Lead Flight Software Engineer

About the role

This role involves leading the architecture, development, and integration of flight software across the vehicle and ground segment. You will oversee low-level embedded software for propulsion and flight hardware, as well as telemetry and ground-support infrastructure. The position requires providing technical leadership while remaining hands-on with real hardware campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and architecture of the flight-software platform across embedded, real-time, and ground-segment systems.
• Lead the development of deterministic software for propulsion systems, flight computers, avionics, sensors, and other vehicle hardware.
• Define software requirements, interfaces, design documentation, development standards, and verification strategies.
• Develop and maintain ground software, embedded test tools, telemetry and telecommand processing, and data-distribution systems.
• Work closely with avionics, propulsion, systems, and AIT teams to integrate, test, debug, and validate software on real hardware.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and software support during vehicle and test campaigns.

Required skills

• C
• C++
• Embedded software
• Real-time systems
• Embedded Linux
• Hardware interfaces
• TCP/IP
• UDP
• Data serialisation
• Fault handling
• Software verification

Nice to have

• Flight software
• Hardware abstraction layers
• Board-support packages
• Telemetry systems
• Telecommand systems
• Hardware-in-the-loop
• Software-in-the-loop
• Python

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, or a related discipline
• Equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Relocation support
• Daily lunch
• Daily dinner
• Shared company housing

About the Company

We are a Germany-based rocketry startup currently in stealth mode, scaling up to develop high-performance solid propulsion technologies for space and defense applications. We regularly launch suborbital and ballistic rockets and are currently developing an orbital rocket.