Star Catcher Industries, Inc., located in
Jacksonville, Florida, has an opportunity for a
Software Engineer - Embedded & Flight Systems to support the development of space-to-space power beaming spacecraft and the Star Catcher Network, its orbital power grid.
Key Responsibilities- Implement and validate real-time embedded software for spacecraft payload and subsystem control under established architecture.
- Work closely with cross-functional members of the engineering organization to develop and evaluate interfaces between hardware and software, and operational performance requirements for the overall system.
- Develop device drivers, middleware, and board bring-up support alongside hardware teams, including APIs, board support packages (BSPs), and health and status reporting.
- Build automated unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop test suites, using test frameworks and software coverage tools (e.g., Python-based frameworks) as applicable.
- Support fault-injection testing and environmental test campaigns (TVAC, vibration, EMI/EMC).
- Implement communication interfaces using protocols such as SPI, IC, UART, CAN, Ethernet, RS-422, and, where applicable, SpaceWire and CCSDS standards.
- Support hardware and software integration and test activities across mission computing and memory systems.
- Participate in design and architecture reviews across the software development lifecycle.
Basic Qualifications- Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience: 5+ years of professional experience developing embedded software for hardware-centric, real-time systems.
Technical Expertise- Strong proficiency in C and C++ for embedded systems, with working knowledge of memory management, concurrency, interrupt handling, and real-time scheduling, and an understanding of software/hardware co-design and software/computer architecture.
- Experience developing software on ARM Cortex-M, ARM Cortex-A, RISC-V, or similar embedded processor architectures using RTOS (e.g., RTEMS, FreeRTOS, VxWorks, LynxOS, INTEGRITY, Zephyr) or bare-metal environments.
- Comfortable with hardware-software integration, using tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG debuggers.
- Experience using Git and collaborative software development workflows.
- Working knowledge of Bash/Python for scripting, test automation, and tooling.
Desired Skills- Exposure to space flight software or radiation-mitigation strategies in software.
- Experience with Embedded Linux.
- Experience collaborating with FPGA engineers or developing software for FPGA/SoC architectures.
- Familiarity with safety-critical or mission-assurance coding standards (MISRA C/C++, NASA cFE/cFS).
- DevSecOps and test automation experience using Python or similar languages.
- Experience with embedded security and encryption.
- Familiarity with release engineering, configuration/change management, and debug/trace analysis.
- Familiarity with embedded communications interfaces and network debugging, including Ethernet where applicable.
- Exposure to embedded processor architectures, peripheral integration, resource constraints, and hardware/software debugging.
Help us deploy and scale space infrastructure that will drive our utilization of space forward! We offer a highly competitive benefits package including access to comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, and paid parental leave, in addition to other benefits. 
