Onboard Software Engineer - Peripheral Services
Loft Orbital Solutions2 months ago
Toulouse, FranceMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and refine reliable onboard software features from concept through delivery.
- Own model compilation and performance tooling for machine-learning models running on flight hardware.
- Contribute to onboard software architecture through design proposals and collaborative reviews.
- Develop unit and integration tests for authored and peer-authored code.
- Review code and uphold development processes, style guides, and design standards.
- Use version control and collaborative workflows to merge approved changes into production branches.
- Coordinate with downstream teams on release distribution and adoption.
- Participate in operating Loft’s on-orbit satellite fleet.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of software engineering experience using C/C++ including C++11 or newer and Python.
- Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows.
- Experience with continuous integration tools such as GitLab-CI or Jenkins.
- Knowledge of Make or CMake build systems.
- Understanding of distributed architecture, networking protocols, and POSIX standards.
- Experience developing multithreaded applications.
- Previous experience in a team leader or manager role.
- Preferred qualifications include Go or Rust, embedded Linux, Yocto, device trees, systemd, Linux on ARM, pytest, Googletest, Unity, gRPC, ZMQ, NATS, Docker, K3S, systemd-nspawn, and space systems.
Benefits
- Equity participation.
- Up to 35 days of paid time off and flexible working hours.
- Health and life insurance.
- Lunch vouchers.
- Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse.
- Company and team off-sites and other events.
- Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable.
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About Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions builds standardized satellite platforms and delivers end-to-end missions as a service for governments, companies, and research institutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held firm integrates, launches, and operates spacecraft to deploy Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on‑orbit compute, and national security payloads in months. Loft has flown more than 30 missions, using hardware and software abstraction layers atop commodity satellite buses.