Onboard Software Engineer, Hyperdrive Platform

Cerebras

Golden (CO)

On-site

USD 155,000 - 225,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance
Relocation assistance
Parental leave
Equity options
Catered lunches

Job summary

Loft in Golden, CO seeks an experienced software engineer to design and deliver high-assurance onboard software for space missions. You will own features from concept through delivery, ensuring robustness and reliability across spacecraft systems.

Responsibilities include code reviews, unit testing, and collaborating on architecture, with opportunities to contribute to satellite operations and mission-critical workflows.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in software engineering with C/C++ and Python.
  • Experience with Git, CI/CD and modern build systems.
  • Knowledge of distributed architectures and POSIX standards.
  • Multi-threaded application development experience is required.
  • Familiarity with networking protocols (UDP/TCP/IP).
  • Experience with embedded Linux (Yocto) and ARM platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement and refine software with ownership and reliability.
  • Review code, enforce standards, and maintain code quality.
  • Develop unit tests for self and peer code.
  • Use version control to manage feature branches and releases.
  • Contribute to onboard software architecture through proposals and reviews.
  • Participate in evolving development processes and standards.
  • Coordinate releases with downstream teams and onboard satellites.

Skills

C/C++
Python
Git
CI/CD
Make/CMake
Multithreading
Networking
Go
Rust
Docker
Kubernetes
Yocto
Go/ Rust

Tools

Git
Jenkins
GitLab-CI
Make
CMake
Docker
K3s
systemd
Googletest
pytest
gRPC

Job description

Loft in Golden, CO seeks an experienced software engineer to design and deliver high-assurance onboard software for space missions. You will own features from concept through delivery, ensuring robustness and reliability across spacecraft systems.

Responsibilities include code reviews, unit testing, and collaborating on architecture, with opportunities to contribute to satellite operations and mission-critical workflows.

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