Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer II

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Varda Space Industries
Full time
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USA
09/22/2026
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El Segundo, CA

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain reliable telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding services.
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, test harnesses, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks.
Design and productionize mission-platform tooling, including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, and observability.
Implement deployment, rollout, rollback, and limited-connectivity deployment patterns across lab, test-range, and mission environments.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
At least 3 years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
Strong Python development expertise and understanding of Python 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 stores.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, and infrastructure-as-code.
Experience with logging, metrics, tracing, Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and operational readiness for controlled networks.
Preferred qualifications include C++, Ansible, NiceGUI, DAQ, closed-loop control, flight-software-integrated testing and simulation tools, safety-critical certification artifacts, ground-systems standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade command and alarming UIs.

Benefits

Fully on-site in El Segundo, California.
Flexible PTO and 12 paid holidays.
Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
Voluntary insurance options, a $120/month wellness reimbursement, parental leave, family-building benefits, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
401(k) with a 6% immediately vested employer match, cell-phone reimbursement, and relocation support if needed.
Stock options and/or long-term cash awards, daily lunch, twice-weekly dinner, team events, and complimentary EV charging.

Salary: $144k - $184k/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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