Network Software Engineer

2 hours ago

Torrance, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$100k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain software that ingests, processes, and routes satellite telemetry, tracking, and command data.
Implement and validate CCSDS protocols, including space packets, transfer frames, synchronization, and data encapsulation.
Develop high-performance data pipelines connecting software-defined radios, ground-station infrastructure, and customer endpoints.
Build tooling for packet parsing, frame validation, buffering, recording, replay, monitoring, and debugging.
Translate customer mission requirements into configurable data-handling workflows and interfaces.
Define and validate interfaces between physical-layer processing and higher-level communications software with DSP and FPGA engineers.
Test communications workflows using simulated, hardware-in-the-loop, and live satellite data.
Own software from design and development through deployment, operational validation, and ongoing mission support.

Bachelor’s degree with 2–5+ years of relevant experience, or master’s degree with 1–4 years of relevant experience, in computer science, electrical engineering, telecommunications, or a related field.
Strong programming skills in a systems-oriented language such as Rust, C++, or Go.
Experience developing software for networking, telecommunications, real-time data processing, or distributed systems.
Understanding of network protocols, binary data formats, serialization, buffering, and asynchronous data processing.
Experience building and debugging software across hardware, network, and external-system boundaries.
Demonstrated ownership of a production software system from initial design through deployment and operational use.
Preferred experience with CCSDS standards, satellite telemetry and command systems, ground stations, mission operations, or mission-data interfaces.
Preferred experience with high-throughput, low-latency, or fault-tolerant pipelines; TCP, UDP, multicast, gRPC, WebSockets, or message-oriented architectures.
Preferred experience integrating software with SDRs, modems, FPGA-based systems, communications hardware, packet capture, protocol analysis, data replay, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or communications-system simulation.
Applicants must meet applicable U.S. Government space technology export authorization requirements, including ITAR requirements.

Reasonable accommodations are available for employment applications and interviews.
Northwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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