Spacecraft Flight Software Engineer

Low Earth orbit is open for business. Varda is accelerating the development of commercial space infrastructure from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules.

From life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optics there is a world of products used on Earth today that can only be manufactured in space. Varda is accelerating innovation in the orbital economy by creating both the products and infrastructure needed so space can directly benefit life on Earth. Our mission is to expand the economic bounds of humankind.

Our team is uniquely suited to accomplishing this goal with leadership and staff comprised of veterans from SpaceX Blue Origin major pharmaceutical companies and Silicon Valley. Varda was founded in January 2021 by Will Bruey and Delian Asparouhov with significant backing from world class investors including Khosla Ventures Lux Capital Founders Fund Caffeinated Capital General Catalyst and Also Capital.

Varda is headquartered in El Segundo California where we have offices and a production facility where our vehicles equipment and materials are built integrated and tested. Varda also has offices in Washington DC and Huntsville AL.

Join Varda and work to create a bustling in-space ecosystem.

The Flight Software team is responsible for determining how our spacecraft behaves and operates in orbit and building reliable software to ensure it happens. The team is responsible for all phases of development starting from requirements capture through test and flight operational support.

• Develop reliable flight software that determine how the spacecraft satellite bus and reentry capsule operate throughout the entire mission.
• Write quality structured bare metal RTOS or Linux based software for embedded processors in C.
• Own all aspects of software development from design testing and integration.
• Scope projects including requirements capture and initial design trades given open-ended problems.
• Ensure system quality and performance through software test verification and validation (V&V) technique.
• Teamwork communicate and problem solve in a collaborative environment.

• Bachelors degree in computer science math physics engineering or equivalent technical experience in safety critical software.
• 3 years of experience in the development of spacecraft or similar safety critical software.
• Experience with development in C along with a strong understanding of the language concepts.

• End-to-end experience building and launching a spacecraft.
• Experience developing and testing real-time embedded systems.
• Experience with safety-critical software especially for aerospace applications.
• Experience with CCSDS telemetry and telecommand system.
• Experience with F or cFS framework.
• Experience with Python or Rust.
• Knowledge of basic analog and digital electronics.
• Familiarity with SPI I2C CAN EtherCAT.

• Salary range: $120000 - $160000.
• This role ison-sitein El Segundo CA.
• Leveling and base salary is determined by job-related skills education level experience level and job performance.
• Offer compensation also includes the ability to receive stock options under the Companys Equity Incentive Plan.

• Varda like all employers must ensure that its employees working in the United States are lawfully authorized to work in the U.S. Additionally our employees are exposed to and have access to certain export-controlled items. At present some of our technology to which employees have access requires a license to be exported to individuals other than U.S. Persons as defined in U.S. export regulations. Because our employees are provided access to export-controlled items our current policy is to only hire U.S. persons who are permitted to have access to our technology without an export license.

  US person means: U.S. citizen U.S. lawful permanent resident or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) (i.e. individual admitted to the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum in the U.S.)

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