Senior Radar Software Engineer

The role

The Senior Radar Software Engineer will develop, integrate, and optimize software systems for radar operations and space domain awareness missions. This role involves designing software for radar data collection, processing, and operational deployment.

What you will do

• 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.
• 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.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Personnel Security Clearance.

Nice to have

• 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.

Benefits

• Flexible remote/hybrid opportunities
• Unlimited paid time off for most roles
• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage

Before you apply

• Must be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to conform to ITAR.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Personnel Security Clearance.

About the company

LeoLabs builds a living map of activity in space using a proprietary global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform. The company provides Space Domain Awareness, Space Traffic Management, and Satellite Operations for space operators and defense organizations.