Flight Software Sustaining Engineer

Description

life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, 401(k)

Feb 25, 2026

The NASA SES III contract provides IT services throughout all aspects of the engineering process of the entire space systems arena. MVS is in search of a Senior Flight Software Sustaining Engineer/Senior Embedded Systems Software Engineer to support the Software Engineering Services III (SES-III) contract at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The candidate will analyze requirements, design, implement, and test flight software changes according to a rigorous life-cycle development process.

Primary responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• Investigate spacecraft anomalies by analyzing operations commands, telemetry, memory dumps, FSW code and documentation. Attempt to reproduce anomalies on the test bed.
• Operate flight software test facilities and maintain a flight like configuration.
• Configuration management of flight and ground products.
• Continuous flight software sustaining engineering process improvement.

• B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Math, or Physics.
• Senior spacecraft computer hardware engineer with at least 7 years of professional experience.
• Expert knowledge of the DSCOVR spacecraft flight software sustaining engineering (FSSE) test bed command and data handling (C&DH) engineering test unit (ETU) hardware architecture and interfaces with the external lab systems.
• Ability to accurately troubleshoot and diagnose issues with spacecraft computer hardware and ETUs.
• Ability to disassemble, reintegrate, and test ETU components.
• U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain National Agency Check Inquiry (NACI) personal background check.

• Experience with assembler code.
• Experience with real time operating systems VxWorks and RTEMS.
• Knowledgeable in software lifecycle models
• Experience with spacecraft operations

Senior spacecraft computer hardware engineer with at least 15 + years of professional experience.

A bachelor's degree in the disciplinary area of Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Math, or Physics.

Ability to obtain National Agency Check Inquiry (NACI) personal background check.

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In compliance with Colorados Equal Pay for Equal Work Act; MCSG Technologies considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role and associated responsibilities, a candidates work experience, education/training, and key skills.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information.

41 CFR 60-1.35(c)