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Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer

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Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer in USA

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

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain high-reliability telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding services for real-time operations and post-flight analysis.
  • 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 for avionics, GNC, and operations teams.
  • Design and productionize self-service mission-platform tooling, including service templates, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and deployment automation.
  • Create safe deployment and rollback patterns for lab benches, test stands, mission networks, and air-gapped or limited-connectivity environments.

Requirements

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

Benefits

  • On-site role in El Segundo, California.
  • Eligible for incentives in the form of stock options and/or long-term cash awards.

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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