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Join TrustPoint and Build the World's First Commercial GPS System in Space

GPS is a ubiquitous global utility in modern society; knowing one's location is critical for government, commercial, and personal applications.  Still, today's solutions for determining location are inaccurate, slow, unencrypted, and susceptible to jamming and spoofing. These shortcomings make GPS insufficient for tomorrow's safety-critical and high-precision applications, a problem TrustPoint intends to solve. 

TrustPoint is developing a fully commercial next-generation GPS service to provide significant performance, security and reliability improvements for GPS users. This includes better accuracy, quicker Time to First Fix, and anti-spoof and anti-jam capabilities. The improvements will support US Government position and timing service resiliency as well as enable next-generation commercial applications like drone delivery, self-driving cars, urban air mobility, and augmented reality. The $260B annual GNSS Hardware, Software and Data Services market is ripe for disruption and TrustPoint intends to lead that revolution with our commercial infrastructure and services.

The Position

TrustPoint is currently seeking a Full Time Embedded Software Engineer to join the team and will be responsible for implementing electrical components into hardware and firmware needed for our commercial Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Our system consists of a constellation of commercial satellites and a network of ground stations and as the Embedded Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing innovative software solutions at the heart of our GNSS satellite, payload, and receiver solutions. Further, you will work directly with our Chief Engineer and the entire engineering team to design, develop and test software that leverages our company's proprietary satellite and RF technologies. 

We'll Expect You To

• Design, develop and test different software solutions required for Trustpoint's proprietary Payload and advanced electronics systems.

• Evaluate system and test electrical and software performance utilizing hardware-in-the-loop.

• Work with the payload systems team, ground infrastructure and various vendors to develop software solutions.

• Maintain unwavering focus on meeting development targets and achieving objectives.

You'll Need to Have

• BS or MS in computer science, computer engineering,  electrical engineering, or related field

• 5+ years of satellite, RF, Defense, Aerospace, or Wireless experience

• Ability to develop, test, debug software and firmware in C/C++/Rust

• Experience with Embedded linux, RTOS, and Linux kernel or Petalinux

• Support the Space and Ground Segment Operations team in system commissioning, operations automation, anomaly investigation and mitigation.

• Test software in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments, including the development of comprehensive unit and regression tests.

• Must have worked on CI/CD utilizing tools such as gitlab-runner, bitbucket pipelines or jenkins.

• Must have knowledge of one scripting language such as Python, Shell scripts etc.

• Must have knowledge of one build tools such as Make, Bitbake, Cmake, Meson, etc.

• Travel up to 20%
• US Citizen or US Permanent Resident Status (Green Card).

We'd Like to See

• Have worked directly in the Space Payload Systems, designed and developed Flight/Mission Software and integrated software used in different subsystems.

• Have worked in the software development of GNSS, GPS and PNT solutions or application of positioning solutions.Have designed and implemented device drivers and kernel drivers in linux or RTOS.
• Experience with FPGAs, Hardware RTL, SDR development.

Cultural Fit

• Thrive in a startup environment
  
• Positive, team-first communicator
  
• Willing to roll up sleeves and work cross-functionally
  
• Strategic thinker with tactical execution skills

Compensation & Benefits

The selected candidate will be competitively compensated with salary, equity (stock options), and a full benefits package. The salary range for this role is $123,000 to $151,000. 

TrustPoint, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, arrest record or any other characteristic