Telecommunications Software Engineer
northwoodspace2 months ago
Torrance, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain software for ingesting, processing, and routing telemetry, tracking, and command data.
- Implement and validate CCSDS space packets, transfer frames, synchronization, and data encapsulation protocols.
- 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.
- Collaborate with DSP and FPGA engineers on interfaces between physical-layer processing and higher-level communications software.
- Test communications workflows using simulated, hardware-in-the-loop, and live satellite data.
- Own software through development, deployment, operational validation, and ongoing mission support.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 2–5+ years of relevant experience or a 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 debugging software across hardware, network, and external system boundaries.
- Experience owning a production software system from design through deployment and operational use.
- Experience with CCSDS standards, satellite telemetry and command systems, ground stations, or mission operations is preferred.
- Experience with CCSDS File Delivery Protocol, Space Link Extension services, high-throughput or low-latency pipelines, communications hardware, packet capture, protocol analysis, data replay, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or communications-system simulation is preferred.
- Must meet U.S. Government space technology export requirements or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations.
About northwoodspace
Northwood Space builds and operates a global network of phased-array ground stations that provide real-time, reliable links to satellites. It serves government and commercial satellite operators supporting national security, connectivity, and disaster response missions, offering ground-network capacity as a service with a vertically integrated hardware and software stack. The privately held company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and focuses on international markets alongside U.S. government and allied space customers.