Senior Space 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 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 self-service workflows.
• Develop deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks, including safe rollouts, rollbacks, and limited-connectivity deployments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, 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, scaling, and distribution services using low-latency messaging and time-series and relational stores.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, observability, Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and controlled networks.
• Preferred qualifications include proficiency in C++, Ansible, or NiceGUI; experience with DAQ, closed-loop control, flight-software-integrated testing and simulation tools, safety-critical certification artifacts, ground-systems standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA and employer-matched HSA options, and additional voluntary insurance.
• $120/month wellness reimbursement, parental and family-building benefits, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match, cell phone reimbursement, relocation support, and incentive equity or long-term cash awards.
• Stocked kitchen with daily lunch and twice-weekly dinner, team events, happy hours, mission-success celebrations, and complimentary EV charging.
• Full-time role that is on-site in El Segundo, California.