Onboard Software Engineer, Core Services — Equity Eligible

Loft Orbital; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% company-paid medical, dental, and

Vision insurance

401(k) plan and equity options

Daily catered lunches and snacks

Relocation assistance when applicable

Job summary

Loft Orbital in San Francisco is seeking engineers for its Onboard Software group to own features end-to-end, from concept to delivery, with emphasis on robustness and reliability. You will review code, enforce standards, and implement unit tests while working with Git, CI/CD, and build systems.

You will contribute to onboard software architecture and coordinate releases with downstream teams, with opportunities to participate in operating our satellite fleet.

Qualifications

• 2+ years software engineering experience, using programming languages including C/C++ (C++11 or newer) and Python.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g., GitLab-CI, Jenkins).
• Experience with build systems (e.g., Make, CMake).
• Understanding of distributed architecture.
• Familiarity with networking protocols (e.g., UDP, TCP, IP) and POSIX standards.
• Experience in developing multi-threaded applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and refine software with a high degree of ownership, driving impactful features from concept through delivery while ensuring robustness and reliability.
• Review code, provide clear feedback, and enforce adherence to established development processes, style guides, and design standards to maintain consistency and quality across the codebase.
• Design and implement unit tests for both self-authored and peer-authored code.
• Utilize version control systems to create feature branches, push code, and merge approved code into production branches.
• Contribute to the onboard software architecture through design proposals and collaborative review
• Participate in the review and enhancement of software development processes and design standards.
• Coordinate with downstream teams on the release, distribution and adoption of latest releases.
• In addition to responsibilities within onboard software, you’ll have the opportunity to directly be involved in operating our on-orbit fleet of satellites.

Skills

C/C++ (C++11+)

Python

Git

CI/CD

Make/CMake

Distributed architecture

Networking (UDP/TCP/IP)

Multithreading

Go/Rust familiarity

Tools

Docker

K3S

systemd-nspawn

Yocto

Go

Rust

Job description

Loft Orbital in San Francisco is seeking engineers for its Onboard Software group to own features end-to-end, from concept to delivery, with emphasis on robustness and reliability. You will review code, enforce standards, and implement unit tests while working with Git, CI/CD, and build systems.

You will contribute to onboard software architecture and coordinate releases with downstream teams, with opportunities to participate in operating our satellite fleet.