Flight Software Engineer - Spacecraft Systems & Embedded Linux

EVONA; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

EVONA is seeking a Flight Software Engineer to join a highly technical aerospace team building the software stack to operate spacecraft. This hands-on role offers significant ownership across flight software, embedded Linux, spacecraft interfaces and hardware integration.

You will implement reliable software, contribute to test systems, and collaborate across radio, data management, attitude control and safety.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building taskable software stacks (e.g., web servers or comparable systems).
• Experience with service-based architectures.
• Experience Linux drivers and the /dev interface.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Bias toward simplicity and maintainable software.

Responsibilities

• Spacecraft reliability, including observability instrumentation and tests to expose bugs.
• Product interface development for payload and ground interactions.
• Developing software interfaces with a product mindset where interfaces are part of the product.
• Cross-functional software engineering across radio, data management, attitude control and safety.
• Applying software engineering practices to limit complexity in modular systems.
• Developing and evolving the flight software service stack to operate the spacecraft.

Skills

Flight software

Embedded Linux

Linux drivers

Service-based architectures

Hardware interfaces

Tools

Docker

Rust

Python

MQTT

RPC

Job description

EVONA is seeking a Flight Software Engineer to join a highly technical aerospace team building the software stack to operate spacecraft. This hands-on role offers significant ownership across flight software, embedded Linux, spacecraft interfaces and hardware integration.

You will implement reliable software, contribute to test systems, and collaborate across radio, data management, attitude control and safety.