Senior Ground Systems Software Engineer

Telemetry Today LLC; El Segundo (CA); Presencial; USD 169.000 - 216.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Stock options

Long-term cash awards

Descripción de la vacante

Varda Space Industries is seeking a Senior Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software and the platform that enables spacecraft operations. You will work at the intersection of telemetry, commanding, data acquisition, and mission control interfaces, with hands-on work on flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission ops.

You will build reliable ground services, develop operator dashboards, and implement CI/CD patterns, simulation, and test automation to support lab,

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in CS, math, physics, engineering or equivalent safety-critical software experience.
• 5+ years in development of spacecraft or safety-critical software.
• Expertise with Python and core language concepts.
• Strong systems fundamentals: concurrency, networking, performance, reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, low-latency messaging, time-series/databases.
• Hands-on CI/CD, build systems, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Observability: logging, metrics, tracing.
• Docker/Kubernetes; release management for controlled networks.

Responsabilidades

• Own Ground Segment Services: develop high-reliability telemetry ingestion, distribution, and commanding.
• Mission Control Interfaces: deliver operator UIs and dashboards to optimize ops.
• Simulation and Test Automation: build tools for flight-software simulations and device emulators.
• Build the Mission Platform: design, implement, and productionize software, CI/CD pipelines, infra-as-code.
• Deployments Across Environments: create safe deployment patterns for lab and mission networks.

Conocimientos

Python

Real-time systems

Safety-critical

Concurrency

Observability

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Herramientas

Docker/Kubernetes

NiceGUI

Ansible

Descripción del empleo

Varda Space Industries is seeking a Senior Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software and the platform that enables spacecraft operations. You will work at the intersection of telemetry, commanding, data acquisition, and mission control interfaces, with hands-on work on flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission ops.

You will build reliable ground services, develop operator dashboards, and implement CI/CD patterns, simulation, and test automation to support lab,