Software Developer and Integrator

Mountain View, California

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Work Location: NASA Ames Research Center - Mountain View, CA

Minimum Citizenship: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

JOB DESCRIPTION - Lunar Rover Flight Software Engineer

At NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, we are designing a Lunar prospecting mission to search for water ice in a polar region of the Moon. Join the Rover Flight Software team on NASA's VIPER mission to the Moon. The first planetary rover to venture into permanent darkness.

The Intelligent Robotics Group (irg.arc.nasa.gov) at the NASA Ames Research Center conducts aggressive research and development for robot missions on Earth and in space. This work supports a wide variety of NASA and non-NASA customers through direct technology delivery, field testing (in extreme environments and on the International Space Station), and deployment. Key work areas include autonomy, navigation, perception, and robot user interfaces.

This position is for a full-time robotics engineer to develop flight software for the NASA VIPER Lunar Rover.

REQUIREMENTS - Lunar Rover Flight Software Engineer

Education: MS in Robotics, Software Engineering or related field and 2 years of related experience

Year(s) of Experience: 2+ years of related experience

Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

Qualifications, Skills and Traits:
  • Strong background in robotics and/or distributed systems
  • Embedded systems (especially Linux/ARM and Android/ARM)
  • Strong background in developing high-performance software, particularly with C/C and GNU tools under Linux
  • Experience with robot navigation and/or system software
Desired Skills:
  • core Flight Systems (cFS)
  • Agile software development
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Date Posted: 12 March 2025
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