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LeoLabs is building a global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform for space domain awareness, tracking over 25,000 objects in low Earth orbit. The company provides radar-powered intelligence to protect commercial and government space assets, monitor adversarial activity, and ensure safe orbital operations.
As a Senior Radar Software Engineer, you will design, develop, test, and maintain software systems supporting advanced radar operations and space domain awareness missions. You'll work across a multidisciplinary team including radar systems engineers, signal processing specialists, data scientists, and software developers to deliver high-performance radar capabilities for mission-critical customers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and develop software for radar data collection, processing, analysis, and operational deployment
- Build interfaces and services for sensor operations, telemetry, data management, and mission execution
- Create scalable, reliable solutions for radar control, monitoring, automation, and performance optimization
- Collaborate with radar systems, signal processing, and infrastructure teams on system integration
- Participate in architecture development, technical design reviews, and system verification/validation
- Support field testing, troubleshoot operational issues, and conduct root-cause analysis
- Contribute to code reviews, best practices documentation, and technical standards
- Support customer demonstrations and operational readiness activities
Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field; 7+ years professional software engineering experience; strong programming in Python, C++, or similar languages; experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data-intensive applications; Linux development environment proficiency; familiarity with software testing, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps; U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain/maintain a U.S. Personnel Security Clearance.
Preferred: Experience with radar systems, RF systems, signal processing, or sensor data processing; DoD, Intelligence Community, or Space Force program support; bare-metal systems work; constrained compute environments; large-scale telemetry or real-time data processing systems; active U.S. Secret or Top Secret clearance; classified program experience.
