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# Principal Vehicle Software Engineer

- **Company:** Eoi Space
- **Location:** Lafayette, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $190,000 - $240,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Booting (BIOS), C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, DevOps, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, PIC Microcontroller, Fpga Hardware, Claude Code, Yocto, Kubernetes, Bare Metal, Hardware Acceleration, NVIDIA Jetson, Golang
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_89975b94b8ee6faedc818a03698c84e0

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in C omputer S orftware E ngineering A erospace E ngineering,or a related technical field
 * High competency with both scripted and compiled/type-checked languages (e.g. Python, C++, Go)
 * 10+years total experience in professional software engineering
 * Experience with scheduler-driven, resource-constrained flight software development (ideally NASA Core Flight Systems)
 * Exposure to embedded device development
 * Experience withdeploying software to intermittently connected edge compute environments
 * Relevant experience will includeOS level programming,containerized cluster management,embedded systems development,hardware acceleration, and a solid understanding of tradeoffs between features and footprint, * NVIDIA Jetson andCUDA programming experience
 * Bootloader, Yocto device tree, and FPGA development experience
 * Containerized workload management (Kubernetes)
 * Containerbuilding andoptimization experience.
 * Experience building and optimizing scalable distributed image processing workflows

## Description

* Coordinate, code, and leadimplementation ofcluster management and workload coordinationsystemsand tools to manage the HPCcluster in the payload system
 * Implement and test highly optimized GPU-aware containerized image processing workloads on the cluster
 * Contribute to and integrate with cFS-based bus flight software
 * Guide and coordinate firmware development work to ensure that hardware and firmware designs mesh together to implementrequiredsystem functions
 * Collaborate with the Principal Ground Software Engineer and vehicle and ground System Engineers to develop complete, holistic solutions to meet mission requirements
 * Work hand in hand with Security, Export Compliance, and DevOps/Platform engineering to ensure we can deploy and maintain test, qualification, and flight-level updates
 * Operate in a lean start-up environment, maintaining a laser focus on the balance between what we need today and the things we are excited to add and enhance tomorrow, * Championour development team principles:
 * Clear and explicit communication, within and between the teams across the company
 * Develop iteratively, integrate early and often, and coordinate functional cross-team demos of the iterative releases
 * End-to-end observable and traceable systems
 * Aggressively, but with discipline and structure, leverage agentic tools (Claude code) to accelerate design, implementation, test, and workflow activities
 * Plan, define, prioritize, and trackdesign and development activitiesto meet milestones and support inter-team dependencies
 * Work with other team leads to make sure basic "steel thread" system capabilities are established early and continuously refined and matured
 * Develop and deployboth image processing workload and cluster orchestrationsoftware tobench, rack, and flight versions of the payload processing system
 * Supportintegration of the Payload subsystem with bus Flight Software,WidebandRF communications systems, and ground and space-based image processing pipelines
 * Support firmware development efforts including bare-metal microcontrollers, FPGAs, Yocto device trees, and bootloaders
 * Support testing and qualification campaigns as well as on-orbit updates
 * Optimizefor space flight byselectingand applyinglightweight but modern OSS frameworks and tools, applied in a bandwidth-conscious way to support on-orbit updatesto any level of the system (BSP,OS, andapplications)