Principal Flight Software Engineer
Lead Flight Software Engineer
Denver – Hybrid
We’re recruiting a Lead Flight Software Engineer for a space company developing and operating spacecraft across commercial, government and science missions. You’ll combine hands-on C++ development with technical leadership, mentoring a team of five engineers and improving how flight software is built and tested.
What you’ll do
- Develop and architect application-level flight software across spacecraft subsystems.
- Guide engineers on modern C++ design and implementation.
- Improve testing practices, processes and technical direction.
- Support missions through development, launch and on-orbit operations.
The role is expected to be roughly 50% hands-on engineering and 50% team development, with the balance changing as projects require.
What you’ll bring
- Experience developing flight software for spacecraft, beyond low-level firmware alone.
- Strong modern C++ skills and experience with concurrent or multithreaded systems.
- Experience working across multiple spacecraft subsystems.
- The ability to mentor engineers and work effectively with changing priorities.
Full lifecycle flight-software experience is valuable. Years of experience are not a fixed threshold the breadth and impact of your work matter more.
If you are interested please apply ASAP.