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We enable the control and monitoring of many key spacecraft components, including optical payloads, radios, power controllers, and GNSSreceivers. Many of these components are reused across all satellite programs and form the building blocks of our onboard architecture.\nThe applications developed by our team handle the low-level communication protocol details, exposing the connected devices behind standardized APIs used across mission operations. The team is also responsible for the automation and orchestration that allows Loft to safely and reliably operate the equipment at scale.\nIn this role, you’ll help develop the software that connects diverse spacecraft hardware to the rest of the platform, and ultimately enables successful missions in orbit.\nAbout this role:\nDesign, implement, and refine software with a high degree of ownership, driving impactful features from concept through delivery while ensuring robustness and reliability.\nReview code, provide clear feedback, and enforce adherence to established development processes, style guides, and design standards to maintain consistency and quality across the codebase.\nDesign and implement unit and integration tests for both self-authored and peer-authored code.\nUtilize version control systems to create feature branches, push code, and merge approved code into production branches.\nContribute to the onboard software architecture through design proposals and collaborative review\nParticipate in the review and enhancement of software development processes and design standards.\nCoordinate with downstream teams on the distribution and adoption of the latest releases.\nIn addition to responsibilities within onboard software, you’ll have the opportunity to directly be involved in operating our on-orbit fleet of satellites.\nMust Haves:\n3+ years' software engineering experience, using programming languages including C/C++ (C++11 or newer) and Python.\nProficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows\nExperience with continuous integration tools (GitLab-CI, Jenkins, or similar).\nKnowledge of build systems (e.g., Make, CMake).\nUnderstanding of distributed architecture.\nFamiliarity with networking protocols (e.g., UDP, TCP, IP) and POSIXstandards.\nExperience in developing multi-threaded applications.\nPrevious team leader or manager role\nNice to Haves:\nFamiliarity with additional programming languages, such as Go or Rust.\nExperience with embedded Linux operation, including Yocto, device trees, systemd, and Linux on ARM platforms.\nProficiency with unit test frameworks (e.g., pytest, Googletest, Unity)\nExperience with middleware framework (gRPC, ZMQ/NATS, etc.)\nExperience with containerization technologies (Docker, K3S, systemd-nspawn)\nExperience with space systems and concepts\nSome of Our Awesome Benefits:\nEquity, we want you to have an active role in our success\nUp to 35 days of Paid Time Off (vacations & RTT ) and flexible working hours, we want you to be at your best\nHealth and life insurance, we care about your health\nLunch Vouchers, because let’s be honest, we love food! (we even have a slack channel about it #loft-gourmand)\nCross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse to learn from our differences\nCompany and team off-sites and many other events to work & celebrate together\nRelocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable","description_format":"text","description_chars":3777,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Life insurance","Relocation assistance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Satellite Manufacturing","Space Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-22T16:58:02Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":79,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.877,"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":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/loft-orbital-solutions-onboard-software-engineer-peripheral-services","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/loft-orbital-solutions-onboard-software-engineer-peripheral-services.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T09:57:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":16802,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4539},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4539"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Floft-orbital-solutions-onboard-software-engineer-peripheral-services"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Floft-orbital-solutions-onboard-software-engineer-peripheral-services"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Floft-orbital-solutions-onboard-software-engineer-peripheral-services"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/loft-orbital-solutions-onboard-software-engineer-peripheral-services\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Floft-orbital-solutions-onboard-software-engineer-peripheral-services"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1117338}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"loftorbital.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1117338},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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