Mission Software Engineer II
Varda Space Industries6 hours ago
El Segundo, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$144k - $184k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain high-reliability telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding services.
- Build operator-grade mission-control UIs and dashboards for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
- Create flight-software simulations, device emulators, scenario-based automated tests, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks.
- Design and productionize CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, test harnesses, and observability as self-service tooling.
- Implement robust deployments, safe rollouts and rollbacks, and air-gapped or limited-connectivity deployment approaches across lab, test, and mission environments.
- Work hands-on with flight software, avionics, RF and ground systems, and mission operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
- 3+ years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
- Expertise developing in Python and strong understanding of language concepts.
- Strong fundamentals in concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
- Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services with low-latency messaging and time-series and relational stores.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and operational readiness for controlled networks.
- Preferred: proficiency in C++, Ansible, and/or NiceGUI; experience with DAQ, closed-loop control, flight-software-integrated CI/testing/simulation/data tools, safety-critical requirements and certification artifacts, ground-system standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.
Benefits
- On-site role in El Segundo, California.
- Regular full-time employees receive flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA and employer-matched HSA options, and supplemental insurance options.
- $120/month wellness reimbursement, 12 weeks of parental leave, family-building and related benefits through Maven Clinic, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
- Stock options and/or long-term cash awards, a 401(k) with a 6% immediately vested employer match, cell-phone reimbursement, and relocation support if needed.
- Daily provided lunch, dinner twice weekly, company events, happy hours, mission-success celebrations, and complimentary EV charging.
About Varda Space Industries
Varda Space Industries builds and operates in-orbit manufacturing platforms and reentry capsules so pharmaceutical and materials companies can produce goods in microgravity and return them to Earth. The company designs its W‑Series vehicles in-house, including pharmaceutical processing payloads, capsules, heat shields, and satellite buses, and sells manufacturing and reentry services to commercial customers. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, it also has offices in Washington, DC and Huntsville, Alabama.