Senior Spacecraft Software Engineer: On-Site & Stock Options

Telemetry Today LLC; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term cash awards

On-site work El Segundo

Job summary

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, is hiring a Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software and the platform it runs on, enabling spacecraft operations. You will work across telemetry, commanding, data acquisition, and mission control interfaces with flight software teams.

Required qualifications include a BS in a technical field, 5+ years in safety-critical software for spacecraft, strong Python, and experience with CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and

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 and strong understanding of language concepts.
• Strong systems fundamentals: concurrency, networking, performance, reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services with low-latency messaging.
• 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 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 for operations phases.
• Simulation and Test Automation: Build tools for flight-software simulations and scenario-based automated tests.
• Build the Mission Platform: Design, implement, and productionize software for mission and ground teams including CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Deployments Across Environments: Create robust deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks.

Skills

Python

Concurrency

Networking

Performance

CI/CD

Observability

Docker/Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering or equivalent safety-critical software

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, is hiring a Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software and the platform it runs on, enabling spacecraft operations. You will work across telemetry, commanding, data acquisition, and mission control interfaces with flight software teams.

Required qualifications include a BS in a technical field, 5+ years in safety-critical software for spacecraft, strong Python, and experience with CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and