Varda Space Industries
Space Mission Software Engineer II
About this role
Varda seeks a Mission Software Engineer II to develop and maintain ground segment software for spacecraft operations, including telemetry services, mission control interfaces, simulation tools, and deployment infrastructure. You'll work across lab, test, and mission environments, collaborating with flight software, avionics, and operations teams to enable reliable in-orbit pharmaceutical processing missions.
What you'll do
- Develop high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and spacecraft commanding
- Design operator-grade mission control UIs and dashboards to optimize operations workflows
- Build simulation tools and test automation frameworks for flight software, device emulators, and scenario-based testing
- Design and implement mission platform infrastructure including CI/CD pipelines, service templates, and infrastructure-as-code
- Create robust deployment patterns and strategies for lab, test stand, and mission network environments
- Standardize observability, test harnesses, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks as self-service tooling
What they're looking for
- Python development and language fundamentals
- Ground segment software architecture and real-time systems
- Spacecraft operations and mission control systems
- Safety-critical software development
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Simulation and test automation frameworks
- Infrastructure-as-code and observability tools
- API design and distributed systems
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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 and how you ensured reliability
- Walk us through your approach to designing a ground segment service that must handle both real-time commanding and post-flight telemetry analysis