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Senior Ground Software Engineer in USA

  • Reflect Orbital
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Hawthorne, CA

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain satellite ground software for telemetry ingestion, processing, display, command generation, and uplink workflows.
  • Lead the design of operator-facing tools, dashboards, automation, pass execution, routine commanding, and alerting.
  • Deploy and operate ground software on AWS and Kubernetes while maintaining configuration management and infrastructure as code.
  • Integrate ground-station hardware and network interfaces, including radios, routers, and antenna controllers.
  • Lead GSaaS integrations and validate end-to-end data paths between satellites, ground stations, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Validate ground software with simulators and test environments before operational use.
  • Resolve root causes of issues spanning software, networks, ground stations, and mission systems.
  • Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and provide 24/7 on-call support for mission-critical systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience developing ground-systems software, including services, APIs, and applications.
  • Experience owning systems end to end from design through deployment and on-call operation.
  • Experience deploying and operating software on AWS with Kubernetes and CI/CD systems.
  • Strong understanding of networking protocols, routing, VPNs, and secure connectivity.
  • Knowledge of satellite ground systems, ground-station networking, antenna interfaces, and RF subsystems.
  • Experience with Ground Station-as-a-Service providers and with services backed by relational or time-series databases and real-time data.
  • Familiarity with Linux environments and command-line tools.
  • Strong programming and scripting skills; Python and C++ are preferred.
  • Experience with DevOps tools and practices, including Git and Docker.
  • Experience with multi-satellite constellation operations and CCSDS protocols or ground-station network integrations is a plus.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of each base policy covered by Reflect.
  • Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K plans.
  • Unlimited paid time off, with two weeks per year encouraged.
  • Healthy lunches provided daily.

Salary: $120k - $190k/yr

Reflect Orbital

Reflect Orbital is developing technology to sell sunlight to those who need it. We imagine a future where sunlight continues powering solar farms and providing lighting after the sun sets. We’re a small team of engineers who make progress by building things quickly and iteratively. Time is our gr...

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