Senior Software Engineer at Astroscale

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a venture company that is actively addressing the planet's space debris problem by making serious strides in removing space debris from the planet's orbit. They also collaborate with other companies, organizations, and government agencies in a joint effort to formulate guidelines and laws for responsible space exploration and use.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop flight software for their spacecrafts.
• Duties are not limited to coding, but extends to performing software requirement analysis, software design, validation, verification and maintenance (i.e. whole series of software engineering).
• Collaborate with system and subsystem teams (Command & Data Handling, GNC, Computer Vision, Robotics, and Ground segment) to identify design issues and solutions.
• Coordinate flight software releases from internal and external developers and lead release maintenance and bug-fixes from various verification activities.
• Participate in mission level system testing and provide support from a software perspective
• Provide technical lead for software development team and technical coordination with software development vendors.
• Perform reviews of software deliverables for the software development team and software development vendors.
• Provide mentoring for young engineers.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with hands-on software engineering/development (defining requirements & specifications, architecting, coding, and testing etc).
• Experience in embedded software development.
• Experienced software development leader.
• Experience working with software vendors.
• Business level Japanese and/or English language skills.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with interface specifications and other specification coordination.
• Experience in the development of automatic control systems.
• Knowledge of standard communication protocols.
• Knowledgeable about microcomputers, real-time OS, and middleware.
• Knowledge of scripting languages. (e.g. Python, Matlab, Bash)
• Excellent technical communication and presentation skills.

Salary

6.5 - 9 million yen

Location

Tokyo