Mission Software Engineer II

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Mission Software Engineer II in USA

Varda Space Industries
Full time
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USA
09/13/2026
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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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