# Software Engineer – General (new grad / early career)
**Company:** [Northwood Space](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/northwood-space)
**Location:** Los Angeles, CA, California
**Salary:** $120K-$140K
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** Rust, Go, Haskell, C++, Distributed Systems, Embedded Systems, Data Pipelines, Kubernetes, APIs, Databases
**Posted:** 2026-04-24
> Early-career Software Engineer designing control systems for ground stations, optimizing data pipelines, building distributed cloud orchestration, APIs, monitoring, and production testing software for global space communications network. Requires 0-2 years experience and bachelor's in CS or related.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Design and implement control systems for ground station hardware, interacting with embedded systems and RF modems.
- Architect and optimize data pipelines for high-bandwidth data movement and low-latency distribution (SD-WAN capabilities).
- Lead design and architecture of distributed systems for global ground network orchestration across cloud and on-premises.
- Develop stack design, inter-service communication protocols, robust APIs, intuitive front-ends, and scalable data backends with ETL pipelines.
- Create monitoring, alerting systems, global telemetry for predictive diagnostics, and real-time customer updates.
- Build secure infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines for global deployments.
- Develop production line software, automate testing procedures, collaborate with mechanical/RF/EE/FPGA engineers.
- Create simulations for satellite/network design, testing, and global antenna network orchestration.

## Requirements
**Basic Qualifications:**
- 0-2 years of professional software development experience (internships, projects, personal projects count).
- Completed bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or related major (soft requirement).

**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Proficiency in **Rust**, **Golang**, **Haskell**, **C/C++** (or other languages for distributed systems/high-performance computing).
- Strong problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
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