(Contract) Flight Operations Software Lead

Location: SeaTac, WA Description: Our client is currently seeking a (Contract) Flight Operations Software Lead for a 12 to 18 month contract with an aerospace company near Seattle, WA. Candidates must be or holders. No C2C.This job will have the following responsibilities:

• Lead a multi-element team in the design, implementation, test, verification, and deployment of flight operations and safety-critical software
• Perform trade studies to determine whether to develop software tools in-house, subcontract work for development, or purchase/adapt existing software for various functions
• Oversee development of rapid prototypes to prove out concepts and quantify technical risks
• Support flight control software operations responsibilities (maintenance, flaw correction, enhancements) across all phases of the spacecraft life cycle, including integration and flight
• Coordinate with mission control infrastructure and mission systems engineers to plan, develop, and lead system verification and qualification to ensure software products that meet system requirements and safety critical standards

• Bachelor of Science in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, aerospace engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant space mission related software development including 5+ years of experience building or deploying flight operations-oriented ground software
• Prior experience in leadership of a software development team over the full life cycle of software development
• Highly experienced in C/C and Python
• Familiarity with Linux environments and comfortable with basic Unix system administration activities

• Experience with interfacing controls software written in C/C/Simulink
• Experience with software development in mission and safety-critical environments, such as DO-178
• Experience with Linux, GNU toolchain, Python, Labview, MATLAB/Simulink, real time operating systems, serial communication
• Experience with fault-tolerant software design, human error assessment and human error fault tolerance
• Experience with GN&C software integration in an embedded system with familiarity with flight sensors and actuators
• Experience developing software systems for the following applications:
• • Telemetry data management, display and archival
  • Fault monitoring and alarm notification systems
  • Human command interfaces, command sequencers
  • Control and scheduling of ground-based tracking and communications stations.
  • Ground based orbit determination and navigation.
  • Mission and activity planning and scheduling and timeline display for space missions.
  • Electronic, distributed team procedure authoring and execution
  • Space mission visualization, including virtual reality systems