# Telecommunications Software Engineer

**Company:** [Northwood Space](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/northwood-space)
**Location:** Los Angeles, CA, California
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Rust, C++, Go, ccsds, tcp, udp, gRPC, WebSockets, software-defined radios, fpga, Distributed Systems, real-time data processing, binary data formats, serialization, multicast
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Develops production software for ingesting, processing, and routing satellite telemetry, tracking, and command data across ground-station networks. Requires systems programming experience, networking or real-time data processing expertise, and a bachelor's degree or relevant master's-level background.

## Job Description

## 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.

## Additional Information
- U.S. government space technology export regulations, including ITAR, may require applicants to be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals, or eligible to obtain required authorizations.

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