for5+ years writing embedded flight software that has flownDeep C/C++ on RTOS, bare metal, or embedded LinuxBoard bring-up, drivers, bootloaders - comfortable at the hardware/software boundaryFault tolerance in a radiation environment: watchdogs, scrubbing, designing for the reset rather than preventing itSomeone who sits down and codes. Not a V&V reviewer.The trade, honestlySeed stage. Salary sits at a premium to a Series D company and the upside is in the equity - ISO options, five-year vest, one-year cliff, and everyone gets it.On-site, five days, Torrance. Relocation assistance available. US person required - no sponsorship, no exceptions.If you've been waiting for a build-from-scratch problem, message me.Dominik Jegor | ACE Partnersdominik.jegor@acepartners.com424 334 8322