K2 Space
Senior Flight Software Engineer
$160K–$200K
Seattle, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 30, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Seattle, Washington, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering as an alternative to the listed bachelor's degree; no separate years of experience specified.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, math, or a STEM discipline, or 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.
About the job
Develop and verify mission-critical flight software and real-time control systems for large spacecraft and their subsystems.
What you'll do
- Design software architecture for real-time, fault-tolerant spacecraft control and develop subsystem control applications and state machines.
- Analyze data and investigate anomalies; support subsystem integration and testing, and build infrastructure for reliable software development and testing.
- Verify software using software- and hardware-in-the-loop simulators and support operation of the software on spacecraft.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, math, or a STEM discipline, or 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
- Development experience in Rust, C/C++, Python, VHDL, or SystemVerilog.
Nice to have
- Spacecraft flight software development experience.
- Experience with Linux systems programming and driver development; CI/CD; hard real-time embedded systems; or software verification and testing.
Pay
$160,000 - $200,000 USD base salary
Tools
Rust, C++, C, Python, VHDL, SystemVerilog, Linux
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