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Salary: USD 169,000 - 216,000 / annual
Varda Space Industries is accelerating commercial space infrastructure development, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable reentry capsules. The company designs, builds, and operates W-Series vehicles in-house, including pharmaceutical processing payloads, capsules, C-PICA heat shields, and satellite buses.
As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer on the Flight Software team, you will be responsible for determining how spacecraft behave and operate in orbit, developing reliable firmware that controls the spacecraft, satellite bus, and reentry capsule through entire missions. You will own all aspects of software development from design through testing and integration, and provide flight operational support.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop reliable firmware for spacecraft, satellite bus, and reentry capsule operations
- Own complete software development lifecycle: design, testing, and integration
- Scope projects including requirements capture and initial design trades for open-ended problems
- Write quality structured bare metal, RTOS, or Linux-based software for embedded processors in C++
- Build highly reliable and available software systems
- Ensure system quality and performance through software test, verification, and validation (V&V) techniques
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, engineering, or equivalent technical experience in safety-critical software
- 5+ years of experience developing spacecraft or similar safety-critical software
- Experience developing and testing real-time embedded hardware/software systems
- Strong C++ development experience with deep language understanding
Preferred qualifications include aerospace safety-critical software experience, proficiency in Python or Rust, and strong understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, data structures, and networking.
Varda is headquartered in El Segundo, California with offices in Washington, DC and Huntsville, AL. The company was founded in 2021 by Will Bruey and Delian Asparouhov with backing from top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and General Catalyst.
