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$173,800
Listed on LeoLabs’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
LeoLabs is hiring a Senior Radar Software Engineer to build and optimize software systems for their global radar network that tracks objects in low Earth orbit. This role suits experienced software engineers with a background in radar, sensor systems, or defense technology who want to work on space domain awareness and satellite operations.
Our summary, not LeoLabs’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong programming experience in Python, C++, or similar languages
- Experience designing and developing distributed systems, APIs, and data-intensive applications
- Linux-based development experience
- Software testing, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps familiarity
- Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Personnel Security Clearance
- ITAR eligibility
Nice to have
- Experience with radar systems, RF systems, signal processing, or sensor data processing
- Experience supporting U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or Space Force programs
- Experience working with bare-metal systems
- Familiarity with constrained compute environments
- Experience with large-scale telemetry, tracking, or real-time data processing systems
- Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret Personnel Security Clearance
- Experience supporting classified programs and secure computing environments