Job Description
Job Description
Velos is a full-service engineering and technical services company supporting agencies such as the DoD, NASA, and NOAA. As an SBA-certified HUBZone small business, Velos combines agile and highly skilled engineering and technical support-delivering unmatched execution to our customers. Our government relations consulting business area allows us to represent and support leaders in the defense, aerospace, intelligence, and related industries with decades of experience in market analysis and strategic planning.
We are looking for highly qualified candidates for a contract working onsite supporting NRL in Washington, DC
Flight Software Engineer
Minimum Years of Experience: 5
Security Clearance:
SECRET position. Personnel must possess a final DoD granted SECRET security clearance.
Experience/Requirements:
- Provides engineering support of the flight and ground system design and development team to assure system integrity, standards are applied where practical, new and emerging technologies are exploited to the required extent, and the system is developed with the goal of reuse of applicable software components in both ground and space systems to reduce development time and cost.
- Designs and develops all software related to spacecraft bus functions, instrument control, and onboard data processing.
- Develops software for both run-time external commanding, controlling, and configuring; as well as run-time delivery of status, event logs, state of health and telemetry.
- Develops safety-critical applications capable of detecting software and hardware fault and responding to faults in a prescribed manner through isolation or recovery.
- Develops software control of flight systems leveraging real-time sensing and actuating interfaces
- Develops hardware and application specific boot code for establishing baseline flight services and loading OS and application code into execution memory.
- Evaluates and apply advanced mathematical methods and algorithms in software solutions which meet the control and performance requirements of flight systems.
- Develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements.
- Provides specific input to the software components of a system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
- Designs, implements, and integrates software applications or performs software engineering tasks.
- Utilizes software engineering and design methodologies appropriate to the development, integration, and production environment.
- Ensures efficient delivery of software engineering capabilities using industry standards and repeatable processes.
- Mitigates risks, control costs and schedule variance, and effectively manages large scale, integrated software projects.
Salary Range: $70,000-$95,000