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Ground Software Engineer

Terran Orbital Corporation

Terran Orbital Corporation

Software Engineering
Irvine, CA, USA
Posted on Sep 11, 2024

Be more than just an employee number! Join Terran Orbital, the leader in innovation, manufacturing, and operations in the small satellite industry. We are a pioneer in the miniaturization of space technologies and the delivery of responsive space solutions. We are a unique, fast-growing, and trusted team focused on quickly and economically designing, building, launching, and operating state-of-the-art satellites for advanced mission constellations.

Terran Orbital is seeking a motivated Ground Software Engineer to contribute to the development of Ground Software (GSW) at our Irvine, CA, location. Terran Orbital is a leading worldwide provider of nanosatellite and microsatellite vehicles, services, and solutions to Commercial and Government customers. The team is responsible for building and maintaining software applications and tools that enable end-to-end operations of our spacecraft as well as the entire ground segment. As a Software Engineer, the candidate will develop both back- and front-end applications that manage our ground segment, store, and visualize spacecraft telemetry, and automate our mission control center.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

  • Design and, implement, test the ground software framework for Terran Orbital's next generation of space vehicles with guidance from the team
  • Core focus: Develop back-end data processing applications (Python) and web servers (NodeJS) and the design of interfaces and data flow between ground segment applications
  • Participate in software requirements generation, design, implementation, and testing discussions