Job DescriptionJob DescriptionSalary: $190,000-$240,000
Who we are:
EOI Space is developing and deploying a network of satellites in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) to provide ultra-high-resolution Earth imagery. We aim to delivertimelyand actionable data for commercial and defense applications.
We are on our way to achieving many industryfirsts. This demands an ambitious team that thrives on challenges, takes ownership, and collaborates deeply. EOI Space is looking foraPrincipal VehicleSoftware Engineer. In this hands-on technical leader role, you will have the opportunity to drive the end-to-end vehicle software solution, contributing to the payload processor subsystem, the bus flight software, and firmware components of each.These pillars support all aspects of our mission: a safe and healthy spacecraft, capable of collecting, onboard processing, downlink of exquisite imagery, andmaintaininga stable VLEO orbit for years.
What you will do:
- Provide technical leadership to a small team
- Coordinate, code, and leadimplementation ofcluster management and workload coordinationsystemsand tools to manage the HPCcluster in the payload system
- Implement and test highly optimized GPU-aware containerized image processing workloads on the cluster
- Contribute to and integrate withcFS-based bus flight software
- Guide and coordinate firmware development work to ensure that hardware and firmware designs mesh together to implementrequiredsystem functions
- Collaborate with the Principal Ground Software Engineer and vehicle and ground System Engineers to develop complete, holistic solutions to meet mission requirements
- Work hand in hand with Security, Export Compliance, and DevOps/Platform engineering to ensure we can deploy andmaintaintest, qualification, and flightlevel updates
- Operate in a lean start-up environment,maintaininga laser focus on the balance between what we need today and the things we are excited to add and enhance tomorrow
Responsibilities:
- Championour development team principles:
- Clear and explicit communication, withinand betweenthe teams across the company
- Develop iteratively, integrate early and often, and coordinate functional cross-team demos of the iterative releases
- End-to-end observable and traceable systems
- Aggressively, but with discipline and structure,leverageagentic tools (Claude code) to accelerate design, implementation, test, and workflow activities
- Plan, define, prioritize, and trackdesign and development activitiesto meet milestones and support inter-team dependencies
- Work with other team leads to make sure basic steel thread system capabilities areestablishedearly and continuously refined and matured
- Develop and deployboth image processing workload and cluster orchestrationsoftware tobench, rack, and flight versions of the payload processing system
- Supportintegration of the Payload subsystem with bus Flight Software,WidebandRF communications systems, and ground and space-based image processing pipelines
- Support firmware development efforts including bare-metal microcontrollers, FPGAs,Yoctodevice trees, and bootloaders
- Support testing and qualification campaigns as well as on-orbit updates
- Optimizefor space flight byselectingand applyinglightweight but modern OSS frameworks and tools, applied in a bandwidth-conscious way to support on-orbit updatesto any level of the system (BSP,OS, andapplications)
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree inComputerScience,SoftwareEngineering,AerospaceEngineering,or a related technical field
- High competency with both scripted and compiled/type-checked languages (e.g.Python, C++, Go)
- 10+years total experience in professional software engineering
- Experience with scheduler-driven, resource-constrained flight software development (ideally NASA Core Flight Systems)
- Exposure to embedded device development
- Experience withdeploying software to intermittently connected edge compute environments
- Relevant experience will includeOS level programming,containerized cluster management,embedded systems development,hardware acceleration, and a solid understanding of tradeoffs between features and footprint
Desired Qualifications:
- NVIDIA Jetson andCUDA programming experience
- Bootloader,Yoctodevice tree, and FPGA development experience
- Containerized workload management (Kubernetes)
- Containerbuilding andoptimization experience.
- Experience building andoptimizingscalable distributed image processing workflows
Compensation:
The salary range for this role is$190,000-$240,000per year, depending onpreviousexperience. Pay ranges aredeterminedby role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual pay will bedeterminedon a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: interviews and an assessment of several factors that are unique to each candidate, job-related skills, relevant education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and internal equity.
Work Location:
This is an onsite role tobe located inLouisville, CO.
Benefits:
The health and safety of our employees and their familiescomefirst.In addition to competitive salary and equity, we offer medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverage, unlimited paid time off, 12 paid holidays, parental leave, and 401K.The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits at any time.