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Flight Software Engineer

Red Canyon LLC
Denver, CO Full Time
POSTED ON 2/7/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2025

Do you want to help a small company make a BIG difference in space? Do you take ownership of your job and responsibility for your actions? Then come work for Red Canyon and help us continue our mission of helping humankind reach the stars!

Red Canyon is accepting resumes for real-time software engineers and for our database for future openings.  We have openings to develop flight software for satellites including interplanetary missions as well as autonomous vehicle software for ground-based applications.   If you feel you have a significant portion of the required technical skills below and are a self-motivated, detail oriented, goal driven engineer who wants to be a part of a small kick-ass development team, please email your Word formatted resume and cover letter (in the body of the email) that details how your experience and education are a match for our requirements.   ​​​​​​Required Skills :

  • FSW development and test experience
  • Embedded software experience
  • Object Oriented (OO) design using Rhapsody tool
  • C / C
  • Python
  • Linux
  • VxWorks
  • RDCU Analysis- Requirements, Design, Code and Test
  • Verification and Validation Experience
  • NASA and / or Aerospace & Defense experience
  • Full understanding of development life cycle   Requirements :
  • Bachelor of Science in engineering or computer science
  • Strong technical and communicative skills
  • Self-motivated, detail oriented, goal driven
  • Passionate about space exploration
  • US Citizenship   Desired Skills :
  • Wind River
  • MATLAB / Simulink
  • GreenHills
  • Firmware
  • UML design tools
  • DOORS requirements tool
  • LDRA unit test tool
  • Domain experience in Vehicle Management
  • Spacecraft experienceRed Canyon Engineering and Software : “Exploring Other Planets, Improving our Own”

Red Canyon contracts with NASA, NOAA, NREL, JPL, and DOD, in addition to customers such as Lockheed Martin Space, Raytheon, Sierra Nevada Corporation, a.i. solutions, Walt Disney Imagineering, SAIC, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, Honeywell, KBRwyle, Maxar, Blue Origin, and Moog. We specialize in building spacecraft, developing renewable energy technologies to help make our planet a better world and cutting edge research and development. Our disciplines include systems engineering, mechanical design, structural analysis, real time flight and ground software, simulation software, user interface software, and mission management software. We help our contractors with the full life cycle of product development from requirements to test and delivery.

Some of the programs we have previously or currently worked on include : Human Lander System, Artemis I-II, WorldView Legion V, Perseverance, InSight Dream Chaser, Psyche, Mars 98, Odyssey 01, Stardust, Genesis and Deep Impact, Mars Phoenix, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Orion, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GOES-R, OSIRIS-REx, Maven, JUNO, Grail, and the MarsFlight and LunarSIM Simulation. We also work on classified programs.

Red Canyon’s home office is located in scenic Denver, Colorado, and our regional office is in historic downtown Titusville, Florida. We are a small company that maintains a flat organization to decrease our overhead and costs to our customers. Our number one focus is to solve some of the most complicated engineering problems humankind is facing.

We have a fun and talented team of engineers and we are committed to our engineers continued success and development. Included in our employment package are immediate HUBZone bonus, health benefits, profit sharing, referral bonuses, and a generous 401(K) retirement plan.

Red Canyon Software, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Red Canyon Software, Inc does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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