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Varda Space Industries is building commercial space infrastructure, including in-orbit pharmaceutical processing systems and reentry capsules. The Mission Software team owns the critical ground segment software platform that enables spacecraft operations, bridging telemetry, commanding, data acquisition, mission control, and test automation.
In this role, you will develop and maintain high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding. You'll design operator-grade mission control interfaces and dashboards that optimize operations time and reduce cognitive load during integration, test, and on-orbit phases.
You'll build simulation and test automation tools that enable flight-software simulations, device emulators, and scenario-based testing—allowing avionics, guidance/navigation/control, and operations teams to iterate safely and quickly. A key responsibility is building the mission platform itself: designing and productionizing software infrastructure including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, simulation and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks, test harnesses, and observability tooling delivered as self-service systems.
You'll also create robust deployment patterns across lab benches, test stands, and mission networks, implementing safe rollout/rollback strategies and handling air-gapped or limited-connectivity deployment scenarios.
The team works at the intersection of flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission operations. You'll collaborate directly with these domains and contribute to a platform used across lab, test range, and live mission operations environments.
