Senior Spacecraft Flight Software Engineer

K2Spacecorporation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Life insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

K2 Space is building the largest and highest-power satellites to enable performance across orbit. We develop flight software for propulsion, attitude, power, and telemetry, using Rust, C++, and HDL across real-time embedded environments.

Join a team delivering mission-critical software for spaceflight, with opportunities to grow in architecture, verification, and hardware-in-the-loop testing on multiple spacecraft.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, math, or a STEM discipline or 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Development experience in Rust, C/C++, Python, VHDL, SystemVerilog.

Responsibilities

• Create software architecture for real-time, fault tolerant control of a 20kW+ spacecraft.
• Develop software applications for control of spacecraft subsystems, including propulsion, guidance/attitude control, thermal, power, and communications systems.
• Design and implement state machines for robust operation of the spacecraft.
• Create and utilize robust tools to allow for rapid deployment of quality code.
• Perform data analysis and anomaly investigation to identify and resolve software bugs.
• Support integration and testing of the spacecraft subsystems.
• Build and maintain infrastructure to increase reliability when developing and testing software.

Skills

Rust

C/C++

Python

VHDL

SystemVerilog

Education

Bachelor's degree or 5+ years experience in software engineering

Job description

K2 Space is building the largest and highest-power satellites to enable performance across orbit. We develop flight software for propulsion, attitude, power, and telemetry, using Rust, C++, and HDL across real-time embedded environments.

Join a team delivering mission-critical software for spaceflight, with opportunities to grow in architecture, verification, and hardware-in-the-loop testing on multiple spacecraft.