Senior Mission Software Engineer, Ground Systems for Space Ops

Telemetry Today LLC; El Segundo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Relocation support

401(k) matching

Wellness reimbursement

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Varda Space Industries seeks a Senior Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software and the platform enabling spacecraft operations. You will work with telemetry, command, data distribution, and mission control interfaces across lab, test range, and on‑orbit environments.

You’ll build real‑time data acquisition and monitoring components, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with avionics, RF/ground systems, and operations teams to ensure safe, scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering or equivalent technical experience in safety critical software.
• 5+ years of experience in the development of spacecraft or similar safety critical software.
• Expertise with development in Python, along with a strong understanding of the language concepts.
• Have strong systems fundamentals: concurrency, networking, performance, reliability.
• Experience building real‑time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services - low‑latency messaging, time‑series and relational stores.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD, dependency/build systems, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• End‑to‑end observability experience: logging, metrics, tracing.
• Docker/Kubernetes; release management, phased rollouts, and operational readiness for controlled networks.

Responsibilities

• Own Ground Segment Services: Develop and maintain high‑reliability services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding.
• Mission Control Interfaces: Deliver operator‑grade UIs and dashboards that optimize ops time and reduce cognitive load across integration, test, and on‑orbit operations phases.
• Simulation and Test Automation: Build tools to run flight‑software simulations, device emulators, and scenario‑based automated tests‑ enabling fast, safe iteration for avionics, GNC, and operations teams.
• Build the Mission Platform: Design, implement, and productionize software for mission and ground software teams. Standardize CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure‑as‑code, simulation and hardware‑in‑the‑loop frameworks, test harnesses, and observability - all delivered as self‑service tooling.
• Deployments Across Environments: Create robust deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks. Implement safe rollout/rollback strategies and air‑gapped or limited‑connectivity deployment approaches.

Skills

Python

Concurrency

Networking

Real-time systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Varda Space Industries seeks a Senior Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software and the platform enabling spacecraft operations. You will work with telemetry, command, data distribution, and mission control interfaces across lab, test range, and on‑orbit environments.

You’ll build real‑time data acquisition and monitoring components, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with avionics, RF/ground systems, and operations teams to ensure safe, scalable deployments.