Space Mission 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 software, including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling.
• Develop deployment patterns and safe rollout/rollback strategies for lab benches, test stands, mission networks, and air-gapped or limited-connectivity environments.
• Work hands-on with flight software, avionics, RF and ground systems, and mission operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
• At least 3 years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
• Expertise with Python and strong understanding of concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
• Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services using low-latency messaging, time-series stores, and relational 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.
• Preferred experience with C++, Ansible, NiceGUI, DAQ, closed-loop control, CI/testing/simulation/data tools, safety-critical requirements and certification artifacts, ground-systems standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.

Benefits

• Fully on-site work in El Segundo, California.
• Flexible PTO and 12 paid holidays.
• 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 and family-building, pregnancy, parenting, and menopause benefits.
• Sponsored One Medical memberships.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% immediately vested employer match.
• $20 per-pay-period cell phone reimbursement and relocation support for new hires if needed.
• Stock options and/or long-term cash awards, plus a fully stocked kitchen, daily lunch, twice-weekly dinner, company events, and complimentary EV charging.