Ground Systems Software Engineer II

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-reliability services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, commanding, and post-flight analysis.
• 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, test harnesses, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks.
• Design and productionize mission-platform tooling, including service templates, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and self-service workflows.
• Create deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, mission networks, and air-gapped or limited-connectivity environments, including safe rollout and rollback strategies.
• 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.
• At least 3 years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
• Expertise developing in Python and strong understanding of its language concepts.
• Strong systems fundamentals in concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services using low-latency messaging and time-series and relational data stores.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, and infrastructure-as-code.
• End-to-end observability experience with logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and operational readiness for controlled networks.
• Proficiency in C++, Ansible, and/or NiceGUI is preferred.
• Preferred experience includes DAQ and closed-loop control, flight-software-integrated CI/testing/simulation/data tools, safety-critical requirements and certification artifacts, ground-systems standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, and company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
• Voluntary accident, hospital, critical illness, and pet insurance, plus a $120/month wellness reimbursement.
• 12 weeks of parental leave, family-building and parenting benefits through Maven Clinic, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
• Stock options and/or long-term cash awards, a 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match, and a $20/pay-period cell phone reimbursement.
• Relocation support for new hires if needed.
• Fully stocked kitchen with lunch daily and dinner twice weekly, team events, happy hours, mission-success celebrations, and complimentary EV charging.
• Full-time, on-site work in El Segundo, California.