Onboard Software Engineer - Hyperdrive

Loft Orbital Solutions
Colorado
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 155,000 - 225,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Ownership","Code review","Collaboration","Attention to quality","Process improvement"]

Design, implement, and refine onboard software with strong ownership, driving features from concept through delivery for spacecraft operations. You’ll review code, enforce development standards, and build unit tests while using Git and CI/CD tools to ship reliable releases. Contribute to onboard architecture, coordinate with downstream teams on deployments, and help support mission logic, fault detection, and recovery for the Hyperdrive platform.

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Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions
19 hours ago

Onboard Software Engineer - Hyperdrive

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Job Summary

Design, implement, and refine onboard software with strong ownership, driving features from concept through delivery for spacecraft operations. You’ll review code, enforce development standards, and build unit tests while using Git and CI/CD tools to ship reliable releases. Contribute to onboard architecture, coordinate with downstream teams on deployments, and help support mission logic, fault detection, and recovery for the Hyperdrive platform.
Location: Colorado
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, and refine onboard software with a high degree of ownership from concept through delivery.
  • •Review code and provide clear feedback, enforcing development processes, style guides, and design standards.
  • •Design and implement unit tests for self-authored and peer-authored code.
  • •Use version control and CI tools to create feature branches, merge approved changes, and coordinate releases.
  • •Contribute to onboard software architecture and participate in improving software development processes and standards.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 155,000 - 225,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of software engineering experience using C/C++ (C++11 or newer) and Python.
  • •Experience with version control (Git) and continuous integration tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins).
  • •Experience with build systems such as Make and CMake, plus library management and ABI/API version control.
  • •Working knowledge of distributed architecture and networking protocols (UDP, TCP, IP) and POSIX standards.
  • •Experience developing multi-threaded applications and designing unit tests (e.g., pytest, Googletest, Unity).
Experience:SpaceEmbedded systemsOn-orbit softwareDistributed systems
Skills:OwnershipCode reviewCollaborationAttention to qualityProcess improvement
Tech Stack:CC++11C++PythonGitGitLab CIJenkinsMakeCMakeABIAPI version controlDistributed architectureUDPTCPIPPOSIXMulti-threadedPytestGoogletestUnity

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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