Onboard Software Engineer - Core Services
Loft Orbital Solutions2 months ago
Golden, CO, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$140k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, refine, test, and deliver robust onboard software features with end-to-end ownership.
- Review code, provide feedback, and maintain software development processes, style guides, and design standards.
- Contribute to onboard software architecture through design proposals and collaborative reviews.
- Use version control, continuous integration, and build systems to develop and release software.
- Coordinate with downstream teams on release, distribution, and adoption of software releases.
- Participate in operating Loft Orbital's on-orbit satellite fleet.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of software engineering experience using C/C++ including C++11 or newer and Python.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git.
- Experience with continuous integration tools such as GitLab-CI or Jenkins.
- Experience with build systems such as Make or CMake.
- Understanding of distributed architecture, networking protocols including UDP, TCP, and IP, and POSIX standards.
- Experience developing multithreaded applications.
- Preferred: familiarity with Go, Rust, embedded Linux, Yocto, device trees, systemd, Linux on ARM, testing frameworks, middleware, and containerization technologies.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, including coverage options for employees and dependents.
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts, including an employer HSA contribution.
- Employer-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Flexible time off, 12 paid holidays, a 401(k) plan, and equity options.
- Daily catered lunches and snacks, paid parental leave, fertility and family-forming benefits, off-sites, social events, and celebrations.
- International exposure to the France-based team and relocation assistance 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.