# Senior Ground Software Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Ground Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience as a satellite operator, offering unique insights into the systems they will be building and integrating. Your work will have a direct impact on the success of the company. You will work closely with the engineering team, program management to ensure the successful build and launch of our satellite. Element will be the largest, most powerful rideshare satellite in LEO. We’re launching eight of them in the next four years, starting with our first launch this year. Together, our small team will design, build, and iterate to reduce mass and cost while increasing performance, reliability, and manufacturability of a new generation of satellites. Let’s build! JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Execute the design, development, and deployment of ground software systems for a new satellite system, including command and control, telemetry, telemetry database, and ground station software. Rapidly execute to produce a simple, reliable ground system. Implement real-time data acquisition, processing, and visualization systems for satellite telemetry. Integrate and test gro

- **Id**: 1494580
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cesiumastro-senior-ground-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Westminster, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-29T18:05:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T05:07:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3712
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Embedded & Electronics Design, Satellite Communications, RF & Wireless Hardware

## Company

- **Id**: 5315
- **Name**: CesiumAstro
- **Domain**: cesiumastro.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cesiumastro>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 38
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.605
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 47
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 133000
- **Max**: 161000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 161000

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CCSDS** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-30T01:46:32Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 35
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.578
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 47
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 161000
- **Is top pay**: no

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