Senior Ground-Segment Software Engineer – Spacecraft Ops

Varda Space Industries; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term cash awards

Job summary

Varda Space Industries is seeking a Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer in El Segundo to own the ground segment software and the platform it runs on. You will work across telemetry, commands, data acquisition, and mission control interfaces.

You will collaborate on flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission ops, building tools for simulations, device emulators, and automated tests while standardizing CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability across environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical field.
• 5+ years of safety-critical software experience.
• Strong Python knowledge and real-time systems familiarity.
• Experience with CI/CD, observability, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Own Ground Segment Services for telemetry ingestion, distribution, and commanding.
• Develop Mission Control UIs and dashboards to optimize ops time.
• Build flight software simulations, device emulators, and automated tests.
• Design and productionize the mission platform with CI/CD & infra-as-code.
• Create robust deployment patterns across lab and mission networks.

Skills

Python

Concurrency

Networking

Performance

Real-time data

CI/CD

Observability

Algorithms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Physics/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Docker/Kubernetes

Ansible

NiceGUI

Job description

Varda Space Industries is seeking a Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer in El Segundo to own the ground segment software and the platform it runs on. You will work across telemetry, commands, data acquisition, and mission control interfaces.

You will collaborate on flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission ops, building tools for simulations, device emulators, and automated tests while standardizing CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability across environments.