Varda Space Industries
Spacecraft Ground Systems Software Engineer
About this role
Varda seeks a Spacecraft Ground Systems Software Engineer to develop and maintain critical ground segment software for spacecraft operations, including telemetry services, mission control interfaces, simulation tools, and deployment infrastructure. You'll work across the full stack of mission-critical systems supporting both lab testing and on-orbit operations.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and spacecraft commanding
- Design and deliver operator-grade mission control UIs and dashboards that reduce cognitive load during operations
- Build simulation tools and test automation frameworks for flight software, device emulators, and scenario-based testing
- Design and implement mission platform software including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks
- Create robust deployment patterns for lab, test range, and mission operations environments with safe rollout/rollback strategies
- Standardize tooling and self-service platforms for mission and ground software teams
What they're looking for
- Python development with strong language fundamentals
- Real-time data acquisition and low-latency messaging systems
- Systems design: concurrency, networking, performance, and reliability
- Spacecraft or safety-critical software development
- CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
- Mission control software and operator interfaces
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing and simulation frameworks
- Deployment strategies for restricted connectivity environments
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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 and how you ensured reliability and deterministic behavior
- Walk us through a time you designed a real-time telemetry or data distribution system—what were the key challenges and trade-offs?