Senior Radar Software Engineer, LeoLabs
Mapping platform for space
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Mapping platform for space
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide data-driven transparency and certainty to satellite operators, regulators, space agencies, and industries that rely on satellite services.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has experience developing software for radar, sensor, defense, aerospace, or real-time data processing systems and enjoys solving complex technical challenges in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a 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
- Experience with Linux-based development environments
- Familiarity with software testing, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary engineering teams
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Personnel Security Clearance
Desirable
- Experience with radar systems, RF systems, signal processing, or sensor data processing applications
- Experience supporting U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or Space Force programs
- Experience working with bare-metal systems
- Familiarity working in constrained compute environments
- Experience working 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
What the job involves
- LeoLabs is seeking a Senior Radar Software Engineer to develop, integrate, and optimize software systems supporting advanced radar operations and space domain awareness missions
- This role will work closely with radar systems engineers, signal processing engineers, data scientists, and software developers to deliver high-performance radar capabilities that support mission-critical customer requirements
- Design, develop, test, and maintain software supporting radar data collection, processing, analysis, and operational deployment
- Develop interfaces and services supporting sensor operations, telemetry, data management, and mission execution
- Develop scalable and reliable software solutions for radar control, monitoring, automation, and performance optimization
- Collaborate with radar systems, signal processing, infrastructure, and operations teams to integrate new capabilities into operational environments
- Support software architecture development and technical design reviews
- Participate in system integration, verification, validation, and field testing activities
- Troubleshoot operational issues and support root-cause analysis for software and system anomalies
- Contribute to software development best practices, code reviews, and technical documentation
- Support customer demonstrations, technical briefings, and operational readiness activities as needed
Our take
Low Earth orbit (LEO) is fertile territory for the new space and satellite startups cropping up all over the world. It offers unrivalled access to lightning-fast communications and high-quality earth imaging - the only issue is, things are getting crowded up there. This in itself creates an access and safety issue for further developments and exploration, and collisions run the risk of creating even riskier levels of space debris.
LeoLabs’ LEO mapping and situational awareness services are designed to help organisations monitor and navigate this clutter, and it has cornered the market. Not only is it the leading company operating in this space, but it’s also been awarded a roster of hefty contracts, including from the US Department of Commerce, the European Space Agency and Japan's Air Self-Defence Force.
LEO's sustainability is an issue that’s only going to get more urgent as tech development continues to drive the direction of global communications and observation. So we may see more players push onto the scene. For now, however, LeoLabs’ impressive global leadership in the field and continued partnership with SRI International (from which the labs originally spun out) mean it has time to consolidate and expand its lead. Substantial funding awarded in 2024 will be used to scale up its end-user applications and partner integrations, and on the back of this, it saw $50 million in new contracts that same year.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2025
$4m
GRANT
Feb 2024
$29m
LATE VC
Total funding: $115m
Company benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
Company HQ
Suburban Park–Lorelei Manor–Flood Park Triangle, Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Daniel Ceperley
(Co-Founder & COO)Worked as a Student Researcher at at UC Berkeley, then served as Program Director for Space Debris Tracking at SRI International, from which project LeoLabs spun out.
Edward Lu
(Co-Founder & CTO)Spent over a decade as a NASA Astronaut, then moved into a Program Manager role at Google, then Chief of Innovative Applications at Liquid Robotics. Has also spent two decades as the Executive Director of B612 Foundation.
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