Spacecraft Ground Software Engineer

ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE

As an end-to-end space transportation company, Firefly Aerospace is on a mission to enable our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the surface of the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

SUMMARY

As a GSW Engineer at Firefly Spacecraft, you’ll design and develop high-performance, intuitive software that enables real-time testing and operation of space vehicles. Your work will directly support our Blue Ghost lander missions to the moon. You’ll collaborate in small, focused teams throughout the entire development process, contributing to testing, simulations, and live operations. Join us and help shape the future of lunar exploration.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop, and test user interfaces for Firefly’s space vehicles.
• Lead full-cycle development, from ground testing to lunar surface operations.
• Conduct simulations to validate software performance and mission readiness.
• Create modern, efficient command and control systems for lunar landers.
• Work closely with payload and subsystem teams to ensure mission control systems support successful operations.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Experience developing and debugging web-based charts, graphs, and dashboards
• Experience integrating live time-series data into web-based user interfaces
• Experience using time-series databases
• Experience using Python and JavaScript/Typescript
• Experience working with Linux operating systems
• Familiarity with source code configuration management and version control concepts
• Outstanding energy, initiative, and the ability to work well with other team members
• Effective oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with multiple functional groups across multiple sites

Desired

• Experience using InfluxDB
• Experience using Grafana and setting up Grafana dashboards
• Experience using PostgreSQL, or SQL in general
• Experience using Go
• Experience using web frameworks, especially React or Django.
• Experience with F Prime or similar embedded system development framework
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences, Computer Engineering, or STEM field
• Experience using the Atlassian Tool Suite Confluence, JIRA, and Bitbucket

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.