Senior Software Engineer - Test Infrastructure
Loft Orbital Solutions15 hours ago
Base Salary
$140k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain high-fidelity Hardware-in-the-Loop testbeds that emulate spacecraft systems, sensors, and communication links.
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain Electrical Ground Support Equipment for spacecraft assembly, integration, testing, validation, and verification.
- Develop tools and frameworks for simulating faults, edge cases, and mission scenarios.
- Collaborate with systems, software, hardware, and operations teams to integrate evolving test requirements and feedback.
- Maintain and extend test infrastructure supporting continuous integration pipelines and realistic system-level tests.
- Troubleshoot complex issues spanning software, embedded hardware, networking, and system configuration.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
- At least 2 years of experience working with Linux systems, including configuration, debugging, and system-level troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, OSI layers, packet analysis, and TCP/IP and UDP protocols.
- Hands-on experience with embedded systems or low-level hardware such as Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or microcontrollers.
- Proficiency in Python 3.9+ for test automation frameworks, device drivers, or test orchestration tools.
- Experience containerizing applications with Docker.
- Familiarity with at least one modern CI tool, such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildkite, or CircleCI.
- Preferred experience with complex HIL/SIL testbeds, signal conditioning, fault injection, hardware emulation, NixOS, networking simulation tools, virtual switches, or hardware test automation frameworks.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance 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, sick leave, and 12 paid holidays.
- 401(k) plan and equity options.
- Daily catered lunches and snacks.
- International exposure to teams in France.
- Paid parental leave of 14 weeks for primary caregivers and 10 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility.
- Off-sites, social events, and celebrations.
- Relocation assistance when applicable.
- The role supports teams across Golden, Colorado; San Francisco, California; and Toulouse, France.
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.