Onboard Software Engineer - Hyperdrive
Loft Orbital Solutions2 months ago
Base Salary
$155k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, refine, and maintain robust onboard software features from concept through delivery.
- Review code, provide feedback, and uphold development processes, style guides, and design standards.
- Write unit tests for self-authored and peer-authored code.
- Use version control to create branches, push code, and merge approved changes into production.
- Contribute to onboard software architecture through design proposals and collaborative reviews.
- Improve software development processes and design standards.
- Coordinate with downstream teams on release, distribution, and adoption of software releases.
- Participate in operating Loft Orbital’s on-orbit satellite fleet.
Requirements
- 5+ 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.
- Experience with library management and ABI/API version control.
- Understanding of distributed architecture, networking protocols, and POSIX standards.
- Experience developing multithreaded applications.
- Preferred: familiarity with Go or Rust.
- Preferred: experience with embedded Linux, Yocto, device trees, systemd, and Linux on ARM platforms.
- Preferred: proficiency with pytest, Googletest, or Unity.
- Preferred: experience with gRPC, ZMQ, or NATS middleware.
- Preferred: experience with Docker, K3S, or systemd-nspawn containerization.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance 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 collaboration with the France team.
- Paid parental leave of 14 weeks for primary caregivers and 10 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Carrot Fertility benefits with financial support for fertility healthcare and family-forming services.
- Off-sites, social events, and celebrations.
- Relocation assistance when applicable.
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.