GNSS creates upwards of $500B in economic value in North America every year, supporting everything from consumer applications to transportation systems, to time sync for critical infrastructure. As these industries progress towards autonomy the performance and security demands of their Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems are increasing beyond what GNSS can support, leaving a need for a cost-effective global solution.

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Xona is building a modern commercial satellite navigation network at the pace of the new space industry. Our Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellite system will provide the first ever high-accuracy global navigation and timing services with the security and resilience modern applications need to operate safely at scale. We have backing from both customers and investors and are ramping up for our initial satellite launches in 2022!

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Xona is looking for a Software Engineer specializing in testing to join our software team. As part of our software team, you’ll interface with cross functional teams to contribute towards ensure our payloads and software systems are fully tested and ready for deployment in space!

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What You'll Do

• Create detailed, comprehensives, and well-structured modular test designs, test plans, and test cases from system requirements and concept of operations use cases

• Interface with hardware, software, and systems engineering teams to identify system interactions that must be considered for testing

• Design and build automated tests in a Linux environment

• Work hand-in-hand with the development team to support system integration, debugging, and hardware in the loop testing with flight software

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Desired Qualifications (not all are expected)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a relevant field

• Experience building and executing test plans to validate software for production release

• Proficient with Linux command line tools, utilities, system admin tools, and bash scripting

• Proficiency with Modern C++

• Familiarity with functional testing, system level testing, and oppositional testing

• Proven success in a fast-paced, cross-functional engineering team environment

• Familiarity with orbital mechanics, estimation theory, Kalman Filtering, and the Robot Operating System (ROS)

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Required Qualifications

• All candidates must be either a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card holder) due to U.S. export control regulations.

 

Location

San Mateo, CA

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