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Senior Mission Software Engineer

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Senior Mission Software Engineer in USA new

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

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 CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, and observability.
  • 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/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 5 years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software.
  • Expertise in Python and strong understanding of language concepts.
  • Strong systems fundamentals in concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability.
  • Experience building real-time data acquisition, scaling, and distribution services with low-latency messaging and time-series or relational stores.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD, dependency and build systems, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Experience with logging, metrics, and tracing for end-to-end observability.
  • 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 testing and simulation tools, safety-critical requirements and certification artifacts, ground-system standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.

Benefits

  • Fully on-site role in El Segundo, California.
  • Flexible PTO and 12 paid holidays.
  • Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, with FSA and employer-matched HSA options.
  • Voluntary accident, hospital, critical illness, and pet insurance.
  • $120/month wellness reimbursement and sponsored One Medical memberships.
  • 12 weeks of parental leave plus family-building and parenting benefits.
  • Stock options and/or long-term cash awards; 401(k) with a 6% immediately vested employer match.
  • $20 per pay-period cell phone reimbursement and relocation support for new hires if needed.
  • Daily lunch, twice-weekly dinner, team events, happy hours, mission celebrations, and complimentary EV charging.

Salary: $169k - $216k/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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