Onboard Software Engineer, Hyperdrive - Spacecraft Core

Loftorbital; Golden (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (medical)

Dental and vision insurance

Flexible time off

401(k) with equity options

Relocation assistance

Daily catered lunches

Parental leave

Off-sites and team events

Job summary

Loft is seeking a software engineer to join the Onboard Software group in Golden, CO. You will design, implement, and refine onboard software powering space missions, with emphasis on reliability, testing, and collaboration across teams.

You will work with C/C++, Python, Go or Rust, and modern CI/CD tooling in an embedded Linux environment, contributing to the core Hyperdrive platform and potential hands-on satellite operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with C/C++ and Python.
• Experience with Git and CI pipelines (GitLab-CI, Jenkins).
• Solid knowledge of build systems and ABI/API versioning.
• Experience with multi-threaded, distributed software in an embedded/Linux context.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and refine software with ownership from concept to delivery.
• Review code, enforce standards, and ensure quality across the codebase.
• Design and implement unit tests for own and peer code.
• Coordinate releases with downstream teams and operate onboard fleet systems.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Go

Rust

Multithreading

Distributed architecture

Networking: UDP/TCP/IP

Tools

Git

CI Tools: GitLab-CI, Jenkins

Make, CMake

ABI/API version control

Unit test frameworks: pytest, Googletest, Unity

gRPC, ZMQ/NATS

Docker, K3S

Yocto/embedded Linux

Job description

Loft is seeking a software engineer to join the Onboard Software group in Golden, CO. You will design, implement, and refine onboard software powering space missions, with emphasis on reliability, testing, and collaboration across teams.

You will work with C/C++, Python, Go or Rust, and modern CI/CD tooling in an embedded Linux environment, contributing to the core Hyperdrive platform and potential hands-on satellite operations.