Command & Telemetry Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain software for ingesting, processing, and routing telemetry, tracking, and command data.
• Implement and validate CCSDS protocols, including space packets, transfer frames, synchronization, and data encapsulation.
• Develop high-performance data pipelines connecting software-defined radios, ground-station infrastructure, and customer endpoints.
• Build tooling for packet parsing, frame validation, buffering, recording, replay, monitoring, and debugging.
• Translate customer mission requirements into configurable data-handling workflows and interfaces.
• Collaborate with DSP and FPGA engineers to define and validate interfaces between physical-layer processing and higher-level communications software.
• Test communications workflows using simulated, hardware-in-the-loop, and live satellite data.
• Own software through development, deployment, operational validation, and ongoing mission support.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 2–5+ years of relevant experience, or master's degree with 1–4 years of experience, in computer science, electrical engineering, telecommunications, or a related field.
• Strong programming skills in a systems-oriented language such as Rust, C++, or Go.
• Experience developing software for networking, telecommunications, real-time data processing, or distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of network protocols, binary data formats, serialization, buffering, and asynchronous data processing.
• Experience building and debugging software across system boundaries, including hardware, networks, and external interfaces.
• Demonstrated ownership of a production software system from initial design through deployment and operational use.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience implementing or working with CCSDS standards, including Space Packet Protocol, TM, TC, or AOS transfer frames.
• Familiarity with satellite telemetry and command systems, ground stations, or mission operations.
• Experience with CCSDS File Delivery Protocol, Space Link Extension services, or related mission-data interfaces.
• Experience building high-throughput, low-latency, or fault-tolerant data pipelines.
• Familiarity with TCP, UDP, multicast, gRPC, WebSockets, or message-oriented architectures.
• Experience integrating software with SDRs, modems, FPGA-based systems, or other communications hardware.
• Experience with packet capture, protocol analysis, data replay, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or communications-system simulation.

Compensation and Benefits

• U.S. government space technology export regulations may require candidates to be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals, or eligible to obtain required authorizations.