Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer
Varda Space Industries23 hours ago
El Segundo, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$169k - $216k/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 test harnesses.
- Design and productionize mission-platform tooling, including service templates, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and deployment systems.
- Implement deployment patterns, safe rollout and rollback strategies, and air-gapped or limited-connectivity deployments across lab, test, and mission environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
- At least 5 years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
- Expertise in Python and strong understanding of concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
- Experience building real-time data acquisition, low-latency messaging, scaling, and distribution services with time-series and relational stores.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, logging, metrics, tracing, release management, phased rollouts, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Preferred qualifications include proficiency in C++, Ansible, or NiceGUI; experience with DAQ, closed-loop control, flight-software integrations, safety-critical requirements and certification artifacts, ground-systems standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.
Benefits
- Onsite role in El Segundo, California.
- Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA and employer-matched HSA options, and supplemental insurance options.
- $120 per month wellness reimbursement, parental and family-building benefits, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
- Stock options or long-term cash awards, a 401(k) with a 6% immediately vested employer match, cell phone reimbursement, and relocation support if needed.
- Daily lunch, twice-weekly dinner, company events, complimentary EV charging, and other workplace perks.
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.