NASA Autonomous Satellite Project - Software Lead

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

Minimum Citizenship: U.S. Citizen (This position requires access to ITAR and/or EAR protected data)

Clearance: US Government 

JOB DESCRIPTION - NASA Autonomous Satellite Project - Software Lead
 

The Intelligent Robotics Group (irg.arc.nasa.gov) conducts an aggressive program of robotics research and development. Research topics include rover and spacecraft autonomy and resource management, planetary surface rover development, real-time computer control of mobile robots and manipulators, human-robot interaction, and 3D terrain reconstruction and visualization. This research and development supports a wide variety of NASA enterprise customers through direct technology delivery, as well as through a program of field-testing of technologies in remote science analog environments, on satellites and on the International Space Station.

This position is for the software development lead on the Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy (DSA) project.  DSA is developing software to demonstrate autonomous decision making and adaptive reconfiguration on a swarm of satellites over the next several years.  This position will lead 5-7 engineers through the design, implementation and testing of the software system. REQUIREMENTS - NASA Autonomous Satellite Project - Software Lead
 

Education: BS in Computer Science or related field

Year(s) of Experience: 12+ years of Software Development and 4+ Years as Software Lead or Project Manager
 

Qualifications, Skills and Traits:
 

• Strong background in robotics, and distributed systems and distributed autonomy
• Strong background in leading software development teams
• Agile software development
• Software development experience with C++ and GNU tools under Linux
• Software architecture and design
• Experience with embedded Linux

Desired Skills:
 

Satellite systems

• Onboard software for satellites systems
• Core Flight Systems
• Embedded systems (especially Linux)
• Fault diagnosis and recovery

Distributed systems

• DDS (Data Distribution System) networking middleware
• Robust communication over unreliable wireless networks

Robotics & Autonomous Systems

• Multi-agent systems
• Experience with robot perception, guidance, navigation, and/or planning

Support tools

• Git version control system
• CMake build system

Project Management

• Engineering project lifecycles and design reviews

Additional Languages

• Python
• Java

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