Architect For Embedded Software Development Workshop H/F - Infinite Orbits

About the Company

Established in 2017, Infinite Orbits is a NewSpace company, based in Toulouse, pushing the boundaries of in-orbit services with cutting-edge spacecraft driven by its own Rendez-Vous solution, an advanced Autonomous Vision-Based Navigation Solution. IO has two generations of missions

"Orbit Guard" provides Inspection and Space Situational Awareness services in GEO. Our first, OG-1 was launched on 1 May 2023, the second is launching in 2025 and the third third launching in 2026.

"Endurance" is a docking service capable of extending the life of GEO telecom satellites, by taking over AOCS takeover for 5 years.

We are looking for an Engineer responsible for defining and implementing the embedded software development workshop used for the software developed for our satellites.

The goal is to build a modern, industrial, and reproducible development environment for developing, testing, integrating and validating critical embedded software, particularly in C and Rust, with Python for testing, automation, and engineering tools.

A major dimension of the role will be implementing a strategy for using artificial intelligence to accelerate development, while maintaining a level of control compatible with the requirements of space projects and the ECSS and ISO 9001 standards.

The candidate must therefore be able to build a workshop that combines developer productivity, automation, reproducibility, cybersecurity, traceability, and compliance.

Job Description

Workshop architecture

Define the overall architecture of the development environment:

• C and Rust environments;
• Python environment for testing and automation;
• source code management;
• dependency management;
• version management;
• configuration management;
• continuous integration;
• artifact management;
• test report management;
• static and dynamic analysis;
• requirements management and traceability;
• integration with anomaly management tools;
• simulation and validation environments.

The goal is to have a reproducible workshop, notably allowing a software environment to be rebuilt identically and verification evidence to be produced that can be used within a space project.

Hybrid validation

Build an architecture that allows the same test logic to be run at several levels of system representation:

Software-in-the-Loop / simulation software model of the hardware and/or environment.

Hardware / representative equipment validation on real equipment or a test environment.

Flight equipment where relevant, validation on the actual equipment intended for flight.

CI/CD industrialization

Requirements

• Engineering or university degree in computer science, embedded software, or systems.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in embedded software development, development infrastructure, or software engineering.
• Very strong command of C.
• Experience with Rust, or a demonstrated ability to quickly adopt Rust in an industrial environment.
• Very strong command of Python, particularly for automation and testing.
• Experience with Linux systems and automated development environments.
• Command of the following principles:
  • Git;
  • CI/CD;
  • build automation;
  • cross-compilation;
  • automated testing;
  • static analysis;
  • artifact management.
• Experience with embedded systems and the space sector strongly appreciated.
• Knowledge of ECSS, particularly ECSS-E-ST-40 and ECSS-Q-ST-80, strongly appreciated.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 practices appreciated.
• Hands-on experience using AI in a software development environment would be a strong advantage.
• Professional-level English essential.
• French nationality is required due to restricted-access projects.