Senior Specialist, Software Engineering (SV Optical Communications Terminal Software Adaptor)

L3Harris Technologies · Palm Bay, Florida, United States

Location

Palm Bay

Job Type

Full-Time

Posted

June 01, 2026

Job Description

Job Description:
The Software Engineer will be responsible for design, development, and implementation of immediate updates and refactoring of an existing Flight Software (FSW) adaptor to accommodate multiple vendors/suppliers of Space Vehicle (SV) Optical Communications Terminals (OCTs). 
Essential Functions: 
Lead the design, development, implementation, and testing of updated FSW written in C++ in an embedded Linux environment.
Understand the basics of OCT operations, scheduling of peer-to-peer communication contacts, link establishment, and pointing vectors relative to SV orbital motion.
Develop and maintain an embedded Linux-based code baseline, DevOps pipeline, configuration management, and documentation.
Update and refactor existing integration and test procedures to cover new vendors/suppliers, and complete integration with the larger SV software baseline.
Execute Formal Qualification Testing (FQT)...
        

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