Job Description
The mission of embedded systems software engineer concerns the on-board computer of our satellites throughout its whole life-cycle, which includes design, development, testing, and troubleshooting. Required Attitude for this role are as follows:
- Goal Oriented and Result Driven
- Aim for overall optimization, not only the code, or even the team, but the entire organization
- Autonomy, ability to work from a technical specification or write your own
- Emphasis on collaboration and teamwork
- Share the knowledge: be a mentor for others and learn from others
Responsibilities
- Embedded software development, maintenance of components and systems
- Programming applications, components drivers and interfaces in C, C++ etc.
- Develop software based on satellite system specifications and other satellite component specifications
- Document design information
- Perform design reviews and code reviews
- Design and perform various tests
- Work closely with other engineering teams, partners and vendors to ensure interoperability / reusability
- Promotes co-debug and interface testing with related subsystems
- Work with hardware designers to solve any issues
- Gives support and troubleshoots problems during satellites initial and nominal operation
- If possible, perform FPGA integration by HDL or IDEs
Qualifications
- College or university graduation qualifications related to electrical, computer science, control engineering, mechatronics and other engineering.
- Technical Skills
- Deep understanding of common hardware: micro-controller, UART/SPI/I2C, RTC, etc.
- Proficiency in C and/or C++
- Comfortable with command line tools (i.e., bash, git, gdb, etc.)
- Language Skills (one of the following):
- Business English or
- Basic English and Business Japanese
About the Company
Axelspace is a pioneer of micro-satellites technology with the vision "Space within Your Reach". We have developed and operated 9 satellites so far, and we will launch 4 more satellites named "GRUS" in 2022. We are creating a new future for space utilization as an international team from more than 10 countries.
We provide 1) Earth Observation Platform "AxelGlobe" with 5-satellite constellation and 2) Dedicated Satellite Business. AxelGlobe captures anywhere on Earth once in a few days at the moment, which will become capable of monitoring everyday once we launch four additional satellites in 2022. Dedicated Satellite Business is a service to make private satellites for customers, meeting their own needs.