Senior Flight Software Engineer
Pubblicato il 08-10-2026 - D Orbit in Lomazzo
D-Orbit is looking for a Senior Flight Software Engineer to join our Flight Software team, based in Lomazzo (CO).
In this role, you will contribute to the development of mission critical real-time embedded software, running on the D-Orbit latest generation On-Board Computers.
Key Responsibilities & Tasks
- Contribute to the entire embedded software application lifecycle, focusing on requirements definition, design, coding, debugging and integration with the flight hardware, with a primary focus on OBC software
- Preparation of flight software deliverable documentation for project milestones
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team processes and methodologies, including identification, definition and maintenance of cross-projects building blocks
- Coordinate with subcontractors and software suppliers
Additional duties may be assigned as needed by each project, like
- Define software system specifications during co-engineering activities with the system team
- Improve and develop new features to shared libraries
- Maintenance of existing flight software applications
- Support to AIV and HIL/SIL test activities
- Take part to reviews with stakeholders
- Mentor junior engineers
Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years' experience in embedded software development, including definition of real-time SW architectures
- Experience delivering embedded software in any C-family language
- Knowledge of any typical embedded communication interfaces such as USART, SPI, I2C, CAN, SpW, MIL-STD-1553 and related protocols
- Knowledge of real-time operating systems (such as RTEMS or FreeRTOS) and/or operating systems targeted for embedded applications (such as any embedded Linux)
- Familiarity with bug/SPR tracking and project management tools (Jira)
- Familiarity SW requirements elicitation, SW design and testing lifecycle in regulated environment (ideally ECSS standard)
- Experience using and configuring any common build tool chains or similar development environment (such a