Senior Flight Software Engineer
Pubblicato il 15-10-2026 - Altro in Italia
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 as ANT, WAF, Makefile, Visual Studio,