Senior Space Mission Software Engineer — Real-Time Ground Ops

Frontdoor Defense; El Segundo (CA); Sur place; USD 169 000 - 216 000; Plein temps

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Stock options

Long-term incentives

Résumé du poste

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA seeks a Senior Space Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software platform for spacecraft operations. You will work on telemetry ingestion, commanding, data distribution, and mission control interfaces across lab, test, and flight environments.

This role requires strong Python development, real-time systems skills, and experience with CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• 5+ years in safety-critical software for spacecraft or similar domain.
• Proficiency in Python and solid systems fundamentals.
• Experience with real-time data acquisition, low-latency messaging, and data distribution.
• Hands-on CI/CD, IaC, and observability tooling.

Responsabilités

• Own Ground Segment Services: telemetry ingestion, distribution, and commanding with deterministic real-time behavior.
• Deliver operator-grade UIs and dashboards for mission ops across environments.
• Build tools for flight software simulations, device emulators, and automated tests.
• Design and productionize the mission platform with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
• Create deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks with safe rollout strategies.

Connaissances

Python

Distributed systems

Real-time data

CI/CD

Formation

Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering

Outils

Docker

Kubernetes

Description du poste

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA seeks a Senior Space Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software platform for spacecraft operations. You will work on telemetry ingestion, commanding, data distribution, and mission control interfaces across lab, test, and flight environments.

This role requires strong Python development, real-time systems skills, and experience with CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and observability.