Varda Space Industries
Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer
About this role
Varda seeks a Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer to develop and maintain ground segment software supporting spacecraft operations, including telemetry services, mission control interfaces, simulation tools, and deployment infrastructure. You'll work across lab, test, and operational environments, collaborating with flight software, avionics, and RF teams.
What you'll do
- Develop high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding with deterministic real-time behavior
- Create operator-grade mission control dashboards and UIs optimized for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations
- Build simulation frameworks and automated test tools for flight software, device emulators, and scenario-based validation
- Design and productionize mission platform software with standardized CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and self-service tooling
- Implement robust deployment patterns for lab, test, and mission networks with safe rollout/rollback and air-gapped connectivity strategies
- Collaborate with avionics, GNC, and operations teams to enable fast iteration and safe testing cycles
What they're looking for
- Python development with strong language fundamentals
- Spacecraft or safety-critical software development (3+ years)
- Real-time data acquisition, low-latency messaging, and time-series systems
- Systems fundamentals: concurrency, networking, performance, reliability
- CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
- Mission control software and operator UI design
- Simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing frameworks
- Deployment strategies for constrained 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
- Walk us through a critical real-time system you've built—how did you ensure deterministic behavior and handle edge cases?
- Describe your experience with safety-critical software development. What standards or processes did you follow, and how did that influence your design decisions?