Senior Mission Software Engineer

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Varda Space Industries
Full time
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USA
10/25/2026
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El Segundo, CA

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain high-reliability services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding.
Build operator-grade mission-control interfaces 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 services, CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling.
Deploy software across lab benches, test stands, and mission networks using safe rollout, rollback, and limited-connectivity strategies.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, 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 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, tracing, Docker, Kubernetes, release management, phased rollouts, and controlled networks.
Preferred qualifications include proficiency in C++, Ansible, or NiceGUI; experience with DAQ, closed-loop control, flight-software testing and simulation, safety-critical certification artifacts, ground-system standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.

Benefits

Salary range is $169,067-$216,031 per year, with eligibility for stock options and/or long-term cash awards.
This is an on-site role in El Segundo, California.
Employees must meet Varda's U.S.-person requirement for access to export-controlled technology.

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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