Software Engineer Lead

Summary

You will be part of a team of driven and enthusiastic professionals working to revolutionize access to space. Vaya Space is a purpose driven, sustainability focused, and environmentally conscious enterprise dedicated to making a difference for humankind. Vaya's unique vortex-hybrid rocket is projected to disrupt the market, fueled by recycled thermoplastics, it utilizes the equivalent of 2 million discarded plastic bottles per launch. Our breakthrough and patented technologies overcome the safety, affordability, and sustainability issues to transform the space industry, making the world and space a better place.

As a Software Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing the design, development, testing, and documentation of mission critical software for the Dauntless launch vehicle, including both flight and ground systems software.

To be successful, it is vital that you are comfortable working in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, collaborating to develop innovative solutions in all areas, while demonstrating personal leadership, technical competence, and attention to detail. A willingness to branch outside your comfort zone is essential… we’re a small fast-paced company and everyone pitches in when needed.

Travel Required

Up to 10%

Required Security Clearance

None (ITAR Eligible)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and oversight to development of launch vehicle flight, test, and ground support software
• Ensure consistent documentation, testing, and integration of various software products into the overall program
• Interface directly with the launch vehicle development team to integrate flight, test, and ground software into overall launch vehicle design
• Review and develop / update flight and ground software specifications
• Analyze COTS and vendor-proposed ground and flight software to ensure proper integration with the overall vehicle design
• Manage cost, schedule, and performance for ground and flight software development and testing
• Identify and communicate technical, cost, and schedule risks
• Support configuration design studies and test article development
• Develop flight and ground support software to enable robust, real-time, safety-critical, software systems
• Support development of fault tolerant flight software responsible for the overall command and control of an autonomous launch vehicle
• Oversee software development and integration testing efforts to integrate software components, create and run unit tests, and validate on Hardware-in-the-Loop testing
• Produce / review technical documentation for software architecture, design, verification plans
• Provide expert software engineering advice to executive leadership
• Perform other duties as required

Qualifications

with embedded

systems running safety-critical software on a Real-Time Operating

System

or DO-178C )

Preferred Skills and Education

or   previous launch vehicle license requirements