Senior Mission Software Engineer — Real-Time Ground Systems

Varda Space Industries; El Segundo (CA); In loco; USD 169.000 - 216.000; Tempo pieno

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Descrizione del lavoro

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Mission Software Engineer to own ground-segment software across telemetry, commanding, data acquisition, and mission-control interfaces. You will work hands-on with flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission ops.

The role focuses on building deterministic real-time services, scalable dashboards, and production-grade CI/CD tooling, enabling safe, repeatable test and deployment across lab and flight environments.

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in safety-critical spacecraft 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.

Mansioni

• Own Ground Segment Services: Develop and maintain high-reliability services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding. Ensure deterministic behavior for real-time operations and post-flight analysis.
• 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.

Conoscenze

Python

Concurrency

Networking

Performance

Reliability

CI/CD

Observability

Docker/Kubernetes

Formazione

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

Strumenti

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

NiceGUI

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Descrizione del lavoro

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Mission Software Engineer to own ground-segment software across telemetry, commanding, data acquisition, and mission-control interfaces. You will work hands-on with flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission ops.

The role focuses on building deterministic real-time services, scalable dashboards, and production-grade CI/CD tooling, enabling safe, repeatable test and deployment across lab and flight environments.