Real-Time Ground Software Lead – Telemetry & Control

Astro Mechanica CORP.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

401(k) program and stock option plan

Flexible time-off: PTO/holidays/sick

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Astro Mechanica is seeking a Senior Ground Software Engineer (Telemetry & Control) to own the data from air to Mission Control. You will architect and implement the end-to-end ground data pipeline, ensuring low-latency telemetry processing, storage, and real-time visualization.

You will design for fault tolerance, select appropriate databases, and build operator tools to monitor aircraft health. This role emphasizes backend and cloud work, with frontend data visualization as a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or a Science discipline and 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building real-time data or telemetry ingestion and processing systems.
• Experience implementing a cloud stack that ingests data, stores it in a database, and processes it to serve an application.
• Hands-on experience with time series databases and understanding trade-offs between database technologies and data ingestion approaches.
• Experience designing low-latency, high-reliability systems, including fault tolerance for network and service failures.
• Proficiency in the languages, frameworks, and API design used to expose data from a database to applications.
• Breadth across the stack with depth in backend and cloud; frontend experience is a plus.
• Telemetry from physical systems and observability tooling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the end-to-end ground data pipeline, from telemetry ingestion off the radio link through real-time processing, storage, backend APIs and business logic, to front-end visualization in Mission Control.
• Drive low latency across the entire system, targeting roughly one second from aircraft to operator display.
• Design for fault tolerance so that a failed network path, a crashed service, or a cloud region outage never puts the aircraft at risk.
• Select and operate the right database technologies, including time series databases, for flight telemetry.
• Build tools operators use to monitor aircraft health and command the plane.
• Keep the pipeline clean and simple so the team can reason about it end to end.
• Work with flight software to define interfaces between aircraft and ground.

Skills

Real-time telemetry

Data ingestion

Time-series DBs

Cloud architecture

Backend development

API design

Frontend live data

Telemetry experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Science

Job description

Astro Mechanica is seeking a Senior Ground Software Engineer (Telemetry & Control) to own the data from air to Mission Control. You will architect and implement the end-to-end ground data pipeline, ensuring low-latency telemetry processing, storage, and real-time visualization.

You will design for fault tolerance, select appropriate databases, and build operator tools to monitor aircraft health. This role emphasizes backend and cloud work, with frontend data visualization as a plus.