Radar Software Engineer

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Radar Software Engineer developing and maintaining software for radar systems at LeoLabs. Focused on mission-critical challenges in aerospace and national security with advanced technology.

Responsibilities:

  • Your work directly impacts mission-critical radar systems that support national security, commercial space operations, and global space safety by enabling precise detection, tracking, and analysis of objects in space.
  • Daily work focuses on software development in the following key areas:
  • Software Development & System Reliability
  • Build out tests and observability tooling (logs, metrics, alerts)
  • Improve unit test speed and parallelization
  • Simplify and document local unit test execution for all team members
  • Develop and integrate system/integration tests into the automated testing pipeline
  • Rewrite and harden the radar deployment system for robustness, speed, and reliability
  • Maintain CI pipelines and GitHub Actions workflows for the radar software stack
  • Build and maintain a Radar team operational dashboard
  • Develop new data plotting and file writing utilities for data output
  • Benchmark and analyze Linux system tuning for real-time radar applications
  • Improve configuration management system

Requirements:

  • Strong proficiency in Python for services, tooling, and automation
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Solid understanding of software testing practices
  • Experience with REST API design and implementation
  • Ability to work effectively across software, infrastructure, and operations teams
  • S. Citizenship or permanent resident
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, plus 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
  • Experience with database systems (SQL and/or NoSQL), query writing, and schema design
  • Demonstrated experience improving developer experience: test infrastructure, local dev tooling, or deployment automation

Benefits:

  • Global workforce: flexible remote/hybrid opportunities
  • Work on complex, meaningful missions with real-world impact
  • Unlimited paid time off for most roles
  • Competitive salary and equity packages
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Access to the forefront of commercial space operations and defense innovation