Space Mission Software Engineer II
Varda Space Industries9 hours ago
El Segundo, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$144k - $184k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain high-reliability services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, commanding, and post-flight analysis.
- Build operator-grade mission-control UIs and dashboards for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
- Create flight-software simulations, device emulators, scenario-based automated tests, test harnesses, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks.
- Design and productionize mission-platform software, including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling.
- Develop deployment patterns and safe rollout/rollback strategies for lab benches, test stands, mission networks, and air-gapped or limited-connectivity environments.
- Work hands-on with flight software, avionics, RF and ground systems, and mission operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
- At least 3 years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
- Expertise with Python and strong understanding of concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
- Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services using low-latency messaging, time-series stores, and relational stores.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, and infrastructure-as-code.
- End-to-end observability experience with logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and operational readiness for controlled networks.
- Preferred experience with C++, Ansible, NiceGUI, DAQ, closed-loop control, CI/testing/simulation/data tools, safety-critical requirements and certification artifacts, ground-systems standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.
Benefits
- Fully on-site work in El Segundo, California.
- Flexible PTO and 12 paid holidays.
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
- Voluntary accident, hospital, critical illness, and pet insurance, plus a $120/month wellness reimbursement.
- 12 weeks of parental leave and family-building, pregnancy, parenting, and menopause benefits.
- Sponsored One Medical memberships.
- 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match.
- $20 per-pay-period cell phone reimbursement and relocation support for new hires if needed.
- Stock options and/or long-term cash awards, plus a fully stocked kitchen, daily lunch, twice-weekly dinner, company events, and complimentary EV charging.
About Varda Space Industries
Varda is building the infrastructure for a thriving orbital economy, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules. From new, life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optic cables, there is a world of products used to benefit life on Earth that can only be manufactured in space. Our mission is to expand the economic bounds of humankind.