Space Infrastructure Software Engineer — Ground Stations & API

Northwood; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwood, a modern space infrastructure company in Torrance, CA, seeks a Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize the global service delivering connectivity to customers. You will own areas from embedded controls of antenna systems to customer APIs enabling booking time on our network.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of software development, a related bachelor’s degree, and hands-on experience with API design, authentication, and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Basic qualifications: 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Completed bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or other related major.
• Knowledge of API design, authentication, and access control best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement control systems for our ground station hardware, you will write software that interacts with everything from embedded systems to RF modems
• Create comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions for software and infrastructure
• Develop software for production line bring-up and testing
• Design and implement software that orchestrates our global antenna network and data plane

Skills

API design

authentication

access control

communication

microservices architecture

UI/UX best practices

containerization

CI/CD pipelines

automated testing frameworks

orchestration engines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or related major

Tools

Rust

Python

C/C++

Job description

Northwood, a modern space infrastructure company in Torrance, CA, seeks a Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize the global service delivering connectivity to customers. You will own areas from embedded controls of antenna systems to customer APIs enabling booking time on our network.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of software development, a related bachelor’s degree, and hands-on experience with API design, authentication, and distributed systems.