Senior Ground-Segment Space Mission Software Engineer

Telemetry Today LLC; El Segundo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybride; USD 169 000 - 216 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Stock options

Long-term cash awards

Résumé du poste

Varda Space Industries, based in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Mission Software Engineer to own the critical ground segment software enabling spacecraft operations. You will work across telemetry, commanding, and data distribution for lab, test, and mission environments.

You’ll lead development of operator dashboards, CI/CD pipelines, and simulation tools, collaborating with avionics, RF/ground teams, and mission operations to deliver reliable, scalable software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, physics, engineering, math or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in safety-critical software development for spacecraft.
• Strong Python skills and systems fundamentals (concurrency, networking, performance).
• Experience with real-time data acquisition, low-latency messaging, time-series stores.
• Hands-on with CI/CD, dependency/build systems and infrastructure-as-code.
• End-to-end observability: logging, metrics, tracing.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and release management.

Responsabilités

• Own Ground Segment Services: develop and maintain high-reliability telemetry ingestion and distribution.
• Mission Control Interfaces: deliver operator-grade UIs and dashboards for ops teams.
• Simulation and Test Automation: build tools for flight-software simulations and tests.
• Build the Mission Platform: standardize CI/CD pipelines, templates, infrastructure-as-code.
• Deployments Across Environments: robust deployment patterns with safe rollout strategies.

Connaissances

Python

Concurrency

Networking

Real-time data

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-code

Observability

Docker/Kubernetes

Observability

Formation

Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering or equivalent

Outils

Ansible

NiceGUI

Description du poste

Varda Space Industries, based in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Mission Software Engineer to own the critical ground segment software enabling spacecraft operations. You will work across telemetry, commanding, and data distribution for lab, test, and mission environments.

You’ll lead development of operator dashboards, CI/CD pipelines, and simulation tools, collaborating with avionics, RF/ground teams, and mission operations to deliver reliable, scalable software.