Software Test Engineer - NASA Lunar Rover

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

Minimum Citizenship: U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

Clearance: US Government Public Trust

JOB DESCRIPTION - Software Test Engineer - NASA Lunar Rover
 

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 team planning the first robotic polar Lunar surface exploration! This position is for a full-time robotics test engineer to integrate and test software for the NASA VIPER Lunar Rover: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-viper-lunar-rover-to-map-water-ice-on-the-moon

The VIPER project is creating Rover flight software (vehicle management, mobility and command/data handling), ground software for rover navigation (localization and path planning) as well as a high fidelity Lunar simulation to support development of the flight software and mission operations training. These software components are developed, integrated and tested over six-month software build cycles, and we need someone with robotics and software testing experience to help define test cases, execute tests and assist with integration issues.

Responsibilities

• Define unit tests and test cases based on epic DOD
• Define scenario test cases
• Develop/set up test environments and test resources
• Conduct and document test executions
• Assist with software and hardware troubleshooting

 

REQUIREMENTS - Software Test Engineer - NASA Lunar Rover

Education: BS in Computer Science or Robotics

Year(s) of Experience: 2+ years of Related Experience

Qualifications, Skills and Traits:

• Strong background in defining unit tests and software system testing
• Strong background with hardware-in-the-loop testing
• Strong background in robotics and/or distributed systems
• Strong background in developing high-performance software, particularly with C++11, Python 3 and GNU tools under Linux

Desired Skills:

• Agile development
• ROS2 and ROS1
• Ticket management with Jira
• Continuous integration with Bamboo

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