Senior Space Mission Software Engineer
Varda Space Industries13 hours ago
El Segundo, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$169k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain high-reliability services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding.
- 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, and test harnesses.
- Design and productionize mission-platform tooling including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks.
- Create robust deployment patterns and safe rollout and rollback strategies for lab benches, test stands, mission networks, and air-gapped environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
- 5+ years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
- Expertise in Python and strong understanding of language concepts.
- Strong fundamentals in 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, infrastructure-as-code, 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 certification workflows, ground-systems standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.
Benefits
- On-site role 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.
- $120/month wellness reimbursement, 12 weeks of parental leave, family-building benefits, and 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 meals, team events, and complimentary EV charging.
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About Varda Space Industries
Varda Space Industries builds and operates in-orbit manufacturing platforms and reentry capsules so pharmaceutical and materials companies can produce goods in microgravity and return them to Earth. The company designs its W‑Series vehicles in-house, including pharmaceutical processing payloads, capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses, and sells manufacturing and reentry services to commercial customers. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, it also has offices in Washington, DC and Huntsville, Alabama.