Senior Ground Software Engineer, Telemetry & Control

Speedrun Talent Network; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

401(k) program and transparent stock

Flexible time-off policy

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Astro Mechanica is seeking a Senior Ground Software Engineer (Telemetry & Control) to own the aircraft data stream from source to operator visualization. You will architect an end-to-end ground data pipeline, optimize for one-second latency, and ensure fault-tolerant operation across networks and services.

You will work with flight software teams to define interfaces between aircraft and ground systems, select suitable databases (including time-series options), and build tools for monitoring

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 a strong understanding of the 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 the greatest depth on the backend and cloud side; you don't need to have built every layer.
• Front-end experience building web apps that query a server and render live data is a plus.
• Experience with telemetry from physical systems (aircraft, launch vehicles, satellites, autonomous vehicles, or connected vehicle fleets), radio links, or mission control 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, not just one stage, 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 the tools operators use to monitor aircraft health and command the plane
• Keep the pipeline clean and simple enough that the team can reason about it end to end
• Work closely with flight software and other engineering disciplines to define the interfaces between the aircraft and the ground

Skills

Real-time telemetry ingestion

Cloud data stack

Time-series databases

Low-latency design

Backend and cloud proficiency

Frontend live data apps

Telemetry from physical systems

Education

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

Tools

Time-series databases

Job description

Astro Mechanica is seeking a Senior Ground Software Engineer (Telemetry & Control) to own the aircraft data stream from source to operator visualization. You will architect an end-to-end ground data pipeline, optimize for one-second latency, and ensure fault-tolerant operation across networks and services.

You will work with flight software teams to define interfaces between aircraft and ground systems, select suitable databases (including time-series options), and build tools for monitoring