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.