The Exploration Company

Develop mission-critical Mission Control Software and supporting tools that power integrated testing and space mission operations. This full-stack role combines backend systems, modern frontend development, real-time data processing, and operational reliability.

Join The Exploration Company as a GNC Software Intern and help design, implement, simulate, test, and validate guidance, navigation, and control software for spacecraft and missions. You will gain hands-on experience across the full GNC lifecycle, from algorithms and simulations to flight software and post-flight analysis.

Support certification and verification of Nyx flight software, ensuring it meets functional, performance, safety, and regulatory requirements. The role bridges software development, systems engineering, testing, certification bodies, and safety authorities in an aerospace environment.

Support the verification, validation, and certification of flight software for the Nyx space transportation program. This role connects software development, system engineering, testing, safety, and certification teams to ensure flight software meets rigorous requirements.

Develop and integrate automated test software for aerospace electronics across board, equipment, and subsystem levels. You will shape reusable Hardware-in-the-Loop test frameworks using LabVIEW and National Instruments tools.

Lead the architecture and hands-on development of a full-stack Test Bench Control System supporting integrated engine hot-fire testing. This Principal Engineer role combines software ownership, real-time data processing, operator interfaces, safety-critical design, and leadership of a multidisciplinary team.

Lead the development of high-reliability flight software controlling The Exploration Company’s Nyx spacecraft from launch through recovery. This hands-on principal role combines technical leadership, spacecraft software architecture, real-time C++ and Python development, and rigorous validation.

Senior Flight Software Engineer responsible for building reliable, autonomous flight software for the Nyx spacecraft. The role combines modern C++ and Python development with simulations, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and cross-functional vehicle integration.