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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 critical ground segment software that enables spacecraft operations, operating at the intersection of telemetry, commanding, data acquisition, mission control interfaces, and simulation.
In this role, you will own high-reliability ground segment services for telemetry ingestion, scaling, distribution, and commanding. You'll develop operator-grade mission control UIs and dashboards that optimize operations time and reduce cognitive load across integration, test, and on-orbit phases. You'll build simulation and test automation tools to run flight-software simulations, device emulators, and scenario-based tests, enabling fast iteration for avionics and operations teams.
You'll also design and implement 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. You'll create robust deployment patterns for lab benches, test stands, and mission networks, implementing safe rollout/rollback strategies and air-gapped deployment approaches.
You'll work hands-on with flight software, avionics, RF/ground systems, and mission ops teams. Varda is headquartered in El Segundo with additional offices in Washington, DC and Huntsville, AL. The company was founded in 2021 by veterans from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and major pharma companies, backed by top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, and Founders Fund.
