Varda Space Industries
Spacecraft Software Engineer, Ground Systems
About this role
Varda seeks a Spacecraft Software Engineer to develop ground segment software and mission control platforms that enable spacecraft operations. You'll own telemetry services, build operator interfaces, create simulation and test automation tools, and establish deployment infrastructure across lab, test, and mission environments.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding
- Design operator-grade UIs and dashboards for mission control across integration, test, and on-orbit phases
- Build simulation and test automation tools for flight software, device emulators, and scenario-based testing
- Design and productionize mission platform software including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tooling
- Create robust deployment patterns for lab, test range, and mission operations with safe rollout/rollback strategies
- Collaborate with flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission operations teams
What they're looking for
- Python development with strong language fundamentals
- Systems programming: concurrency, networking, performance, reliability
- Real-time data acquisition and low-latency messaging systems
- Spacecraft or safety-critical software development
- CI/CD pipeline design and infrastructure-as-code
- Mission control interface and dashboard development
- Simulation and hardware-in-the-loop 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
- Describe your experience developing software for safety-critical systems and the testing/validation approaches you used.
- Walk us through a time you designed a low-latency, high-reliability data acquisition or messaging system—what were the challenges?