Senior Ground Software Engineer
Reflect Orbital2 months ago
Hawthorne, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$120k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain satellite ground software for telemetry ingestion, processing, display, command generation, and uplink workflows.
- Lead the design of operator-facing tools, dashboards, automation, pass execution, routine commanding, and alerting.
- Deploy and operate ground software on AWS and Kubernetes while maintaining configuration management and infrastructure as code.
- Integrate ground-station hardware and network interfaces, including radios, routers, and antenna controllers.
- Lead GSaaS integrations and validate end-to-end data paths between satellites, ground stations, and cloud infrastructure.
- Validate ground software with simulators and test environments before operational use.
- Resolve root causes of issues spanning software, networks, ground stations, and mission systems.
- Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and provide 24/7 on-call support for mission-critical systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of experience developing ground-systems software, including services, APIs, and applications.
- Experience owning systems end to end from design through deployment and on-call operation.
- Experience deploying and operating software on AWS with Kubernetes and CI/CD systems.
- Strong understanding of networking protocols, routing, VPNs, and secure connectivity.
- Knowledge of satellite ground systems, ground-station networking, antenna interfaces, and RF subsystems.
- Experience with Ground Station-as-a-Service providers and with services backed by relational or time-series databases and real-time data.
- Familiarity with Linux environments and command-line tools.
- Strong programming and scripting skills; Python and C++ are preferred.
- Experience with DevOps tools and practices, including Git and Docker.
- Experience with multi-satellite constellation operations and CCSDS protocols or ground-station network integrations is a plus.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of each base policy covered by Reflect.
- Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K plans.
- Unlimited paid time off, with two weeks per year encouraged.
- Healthy lunches provided daily.
About Reflect Orbital
Reflect Orbital builds satellite-based systems to deliver and store sunlight so solar farms and urban lighting can operate after dark. The privately held company, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Los Angeles, is developing a flying constellation intended to provide continuous solar energy services. It sells delivered sunlight and related services to energy producers and infrastructure operators.