Senior Space Mission Software Engineer - Ground Systems

Varda Space Industries; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term cash awards

Job summary

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Space Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software platform and telemetry/commanding systems. You will work with flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission ops across lab, test range, and on-orbit environments.

You will develop real-time, low-latency data handling, CI/CD automation, and robust deployment strategies across environments, ensuring reliability and observability in mission operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering or equivalent technical experience in safety critical software.

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.
• 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 data

Observability

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

C++

Ansible

NiceGUI

Git

Job description

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Space Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software platform and telemetry/commanding systems. You will work with flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission ops across lab, test range, and on-orbit environments.

You will develop real-time, low-latency data handling, CI/CD automation, and robust deployment strategies across environments, ensuring reliability and observability in mission operations.