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Senior Space Mission Software Engineer

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Senior Space Mission Software Engineer in USA

  • Varda Space Industries
  • Full time
  • Email
  • El Segundo, CA

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain high-reliability services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding.
  • Build operator-grade mission-control UIs and dashboards for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
  • Create flight-software simulations, device emulators, scenario-based automated tests, and test harnesses.
  • Design and productionize mission-platform tooling, including service templates, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and self-service workflows.
  • Develop deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks, including safe rollouts, rollbacks, and limited-connectivity deployments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
  • At least 5 years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
  • Expertise in Python and strong understanding of concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
  • Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services using low-latency messaging and time-series and relational stores.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, observability, Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and controlled networks.
  • Preferred qualifications include proficiency in C++, Ansible, or NiceGUI; experience with DAQ, closed-loop control, flight-software-integrated testing and simulation tools, safety-critical certification artifacts, ground-systems standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA and employer-matched HSA options, and additional voluntary insurance.
  • $120/month wellness reimbursement, parental and family-building benefits, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
  • 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match, cell phone reimbursement, relocation support, and incentive equity or long-term cash awards.
  • Stocked kitchen with daily lunch and twice-weekly dinner, team events, happy hours, mission-success celebrations, and complimentary EV charging.
  • Full-time role that is on-site in El Segundo, California.

Salary: $169k - $216k/yr

Varda Space Industries

Varda is building the infrastructure for a thriving orbital economy, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules. From new, life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optic cables, there is a world of products used to benefit life on Earth that can ...

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