Senior Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer

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Varda Space Industries
Full time
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USA
11/06/2026
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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 mission-platform tooling including service templates, artifact management, infrastructure-as-code, test harnesses, observability, and deployment systems.
Implement safe rollout and rollback patterns for lab benches, test stands, mission networks, and air-gapped or limited-connectivity environments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software.
5+ 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 using 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 operational readiness for controlled networks.
Preferred proficiency in C++, Ansible, and/or NiceGUI.
Preferred experience with DAQ, closed-loop control, flight-software-integrated CI/testing/simulation/data tools, safety-critical requirements and certification artifacts, ground systems standards, mission-network security, and mission-grade UIs.

Benefits

On-site work in El Segundo, California.
Eligible for incentives in the form of stock options and/or long-term cash awards.

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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