Senior Spaceflight Ground Systems Engineer

vardaspace; El Segundo (CA); Presencial; USD 169.000 - 216.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Stock options

Long-term cash awards

Descripción de la vacante

Varda is seeking a Senior Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software and the platform enabling spacecraft operations. You will work with flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission ops, delivering scalable telemetry and commanding services and operator-friendly dashboards.

You will build tools for simulations, device emulators, and automated tests, and productionize the mission platform with robust deployment and observability.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, or engineering.
• 5+ years of spacecraft or safety-critical software experience.
• Strong Python development skills.
• Solid systems fundamentals: concurrency, networking, performance, reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services.
• Hands-on CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code experience.
• End-to-end observability: logging, metrics, tracing.
• Docker/Kubernetes; release management and operational readiness for controlled networks.

Responsabilidades

• Own Ground Segment Services: develop high-reliability telemetry, distribution, and commanding services.
• Deliver operator-grade UIs and dashboards for ops time optimization.
• Build tools for flight-software simulations, device emulators, and automated tests.
• Design and productionize the Mission Platform with CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Create deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks.

Conocimientos

Python

C++

Ansible

NiceGUI

Real-time systems

Educación

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

Herramientas

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Descripción del empleo

Varda is seeking a Senior Mission Software Engineer to own the ground segment software and the platform enabling spacecraft operations. You will work with flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission ops, delivering scalable telemetry and commanding services and operator-friendly dashboards.

You will build tools for simulations, device emulators, and automated tests, and productionize the mission platform with robust deployment and observability.