Embedded Software Medium

🚀MaiaSpace is a European space tech company, designing, manufacturing and operating competitive and sustainable solutions for space mobility. We are driven by the belief that access to space is a major enabler for a better and more sustainable life on Earth, addressing the challenges faced by humanity: climate, resources, connectivity, and data. Our aim is to successfully design and test a cost-effective and reusable mini-launch vehicle by 2026.🚀

Embedded Software Medium

As part of the Avionics and EGSE (Electrical Ground Support Equipment) team, the incumbent's main mission will be to develop and test embedded software and associated toolchains.

Your main activities will cover the following areas:

• The development roadmap for on-board software on the launcher and EGSEs
• The definition of on-board and ground software architectures, and a contribution to the definition of avionics and ground systems as a whole
• Definition of validation and qualification objectives
• Development and validation of :
• Embedded software (flight program) or high-level EGSE applications based on code generation and algorithms specified or developed by the GNC, Mission and GSE (Ground Support Equipment) teams.
• Lower layers based on real-time operating systems
• On-board intra-equipment and on-board/ground communication systems
• For certain software bricks, be able to supervise outsourced developments
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the Software Factory and the HITL (Hardware In The Loop) platform:
• Definition, development, validation and operational implementation of a software factory based on a CI/CD and DevOps approach.
• Definition, development, validation and operational implementation of a HITL platform simulating all avionics, embedded software and part of EGSE.

🛸 Background and Skills

Qualifications

• Education: Engineer, PhD or equivalent with a specialization in industrial IT, embedded software, electronics or telecom.
• Experience: > 5 years in industry or research in the fields of automotive, IoT, IT/telecom, space, aeronautics, defense or equivalent.

Skills

• C/C++, Python, Matlab/Simulink
• Real-time and OS: Linux (PREEMPT), FreeRTOS, VXWorks or equivalent
• Mastery of some common µC or µP SoC platforms: ARM Cortex Mx, Rx, Axx, Intel x86, etc.
• Command of a few communication buses and network stacks: Ethernet, CAN, ARINC 664, MIL-STD-1553, etc.
• Knowledge or practice of code generation tools: e.g. Matlab/Simulink
• Ability to perform rapid prototyping: e.g. PlatformIO, RPi, etc.
• Good configuration management and CI/CD practices: e.g. git/gitlab, Jenkins, etc.
• Mastery of tools commonly used for HITL: dSAPCE, NI, etc.
• French/English read, written & spoken

🎬 Working at MaiaSpace

You will be joining a friendly multi-disciplinary team, comprised of multi-skilled people, following Agile and Scrum methodologies. This means that your role and responsibility may evolve over time with varied assignments and challenges depending on priorities and competences. Your work will be hands-on and in close contact with the final product. We are open-minded, transparent, pragmatic, result oriented and people centric. Teamwork is at the heart of how we work together and our co-workers share the same fundamental values: respect, humility, reactivity and autonomy with a passion for technical excellence. Our newly acquired office space at La Defense is located within the heart of Europe’s largest purpose built business and commercial district with easy access to public transport.

Written and spoken communication is in French and English.