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Flight Software Engineer

Reflect Orbital

Reflect Orbital

Software Engineering
Hawthorne, NJ, USA
USD 90k-205k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 19, 2025

Location

Hawthorne HQ

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Engineering

Compensation

  • Level 1$90K – $110K • Offers Equity
  • Level 2$100K – $125K • Offers Equity
  • Level 3$130K – $160K • Offers Equity
  • Level 4$150K – $185K • Offers Equity
  • Level 5$165K – $205K • Offers Equity

A wide range of seniority/experience levels are welcome to apply for this role. Compensation, titles and seniority will depend on candidate experience.

At Reflect, you will be expected to move fast, have a lot of ownership and, most importantly, be able to effect change. If this excites you, we are interested in hearing about your best work and accomplishments across any domain and from any points in your life.

About the Role

As a Flight Software Engineer you will design, develop, and deploy software flown onboard a fleet of novel low-Earth orbit spacecraft. You will engage with other software engineers, electrical engineers, and mission operations engineers to ensure flight software meets the needs of the mission throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Develop reliable autonomous software systems and the infrastructure to support rigorous testing and large-scale in-space deployment

  • Own all aspects of development, including: concept design, implementation, testing, and release

  • Implement software to support command and data handling, guidance navigation and control, and fault detection and isolation

  • Support on-orbit operations through continued development and over-the-air updates

Minimum Qualifications

  • Demonstrated excellence working on a comparable software project

  • 3+ Years of C/C++ Experience

Ideal Qualifications

  • Prior experience developing flight software for spacecraft or similar high-reliability products

  • Development experience on ARM microcontroller and embedded Linux platforms

  • Strong skills in debugging, unit testing, and integrated flight software/day in the life testing

  • Strong understanding of computer networking

  • Experience with fault-tolerant software design including watchdogs, voting logic, error correction codes, and fault detection and isolation

  • Exposure to industry software standards and best practices such as MISRA-C and JSF

  • Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment with evolving needs and requirement

Even if you don't meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you. Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.

We are also interested in carving out unique roles for unconventional people that we are excited about working with.

Benefits

Reflect Orbital’s success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we’re able.

  • Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy

  • Access to HSA, FSA, 401K, and commuter benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off, two-weeks per year minimum mandatory use

  • Healthy lunches provided daily

Equal Opportunity

Reflect Orbital is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Reflect Orbital is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

More about Reflect Orbital:

Learn more about our team here.

Compensation Range: $90K - $205K