Varda Space Industries
Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer II
About this role
Varda seeks a Mission Software Engineer II to build and maintain critical ground segment software for spacecraft operations, including telemetry services, mission control interfaces, and simulation tools. You'll develop a robust platform enabling flight software teams and mission operators to safely integrate, test, and command vehicles across lab, test range, and orbital environments.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding
- Design operator-grade mission control UIs and dashboards optimized for integration, testing, and on-orbit operations
- Build simulation tools, device emulators, and automated test frameworks for avionics and GNC teams
- Create and productionize the mission software platform including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling
- Implement robust deployment strategies for lab, test range, and mission networks with safe rollout/rollback capabilities
- Standardize service templates and test harnesses as self-service tooling for mission and ground software teams
What they're looking for
- Python development with deep language understanding
- Safety-critical software design and architecture
- Real-time systems and deterministic behavior
- CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure-as-code implementation
- Mission control software and telemetry systems
- Hardware-in-the-loop and simulation framework development
- Deployment and rollout strategies in constrained environments
- Observability and monitoring 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—what standards or processes did you follow and why were they important?
- Walk us through a time you designed a ground segment or mission control system; what were the key reliability requirements and how did you meet them?