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Mission Software Engineer II

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Mission Software Engineer II in USA new

  • Varda Space Industries
  • Full time
  • Email
  • El Segundo, CA

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 CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, test harnesses, and observability as self-service tooling.
  • Implement robust deployments, safe rollouts and rollbacks, and air-gapped or limited-connectivity deployment approaches across lab, test, and mission environments.
  • 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.
  • 3+ 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 with low-latency messaging and time-series and 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: proficiency in C++, Ansible, and/or NiceGUI; experience with DAQ, closed-loop control, flight-software-integrated CI/testing/simulation/data tools, safety-critical requirements and certification artifacts, ground-system standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.

Benefits

  • On-site role in El Segundo, California.
  • Regular full-time employees receive flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA and employer-matched HSA options, and supplemental insurance options.
  • $120/month wellness reimbursement, 12 weeks of parental leave, family-building and related benefits through Maven Clinic, and sponsored One Medical memberships.
  • Stock options and/or long-term cash awards, a 401(k) with a 6% immediately vested employer match, cell-phone reimbursement, and relocation support if needed.
  • Daily provided lunch, dinner twice weekly, company events, happy hours, mission-success celebrations, and complimentary EV charging.

Salary: $144k - $184k/yr

Varda Space Industries

Varda is building the infrastructure for a thriving orbital economy, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules. From new, life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optic cables, there is a world of products used to benefit life on Earth that can ...

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