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Astro Digital · Littleton, Colorado
About Astro Digital
Astro Digital designs, builds, and operates a diverse range of small satellite systems supporting space-based turnkey missions for several business applications, including earth observation, communications, in-orbit demonstrations, risk reduction, science, and exploration. Astro Digital is headquartered in Littleton, Colorado with 110+ employees and infrastructure around the globe.
Position Summary
Astro Digital is seeking a Spacecraft Product Software Engineer to work with our Embedded Software, Hardware, and Systems Engineering teams to transform internally developed spacecraft technologies into productized subsystems that can be delivered, integrated, and supported across a broad customer base.
This role bridges the gap between mission-specific development and commercial product development. You will help take spacecraft subsystem technologies that can be standardized into repeatable products, define software architectures and interfaces that support multiple customer applications, and ensure subsystem software is robust, documented, configurable, and maintainable throughout the product lifecycle.
The ideal candidate understands both embedded spacecraft software and product engineering principles. Success in this role requires balancing customer requirements, software maintainability, hardware constraints, documentation quality, and long-term product strategy.
We offer a hybrid schedule that blends in-person collaboration from either our Littleton, CO or San Jose, CA facility, and remote flexibility.
Primary Duties &
Productization
Partner with Embedded Software Engineers to evolve internally developed spacecraft subsystem software into customer-facing products
Identify opportunities to increase software reuse, standardization, and configurability across subsystem offerings
Drive the transition from mission-specific implementations to scalable, product-oriented software architectures
Define software release strategies, versioning approaches, and long-term sustainment plans for subsystem products
Subsystem Software Development
Develop software components supporting Astro Digital avionics and spacecraft subsystem products, including onboard computers, communications systems, power electronics, network routers, and other spacecraft hardware
Develop APIs, middleware, services, command interfaces, and telemetry interfaces that simplify customer integration
Support software integration, verification, qualification, and acceptance testing activities
Participate in subsystem bring-up, debugging, and hardware-software integration efforts
Customer Enablement
Work with customers to understand integration requirements and deployment environments
Define and maintain customer-facing software documentation, interface control documents (ICDs), software manuals, and integration guides
Support customer integration and troubleshooting activities throughout product deployment
Participate in technical interchange meetings, design reviews, and customer demonstrations
Product Lifecycle Management
Support product roadmaps and feature planning activities
Evaluate customer requests and determine whether enhancements should be incorporated into the product baseline
Balance short-term customer needs with long-term product maintainability
Drive continuous improvement based on manufacturing feedback, integration experiences, qualification testing, and customer operations
Minimum
Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Python
Familiarity with communications interfaces such as SPI, UART, I2C, CAN, TCP, and UDP
Familiarity with spacecraft avionics and subsystem architectures
Experience working directly with customers to support product deployment and integration
Familiarity with spacecraft telemetry, command, and communications architectures
Pay Transparency
Astro Digital employees are provided with a comprehensive benefits package that includes company stock options, healthcare, 401k retirement plan, and PTO. The range of possible compensation for this role is $140k-$180k annually, depending on candidate experience, alignment, and location.
Physical Demands
This position requires the ability to lift and move objects weighing up to 40 Lbs. Occasional standing, walking, bending, and reaching may be required.
Export Statement
This position requires access to export-controlled commodities, technical data, technology, software, and services. U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 22 CFR §120.15 and 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3) is required.
Details
| Company | Astro Digital |
| Location | Littleton, Colorado |
| Type | FULL TIME |
| Niche | Engineering professionals (excluding electrotechnology) |