Star Catcher Industries, Inc., located in
Jacksonville, Florida, has an opportunity for a
Software Engineer - Ground & Mission Systems to support the development of space-to-space power beaming spacecraft and the Star Catcher Network, its orbital power grid.
Key Responsibilities- Build and maintain ground segment tools, dashboards, and test infrastructure supporting hardware bring-up and build tracking.
- Work closely with cross-functional members of the engineering organization to develop and evaluate interfaces between ground tooling, hardware, and flight software.
- Develop APIs, services, and data pipelines connecting ground systems, test benches, and engineering tools under established architecture.
- Support development of telemetry ingestion, processing, and visualization tooling, including decommutation and time-series storage of spacecraft health and status data.
- Support command planning and validation tooling under established architecture and safety constraints.
- Support integration and test campaigns with automated test and data-processing tooling, including hardware-in-the-loop test benches.
- Participate in design and architecture reviews across the software development lifecycle.
- Document software architecture, APIs, and operational procedures.
- Build and maintain unit/integration tests for CI/CD.
Basic Qualifications- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience: 5+ years of professional experience building production software systems (services, APIs, data pipelines, or engineering tooling).
- Proficiency in one or more of Python, C++, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience with databases, (especially TSDB) and REST/gRPC APIs.
- Comfortable working across the stack, from backend services to internal tooling and UIs.
Technical Expertise- Working knowledge of containerization (e.g., Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with message queues or pub/sub systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ) for real-time data handling.
- Exposure to telemetry/command data formats and processing (e.g., CCSDS, XTCE, or similar).
- Working knowledge of Git and collaborative software development workflows.
Desired Skills- Experience with mission operations, ground segment, or telemetry/command systems.
- Experience integrating software with hardware test benches or lab equipment.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with spacecraft or other aerospace systems.
- DevSecOps and test automation experience using Python or similar languages.
- Familiarity with release engineering and configuration/change management practices.
- Familiarity with network storage, Gigabit Ethernet, or InfiniBand.
- Working knowledge of authentication schemes (e.g., RADIUS, LDAP) for access-controlled ground tooling.
Help us deploy and scale space infrastructure that will drive our utilization of space forward! We offer a highly competitive benefits package including access to comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, and paid parental leave, in addition to other benefits. 
