About The Role

Work Location: Chantilly, Virginia or Seal Beach, California (on-site at either location)
Travel: Occasional travel to program integration and test locations
Clearance: Active TS/SCI with a current Polygraph Required
U.S. Citizen required

Position Overview

OMNI Consulting Solutions is seeking a Satellite Flight Software Engineer to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support to a Government team delivering advanced national security space capabilities. The engineer will provide independent technical assessment and engineering support across the architecture, development, integration, verification, qualification, deployment, and operation of onboard spacecraft flight software and embedded systems.

This position requires hands-on embedded and flight-software expertise. It is not an enterprise IT, cloud, web-development, satellite-operations-only, ground-software-only, or general systems-engineering position. The selected candidate must possess the technical depth to evaluate contractor source code, FPGA logic, device drivers, hardware/software interfaces, test environments, anomalies, and mission risks.

Key Responsibilities

Provide independent SETA support to Government stakeholders overseeing spacecraft flight-software and embedded-system development, integration, qualification, and operations.
Assess flight-software architectures, source code, FPGA implementations, device drivers, board-support packages, hardware abstraction layers, and hardware/software interfaces.
Review software requirements, designs, interface-control documents, code-review findings, FPGA artifacts, build and release products, test plans, procedures, results, discrepancy reports, and verification evidence.
Evaluate command and telemetry processing, mode and state management, timekeeping, data handling, autonomy, redundancy management, fault detection and recovery, and spacecraft safe-mode behavior.
Assess spacecraft processors, microcontrollers, FPGAs, memory, sensors, actuators, payload electronics, communication buses, and radiation-mitigation approaches.
Support HIL and other integrated test activities, technical reviews, test-readiness reviews, qualification and acceptance testing, and operational-readiness assessments.
Investigate integration failures, flight-software defects, spacecraft anomalies, and mission events; assess root cause, corrective actions, regression testing, and closure evidence.
Monitor contractor execution, interfaces, dependencies, technical performance, schedules, and risks; identify issues early and recommend practical mitigation actions.
Prepare concise engineering assessments, risk evaluations, briefings, and decision-support products for Government program and mission leadership.