Senior Mission Software Engineer
Varda Space Industries1 day 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 interfaces 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 services, CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling.
- Deploy software across lab benches, test stands, and mission networks using safe rollout, rollback, and limited-connectivity strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
- At least 5 years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
- Expertise in Python and strong understanding of concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
- Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services with low-latency messaging and time-series and relational stores.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, logging, metrics, tracing, Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and controlled networks.
- Preferred qualifications include proficiency in C++, Ansible, or NiceGUI; experience with DAQ, closed-loop control, flight-software testing and simulation, safety-critical certification artifacts, ground-system standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.
Benefits
- Salary range is $169,067-$216,031 per year, with eligibility for stock options and/or long-term cash awards.
- This is an on-site role in El Segundo, California.
- Employees must meet Varda's U.S.-person requirement for access to export-controlled technology.
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.