• Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in computer science, information systems or related discipline and progressive software development experience as follows; fifteen or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, thirteen or more years of experience with a masters degree, or ten or more years with a PhD. May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education. • Demonstrates a detailed and extensive technical expertise and application of engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice with the ability to organize, plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones with some experience in project leadership. • Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment; strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to effectively interface with other departments, customers, government representatives, and/or professionals; the capability of representing the organization as a prime technical contact; and the ability to provide leadership and guidance to less experienced professionals. • High proficiency in C programming language (and/or C++) is required. • Extensive experience with software development in the Linux environment (command line, GCC, Makefiles, shell scripting, etc.) • Embedded development experience including cross-compiling to separate targets, and testing/development on highly-embedded systems. • Expertise in all aspects of the satellite system design life cycle, including spacecraft level environmental testing, launch, and operations is desired. • Experience with image processing (filtering, thresholding, calculating statistics, other opencv library functions) is desired. • Must be customer focused and able to work on a self- initiated basis or in a team environment and able to work extended hours and travel as required. • US Citizenship is required as is the ability to maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance.