Flight Software Engineer

Seeking a Flight Software Engineer. As part of our early engineering team, your scope of work will focus on developing and integrating the flight software stack end-to-end — spanning ground-side mission operations tools, and vehicle-side embedded software. You’ll work closely with avionics, GNC, and systems engineers to help bring our vehicle from concept to flight.

Key Responsibilities:

oBuild mission operations software — the ground tools that plan, execute, and monitor missions in real time.

oDevelop and integrate flight software for the vehicle — from architecture and implementation to test and flight readiness.

oDevelop ground software services for telemetry, commanding, and visualization.

oWrite embedded software for flight computers, sensors, and actuators.

oCollaborate with avionics, propulsion, and GNC teams to define software interfaces and data models.

oContribute to flight software CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and simulation environments.

oSupport software-in-the-loop testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, environmental testing, and flight campaigns.

Skills

flight software, embedded software, avionics, mission operations, ground software, telemetry, command system, rover, satellite, launch, launch vehicle

Top Skills Details

flight software,embedded software,avionics,mission operations,ground software,telemetry,commandsystem,rover,satellite,launch.

This is a Permanent position based out of Torrance, CA.

The pay range for this position is $130000.00 - $240000.00/yr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Healthcare, dental, vision, HSA, 401k, etc.

This is a fully onsite position in Torrance,CA.

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 11, 2026.

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