Varda Space Industries
Mission Software Engineer
About this role
Varda seeks a Mission Software Engineer to develop and maintain critical ground segment software for spacecraft operations, including telemetry systems, mission control interfaces, and simulation tools. You'll work across the full stack from flight software integration to mission operations, building reliable services that support both testing and on-orbit activities.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and spacecraft commanding
- Create operator-grade mission control UIs and dashboards that minimize cognitive load during integration, testing, and on-orbit phases
- Build simulation and test automation tools to validate flight software, avionics, and guidance/navigation systems
- Design and implement the mission software platform including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and self-service tooling
- Establish deployment patterns and strategies for lab, test range, and mission network environments with safe rollout/rollback capabilities
What they're looking for
- Python development with strong language fundamentals
- Safety-critical software development (3+ years)
- Real-time data acquisition and low-latency messaging systems
- Systems design: concurrency, networking, performance, reliability
- Mission control interface and dashboard design
- CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
- Simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing frameworks
- Spacecraft or avionics software experience
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Varda Space Industries
Varda Space Industries builds commercial spacecraft and orbital manufacturing systems for missions in low Earth orbit, including reentry capsules and satellite buses. The company is hiring mission operations engineers, software engineers (ground segment, flight, and embedded), and manufacturing engineers to develop mission-critical systems, operational infrastructure, and scalable production capabilities.
- Website
- varda.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience developing safety-critical software for spacecraft or similar systems—what were the biggest reliability challenges?
- Walk us through how you'd design a real-time telemetry ingestion and distribution service that needs to handle deterministic latency requirements.