Flight Software Architect

Job description

Here at The Exploration Company, we are building spacecrafts for humanity. The Flight Software Architect plays a key role in defining and maintaining the software architecture for our spacecraft flight software. The role ensures that the flight software architecture meets mission needs, system-level requirements, and safety and reliability objectives, while remaining scalable, maintainable, and suitable for the evolving needs of our spacecraft platforms. Working closely with Flight Software, Systems Engineering, Avionics, GNC, Mission Operations, and other functional disciplines, the Flight Software Architect drives architectural decisions, technical consistency, and the integration of software across the spacecraft. Key Responsibilities In your capacity as Flight Software Architect, your role will be continuously evolving, but day to day your duties will include: What we would love to see from you Software architecture & design — Define, develop, and maintain the overall flight software architecture, including software components, interfaces, data flows, and execution models, ensuring alignment with spacecraft system architecture and mission objectives. Technical leadership & architectural decisions — Drive key architectural decisions and establish design principles, technical standards, and best practices for flight software development. Provide technical guidance to software engineers and ensure consistency across software components and development activities. System integration & interfaces — Define and coordinate software interfaces with avionics, onboard computers, sensors, actuators, GNC, communication systems, and other spacecraft subsystems. Ensure robust integration across functional disciplines and support the resolution of cross-system technical challenges. Requirements & traceability — Translate mission and system-level requirements into software architectural requirements, design constraints, and interface specifications. Ensure traceability between requirements, architecture, implementation, and verification, working closely with Systems Engineering and functional chain owners. Reliability, safety & performance — Ensure that architectural decisions address fault tolerance, robustness, timing constraints, resource utilization, failure detection and recovery, and overall spacecraft reliability. Contribute to safety analyses, failure management…