Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer

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 mission-platform tooling including service templates, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, test harnesses, observability, and deployment systems.
• Implement safe rollout and rollback patterns for lab benches, test stands, mission networks, and air-gapped or limited-connectivity environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
• 5+ 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 using low-latency messaging and time-series and relational stores.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, infrastructure-as-code, logging, metrics, tracing, Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and operational readiness for controlled networks.
• Preferred proficiency in C++, Ansible, and/or NiceGUI.
• Preferred experience with DAQ, 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

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