Senior Mission Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-reliability services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding.
• Build operator-grade mission-control UIs and dashboards for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
• Create flight-software simulation tools, device emulators, scenario-based automated tests, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks.
• Design and productionize mission-platform software, including service templates, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and self-service tooling.
• Create safe deployment, rollout, rollback, and limited-connectivity deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks.

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 fundamentals in concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services using low-latency messaging and time-series or 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 qualifications include C++, Ansible, NiceGUI, DAQ and closed-loop control, flight-software-integrated testing and simulation tools, safety-critical requirements and certification artifacts, ground-systems standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.

Benefits

• On-site role in El Segundo, California.
• Eligible for incentives in the form of stock options and/or long-term cash awards.