Flight Software Engineer — Embedded Linux for Spacecraft Ops

EVONA; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EVONA in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks a Flight Software Engineer to join a highly technical aerospace team and help develop the software stack for operating spacecraft. This hands‑on role offers significant ownership across flight software, embedded Linux, spacecraft interfaces, controls and hardware integration.

You will work on reliability, observability, tests, and interfaces, collaborating across radio, data management, attitude control and system safety to deliver modular, maintainable

Qualifications

• 3+ years building taskable software stacks, such as web servers or comparable systems.
• Experience with service-based architectures.
• Experience designing software-to-software interfaces and software-to-human interfaces.
• Experience with Linux drivers and the /dev interface.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Bias towards simplicity and maintainable software.

Responsibilities

• Spacecraft reliability, including observability instrumentation, designing test systems to expose bugs, fixing bugs, and introducing/modeling best practices for reliable software.
• Product interface development, including designing clean interfaces for payload and ground interactions.
• Developing software interfaces with a product mindset, where the interfaces themselves are considered part of the product.
• Cross-functional software engineering across radio, data management, attitude control and system safety.
• Applying software engineering practices that limit complexity within task-oriented, modular systems.
• Developing and evolving the flight software service stack responsible for operating the spacecraft.

Skills

Taskable software stacks

Service-based architectures

Interfaces design (software-to-sofware

Linux drivers

Strong communication

Maintainable software

Tools

Docker

Rust

Python

MQTT

RPC

Protobuf

FlatBuffers

Embedded Linux

Job description

EVONA in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks a Flight Software Engineer to join a highly technical aerospace team and help develop the software stack for operating spacecraft. This hands‑on role offers significant ownership across flight software, embedded Linux, spacecraft interfaces, controls and hardware integration.

You will work on reliability, observability, tests, and interfaces, collaborating across radio, data management, attitude control and system safety to deliver modular, maintainable