SOC Engineer - Orion Software Operations Center Support

Title: SOC Engineer - Orion Software Operations Center Support
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Location: Onsite
Locations: Houston, TX or Denver, CO
Experience Required: 5+ Years
Industry: Aerospace / Space Exploration / Flight Software

Program Areas Supported

• AR3 Docking
• NP0155 (FOD)
• Sustainment Activities for AR3 and AR4

Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, and maintain mission-critical software supporting Orion operational environments.
• Troubleshoot complex software and system integration issues.
• Support software deployment, testing, validation, and sustainment activities.
• Analyze and resolve networking and communication issues across distributed systems.
• Develop and maintain multi-threaded software applications.
• Collaborate with simulation, flight software, and mission operations teams.
• Support containerized software environments and deployment pipelines.
• Participate in requirements development, architecture reviews, implementation, testing, and operational support.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of software reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM field.
• 5+ years of software development and systems integration experience.
• Extensive experience with:
  • C++
  • Software troubleshooting and root cause analysis
  • Linux development environments
  • Network protocols, particularly RUC/RF communications
• Experience with:
  • Multi-threaded application development
  • Python development
  • Container technologies
  • Full software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Qt Creator
• Experience integrating and troubleshooting emulators
• Experience with QEMU
• Experience supporting Orion spacecraft programs
• Aerospace or mission operations software experience
• Experience supporting NASA or Department of Defense programs