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Staff Software Engineer, Flight Software

Eleven Recruiting


Job Location:

Long Beach, NY - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 194000 - 249000
Posted: 8 September 2026 (13 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 6 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Eleven Recruiting is seeking aStaff Software Engineer Flight Software for one of our largest aerospace manufacturing clients located in Long Beach CA.

Aerospace experience isnt required. We value driven engineers with strong computer science fundamental who collaborate well to solve meaningful problems.

As a Staff Flight Software Engineer you will be a technical leader within the team with a high level of autonomy tackling core flight software products that directly impact the designated program and be responsible for setting standards and best practices for the team along with mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities:

  • Architect and deliver core flight software with a strong focus on meeting system and performance requirements such as latency allowed jitter and control frequency.
  • Work closely with GNC engineers to integrate complex algorithms for vehicle ascent and re-entry descent and landing.
  • Work closely with Embedded Software Engineers and Avionics to integrate vehicle sensor data such as GPS IMU Radar and to control vehicle equipment such as valves thrust vector controls and landing grid fins.
  • Develop telemetry system that prioritizes filters stores and forwards and encodes/decodes telemetry to RF format and routes that data through ground stations and to data centers.
  • Support the development and integration of testing infrastructure such as HITL (Hardware-In-The-Loop) and HOOTL (Hardware-Out-Of-The-Loop) and physics and fluid sims.
  • Focus on maximizing the teams velocity by defining processes best practices integrating modern tools and technologies and mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications:

  • An undergraduate or graduate degree in a relevant engineering discipline (Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science Aerospace Engineering) and 7 years of production development experience.
  • Deep professional experience and technical expertise delivering production-level and real time embedded software.
  • Expert in Rust C and/or other system languages.
  • Expert in algorithms and data structures.
  • Expert in Operating System concepts such as memory management CPU shielding scheduling etc.
  • Experience with software development processes including: source control bug tracking and CI/CD.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with developing fault and failure tolerant system and knowledge of voting and internal state synchronization.
  • Experience with systems-level programming like synchronization primitives memory management etc.
  • Experience with networking protocols (UDP vs TCP) OSI layers. switching and routing.
  • Experience with developing software to a safety standard and achieving formal certification with a governing body (e.g. NASA FAA FDA etc.).

Required Experience:

Staff IC