Director of Satellite Software & Autonomy

Albedo; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 234,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

401k matching

Health insurance

Parental leave

Flexible vacation

Company holidays

Wellness benefit

Relocation package

Job summary

Albedo is building software for satellites operating in Very Low Earth Orbit. As Director of Software Engineering, you will lead flight software, GNC, ground systems, and AI, ensuring autonomy and performance targets scale with the program.

You will mentor leaders, shape the software-hardware interface, and partner across the organization to accelerate mission success in a fast-moving, high-impact space tech company.

Qualifications

• Twelve-plus years in real-time embedded, GNC, or flight software.
• Deep fluency in deterministic flight or flight-like software: timing, scheduling, fault containment, C++ on RTOS.
• GNC literacy at the leadership level with control law structure and estimator behavior experience.
• Track record building simulation and HIL infrastructure that caught bugs before flight.
• Experience leading heterogeneous software teams across domains.
• Strong opinions on HW/SW boundary and on-orbit vs ground compute split.

Responsibilities

• Lead the software engineering organization - FSW, GNC, applied AI, and ground - across multiple teams of managers and ICs.
• Own the integrated software performance of the satellite: deterministic flight software and C2 paths.
• Manage the simulation and HIL infrastructure that scales across the program.
• Close the GNC analytical-to-flight loop to trace anomalies to model gaps or bugs.
• Develop technical leaders in each software domain and balance focus across disciplines.
• Defend the boundary between flight software and ground tooling and between software and hardware.
• Partner with hardware, systems engineering, and program management to elevate software as a peer of hardware.

Skills

Real-time embedded systems

GNC

Flight software

C++ on RTOS

Leadership of managers

Simulation and HIL

HW/SW boundary

Job description

Albedo is building software for satellites operating in Very Low Earth Orbit. As Director of Software Engineering, you will lead flight software, GNC, ground systems, and AI, ensuring autonomy and performance targets scale with the program.

You will mentor leaders, shape the software-hardware interface, and partner across the organization to accelerate mission success in a fast-moving, high-impact space tech company.