Onboard Software Engineer - Hyperdrive

Loft Orbital Solutions
France
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Ownership","Code review","Collaboration","Robustness","Reliability"]

Own onboard software capabilities for spacecraft, helping deliver robust, reliable features across the Hyperdrive platform. You’ll implement and refine onboard services, review code to enforce development standards, build and maintain unit tests, and use version control and CI to ship changes safely. Collaborate with onboard teams and contribute to software architecture, supporting mission logic from interactions and housekeeping to events and fault detection.

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Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions
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Onboard Software Engineer - Hyperdrive

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Job Summary

Own onboard software capabilities for spacecraft, helping deliver robust, reliable features across the Hyperdrive platform. You’ll implement and refine onboard services, review code to enforce development standards, build and maintain unit tests, and use version control and CI to ship changes safely. Collaborate with onboard teams and contribute to software architecture, supporting mission logic from interactions and housekeeping to events and fault detection.
Location: France
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, and refine onboard software with strong ownership, driving features from concept through delivery while ensuring robustness and reliability.
  • •Review code and enforce adherence to established development processes, style guides, and design standards to maintain consistency across the codebase.
  • •Design and implement unit tests for both self-authored and peer-authored code.
  • •Use version control to create feature branches, push code, and merge approved changes into production branches.
  • •Contribute to onboard software architecture through design proposals and coordinate with downstream teams on releases and adoption of latest updates.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Paid LeaveHealth InsuranceMeal AllowanceRelocation

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of software engineering experience using C/C++ (C++11 or newer) and Python.
  • •Experience with version control (e.g., Git) and continuous integration tools (e.g., GitLab-CI, Jenkins).
  • •Experience with build systems (e.g., Make, CMake) and library management/ABI & API version control.
  • •Understanding of distributed architecture and familiarity with networking protocols (UDP, TCP, IP) and POSIX standards.
  • •Experience developing multi-threaded applications and embedded Linux (e.g., Yocto, device trees, systemd, Linux on ARM), plus unit testing (e.g., pytest, Googletest, Unity).
Experience:5+ years
Skills:OwnershipCode reviewCollaborationRobustnessReliability
Tech Stack:C/C++C++11PythonGitGitLab-CIJenkinsMakeCMakeYoctoDevice treesSystemdLinux on ARMUDPTCPIPPOSIXGoRustPytestGoogletest

Company Brief

Loft Orbital Solutions
Provides satellite rideshare and mission integration services, offering turnkey spacecraft platforms, payload hosting, and mission operations to accelerate deployment of space-based payloads for commercial and government customers.
Industry: Space Technology
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Long Beach, United States
Founded: 2017
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