Onboard Software Engineer - Hyperdrive
Loft Orbital Solutions2 months ago
Toulouse, FranceSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, refine, and deliver robust software features end-to-end.
- Review code, provide feedback, and maintain development processes, style guides, and design standards.
- Create unit tests for self-authored and peer-authored code.
- Use version control to manage feature branches and merge approved code into production.
- Contribute to onboard software architecture through design proposals and collaborative reviews.
- Coordinate with downstream teams on releases, distribution, and adoption.
- Participate in operating Loft Orbital’s on-orbit satellite fleet.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience using C/C++ 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 such as UDP/TCP/IP, and POSIX standards.
- Experience developing multithreaded applications.
- Preferred: familiarity with Go or Rust and embedded Linux on ARM platforms, including Yocto, device trees, and systemd.
- Preferred: proficiency with pytest, Googletest, or Unity; experience with gRPC or ZMQ/NATS; and experience with Docker, K3S, or systemd-nspawn.
Benefits
- Equity participation.
- Up to 35 days of paid time off and flexible working hours.
- Health and life insurance.
- Lunch vouchers.
- Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse.
- Company and team off-sites and other events.
- Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable.
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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.