Flight Software Deputy Chief
Apply NowCompany: Cimarron Software Services, Inc
Location: Houston, TX 77084
Description:
Posting/External Job Title
Flight Software Deputy Chief
Location
Houston, TX 77058 US (Primary)
Remote/Onsite/Hybrid
100% Onsite
Job Type
Full-time
# of Hires Needed
1
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Travel
None
Security Clearance Required
None
Pay Range (All offers will be based on experience)
$190,000.00 - $219,000.00/yr
Position Introduction/Key Duties
Cimarron is seeking a Flight Software Deputy Chief to support the StarLab program in Houston, TX. The StarLab will be a low Earth orbit (LEO) space station that will serve as a business park for commercial space and space tourism activities!
Key Duties:
Required/Desired Skills, Experience, and Education
Required Skills, Experience, and Education:
Desired Skills, Experience, and Education:
Business Profile:
Cimarron is a global solutions company with a strategic partnering approach to satisfying customer-driven requirements. We ensure customer success with a modern approach and experienced leadership. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, Cimarron is fueled by highly skilled employees, developing new innovative technologies, and delivering superior products and services. We believe in recognizing employees' worth by offering competitive salaries and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) contributions, educational reimbursement, and much more. From company communication through Company-wide information meetings led by our President and CEO, to an Awards program designed to recognize our amazing employees and their accomplishments, you will not only feel like you are a part of a team, you will be a valued member of the Cimarron family. Cimarron is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Flight Software Deputy Chief
Location
Houston, TX 77058 US (Primary)
Remote/Onsite/Hybrid
100% Onsite
Job Type
Full-time
# of Hires Needed
1
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Travel
None
Security Clearance Required
None
Pay Range (All offers will be based on experience)
$190,000.00 - $219,000.00/yr
Position Introduction/Key Duties
Cimarron is seeking a Flight Software Deputy Chief to support the StarLab program in Houston, TX. The StarLab will be a low Earth orbit (LEO) space station that will serve as a business park for commercial space and space tourism activities!
Key Duties:
- Serve as deputy to the Flight Software Chief.
- Direct and lead the flight software teams through requirements, design, prototyping, implementation, verification, validation, certification, and ongoing support for the StarLab space station.
- Share responsibility for resource planning, budgets, schedules, cross-programmatic communications, and achieving flight software goals.
- Coordinate and contribute to programmatic flight software reviews.
- Support flight software certification activities.
- Enforce appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the development life cycle.
- Present flight software programmatic topics to internal and external stakeholders.
- Perform hands-on software engineering tasks, including artifact and code reviews, gathering requirements, documenting software design, implementing software, resolving anomalies, preparing and presenting certification artifacts, and developing processes and standards.
- Coordinate flight software integration, verification, and validation within the system integration lab (SIL).
- Identify risks, provide mitigation strategies, and review impacts to schedules and budgets.
Required/Desired Skills, Experience, and Education
Required Skills, Experience, and Education:
- Due to facility security requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for consideration at this time.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- 5 or more years of Agile project management experience.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
- 10 or more years of experience leading software development organizations with teams of 20+ engineers.
- 10 or more years of experience developing and architecting software in a human-rated, regulated domain.
- 10 or more years of experience leading and coordinating with distributed teams.
- 20 or more years of professional experience with the appropriate higher education degrees, licenses, and certifications required to lead their field.
- Ability to coordinate across a wide range of technical disciplines.
- Ability to work on complex technical and programmatic problems and provide highly innovative solutions.
- Bachelor's degree.
Desired Skills, Experience, and Education:
- Experience with MS Project or similar scheduling tools.
- Experience with the Atlassian tool suite, including JIRA and JAMA.
- Experience with manned-space system software and certification.
- Familiarity with NASA cFS (Core Flight System) framework.
- Experience with VxWorks 6.9 and embedded Linux.
Business Profile:
Cimarron is a global solutions company with a strategic partnering approach to satisfying customer-driven requirements. We ensure customer success with a modern approach and experienced leadership. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, Cimarron is fueled by highly skilled employees, developing new innovative technologies, and delivering superior products and services. We believe in recognizing employees' worth by offering competitive salaries and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) contributions, educational reimbursement, and much more. From company communication through Company-wide information meetings led by our President and CEO, to an Awards program designed to recognize our amazing employees and their accomplishments, you will not only feel like you are a part of a team, you will be a valued member of the Cimarron family. Cimarron is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.