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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, operating at the intersection of telemetry, commanding, data acquisition, mission control interfaces, and test automation.
In this role, you will own high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding, ensuring deterministic behavior for real-time operations and post-flight analysis. You'll deliver operator-grade UIs and dashboards that optimize operations time and reduce cognitive load across integration, test, and on-orbit phases.
You will build tools for flight-software simulations, device emulators, and scenario-based automated tests, enabling fast iteration for avionics and operations teams. A key responsibility is designing and implementing the mission platform itself—standardizing CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, service templates, infrastructure-as-code, simulation and hardware-in-the-loop frameworks, test harnesses, and observability as self-service tooling for mission and ground software teams.
You'll also create robust deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks, implementing safe rollout/rollback strategies and air-gapped deployment approaches for limited-connectivity environments.
Varda was founded in 2021 by veterans from SpaceX and Blue Origin, backed by Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, and Founders Fund. The company is headquartered in El Segundo with offices in Washington, DC and Huntsville, AL.
