Varda Space Industries
Spacecraft Mission Software Engineer II
About this role
Varda seeks a Mission Software Engineer II to develop and maintain critical ground segment software for spacecraft operations, including telemetry systems, mission control interfaces, and deployment infrastructure. You'll work across flight software, avionics, and RF systems to enable reliable operations from lab testing through on-orbit missions.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding
- Design operator-grade mission control dashboards and UIs optimized for integration, test, and on-orbit phases
- Build simulation tools and test automation frameworks for flight software, device emulators, and scenario-based testing
- Design and productionize mission platform infrastructure including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and observability tooling
- Implement robust deployment patterns and strategies for lab, test range, and mission operations environments
- Standardize service templates, infrastructure-as-code, and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks as self-service tooling
What they're looking for
- Python development and language fundamentals
- Spacecraft or safety-critical software development
- Real-time systems and deterministic behavior design
- CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure-as-code
- Telemetry systems and command distribution architecture
- Mission control software and UI development
- Simulation and test automation frameworks
- Deployment strategies for air-gapped and limited-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've ensured reliability in production systems
- Walk us through how you've designed a telemetry or data distribution system to handle real-time operational constraints