Onboard Software Engineer, Hyperdrive Platform
Loft Orbital
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Golden, CO · $155k–$225k a year · Posted November 4, 2026
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About the job
...Wanna join the adventure? Loft’s Onboard Software group provides the on-orbit software that powers our core products. This is responsible... ...of satellites. Must Haves:
~5+ years' software engineering experience, using programming languages including C/C++ (C++11...