Flight Software Engineer

Number of employees

75

Denver, CO, USA

Posted on: 2026-01-14

Category: climate

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Albedo builds & operates VLEO satellites. Our first satellite Clarity-1 captures visible and thermal imagery at the highest resolution commercially available.

The world is rapidly changing and a new level of visibility and transparency is required to solve some of our largest problems. Albedo’s 10 cm visible and 2m thermal imagery will fuel insights for industries such as mapping, insurance, utilities, solar, agriculture, infrastructure sustainability, national security, and much more.

Be one of the Bedo 100

Albedo is making Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mainstream, building the infrastructure to usher every satellite mission set into this new orbital domain. We build buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers to thrive in VLEO, between 200 km - 400 km, where proximity compounds performance & drag self-cleans debris.

As part of the first 100 employees at Albedo, you will have a big impact on Albedo’s trajectory to proliferating VLEO — whether you’re advancing hardware to increase satellite longevity, scaling production for large constellations, building next-gen flight and ground software to push performance, or enabling missions that matter for national security and our day-to-day life here on earth.

How We Operate: Albedo takes a first-principles approach — in space and in business. We move with speed, take calculated risks, and learn quickly. We use AI regularly to create leverage in every discipline across the company. We work in-person at our Broomfield CO HQ to maximize team & company productivity. We work hard & with urgency to compound our first-mover advantage.

Who We're Looking For: Builders who want to own outcomes, not tasks. Systems thinkers who balance precision with iteration while thinking about the big picture. Individuals who are energized by creating a category rather than competing in an existing one. You’ll join a team that has already proven what others said wasn’t feasible and is now scaling & upgrading our VLEO buses & payloads to serve mission sets across sensing, communications, and responsive operations.

If you can feel the excitement running through your veins, apply to be one of the Bedo 100.

Albedo does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers email or to Albedo employees. Albedo is not responsible for any fees or overhead related to unsolicited resumes.

Full-Time On-Site Work Environment: This position requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site full-time. Travel to other possible non-Albedo locations may be required.

Relocation: Relocation for this position is available

Working Conditions:
Work is performed in an office environment, laboratory, cleanroom, or production floor.

US CITIZENSHIP IS REQUIRED

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Albedo does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Albedo employees. Albedo is not responsible for any fees or overhead related to unsolicited resumes.

Additional Requirements: In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. All persons hired will be required to be a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled: Albedo is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Relocation: Relocation for this position is available

US CITIZENSHIP IS REQUIRED

#LI-Onsite

Compensation and Benefits:

  • Employee friendly equity compensation
  • 4% direct matching 401k
  • Health Insurance: 100% employee coverage & 75% dependent coverage
  • Parental leave and childcare coverage
  • Flexible vacation and sick time from day one
  • 12 company holidays
  • $100 monthly wellness benefit
  • Relocation package if not based in Denver
  • What You'll Do:

  • Work directly with avionics hardware to develop highly performant software in embedded Linux.
  • Benchmark our solutions to ensure we’re meeting our tight timing constraints.
  • Design software solutions that can communicate between real-time operating systems and embedded Linux.
  • Verify our software works end-to-end, from ground communication to spacecraft commanding.
  • Participate in integration and test campaigns to ensure our software is robust.
  • Assist in maintaining automated systems for CI/CD, both software-only and hardware solutions.
  • Your Ideal Skills and Experience:

  • Understand trade-offs when it comes to topics such as memory, processor capabilities, hardware offloading, latency/bandwidth, or build versus re-use.
  • Can use version control, such as Git (hint: we use it), and you might be pedantic about how you version your software (like using SemVer).
  • Demonstrate a core competency in one, or many, of the following: networking communication, distributed computing, Linux driver development, middleware frameworks, state machine modeling, real-time operating systems, software/hardware simulations, or pick your flavor of nerding out and tell us!
  • Most importantly, want to learn, and want to be challenged.
  • Have read all of this and are excited to apply!

  • Even if you feel like you don’t meet all of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply! Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. 

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