# Onboard Software Engineer - Hyperdrive

Wanna join the adventure? Loft’s Onboard Software group provides the on-orbit software that powers our core products. This is responsible for monitoring and control of major space program elements, including: Flight Products computational environments (including physical and virtual processors); Interfaces with external equipment (imagers, RF, ISL); and Interfaces with the spacecraft bus. Hyperdrive is the common platform powering every onboard service across our spacecraft. The team builds the core capabilities other onboard services need to run mission logic-from interactions and housekeeping to events, automated fault detection and recovery, and lifecycle management. By making complex spacecraft software consistent, observable, and resilient, Hyperdrive helps teams move faster while keeping missions safe in orbit. About this role: Design, implement, and refine software with a high degree of ownership, driving impactful features from concept through delivery while ensuring robustness and reliability. Review code, provide clear feedback, and enforce adherence to established development processes, style guides, and design standards to maintain consistency and quality across the

- **Id**: 1114657
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/loft-orbital-solutions-onboard-software-engineer-hyperdrive-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T14:19:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T08:01:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 49
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3601
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible time off, Parental leave, Relocation assistance, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Satellite Manufacturing, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 4539
- **Name**: Loft Orbital
- **Domain**: loftorbital.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/loft-orbital-solutions>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.375
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 85
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 155000
- **Max**: 225000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 225000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CMake** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **gRPC** — Optional: yes
- **K3s** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **NATS** — Optional: yes
- **Pytest** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 49

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T14:34:05Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 79
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.883
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 49
- **Expected fill days**: 85
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 225000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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