Xona Space Systems is a start-up focused on building satellite navigation infrastructure for the age of autonomy. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) like GPS brought navigation to the masses. Looking forward, cyber-physical systems including self-driving cars, aerial mobility, and mobile robotics are pushing the limits of what GNSS can provide. In these applications, GNSS faces challenges with precision, interference, and security. Xona’s commercial low-Earth orbit navigation service is being designed to meet these challenges by providing high security GNSS with more than an order of magnitude better accuracy and availability than current state of the art.

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Our success is dependent upon building an agile team that thrives on doing more with less. We are curious, passionate, innovative, and thrive in a collaborative environment.

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Xona is looking for an Embedded Software Engineer to join our team supporting embedded software development for our space and ground systems.  Our software team builds software to enable an industry-first commercial navigation satellite system, from large-scale simulations to hardware-in-the-loop testing.

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What You’ll Do

• Design and development of state-of-the-art embedded software for next generation commercial navigation satellite systems

• Software design and development using C/C++ and MATLAB in an embedded real-time operation system (e.g. Linux, RTEMS, QNX), lower level firmware development (e.g. ARM, ST), and FPGA acceleration for safety- and mission-critical applications

• Work with domain experts to implement novel algorithms and schema for navigation and estimation

• Support system integration, debugging, and hardware in the loop testing with flight hardware in a lab environment

 

What You Have

• Bachelor’s degree or technical diploma in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or similar field of study

• 3+ years of experience in software/firmware development using C/C++ and MATLAB

• Experience designing and testing embedded systems for high performance, high reliability computing applications

 

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with embedded software design and development for automotive, industrial, or aerospace/military applications with proven success in a fast-paced, cross-functional engineering team environment

• Experience developing software which meets functional safety and/or space flight requirements

• Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies

• Experience with embedded RTOS(s)

• Experience with code optimization

• Proficient in scripting languages, such as bash and Python

• Knowledge of SPI, Ethernet, and CAN communication protocols

• Experience with Jenkins, CMake, Git, Gtest, QNX, Docker

• Familiarity with GPS, GNSS, and other forms of navigation / localization

• Familiarity with orbital mechanics, estimation theory, Kalman Filtering

• Familiarity with software defined radios and RF engineering

 

Location

San Mateo, CA

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