A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.
Job Description
Thales Alenia Space in Italy is leader in the specification, design, development, validation and delivery of the On-board Software (OBSW) in charge of managing various kind of Spacecraft (low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit, geostationary, science/exploration).
The OBSW product provides part of the Spacecraft on-board functions: operational mode management thermal control, electrical power, units and subsystems management, standard Packet Utilization Services (PUS), basic HW resources management and satellite mass memory management.
Key duties:
You will be part of a team having the following duties:
• Support to the production of the OBSW Requirements Baseline (RB).
• Production of the OBSW Technical Specification (TS).
• Design of the OBSW.
• Unit/integration test of the OBSW.
• Validation test against TS with the support of proper test equipment facilities and simulation models.
• Support to validation against RB
You will interface the customer and suppliers and you will cooperate with other Thales departments including project managers, industrial engineering, manufacturing and marketing & sales.
Skills, experience and qualifications required:
• Master degree in Computer Science or equivalent background.
• Knowledge of the ECSS-E-ST-40C and ECSS-Q-ST-80C standards from ESA.
• Knowledge of multi-core processors and hypervisors (preferably PikeOS, XtratuM).
• Experience in designing, developing and debugging hard real
📌 Embedded Software Engineer (Milano)
🏢 Thales
📍 Milano