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Director of Software

Albedo· Engineering
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Broomfield, CO$200k - $218.8kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Full-stack VLEO satellite missions – leads the software organization across flight, ground, and AI domains to enable autonomous, high-performance satellite systems in Very Low Earth Orbit.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the software engineering organization — FSW, GNC, applied AI, ground — across approximately three to four teams of managers and ICs
  • Own the integrated software performance of the satellite: deterministic flight software, control law implementation and verification, on-orbit and on-ground AI, and the command-and-control path
  • Manage the simulation and HIL infrastructure that scales across the program and stays honestly flight-like
  • Lead the closure of the GNC analytical-to-flight loop so that anomalies trace cleanly to model gaps or implementation bugs without ambiguity
  • Develop technical leaders in each software domain (including domains outside your strongest) and resist the gravity to over-invest in your home discipline
  • Defend the boundary between flight software and ground tooling, and the boundary between software and hardware, against drift
  • Partner with the Director of Hardware, Systems Engineering, and Program Management to make software a peer of hardware in the system

Qualifications

  • Twelve-plus years in real-time embedded, GNC, or flight software, with at least four leading software engineering managers
  • Deep fluency in deterministic flight or flight-like software: timing, scheduling, fault containment, C++ on RTOS
  • GNC literacy at the leadership level - understanding control law structure, estimator behavior, actuator interaction, and their failure modes
  • Track record of building simulation and HIL infrastructure that caught real bugs before flight, and post-mortem discipline that changed the pipeline when bugs survived
  • Experience leading heterogeneous software teams across domains you did not personally come up through
  • Real opinions on HW/SW boundary, on-orbit vs ground compute split, and where abstractions earn their keep

Skills

Required:Real-time embedded software leadershipGNC and flight software fluencySimulation and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) infrastructureLeadership across heterogeneous software teams

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
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Albedo

Full-stack VLEO satellite missions

Albedo builds and operates satellites in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) — a new orbital layer much closer to Earth than traditional satellites in LEO. Flying lower unlocks sharper imagery, faster communications, and real-time maneuverability with smaller, more efficient hardware. VLEO is naturally self-cleaning and resilient, offering a sustainable alternative to crowded low Earth orbit - providing diversification and redundancy for critical systems that we rely on in higher orbits. With the only flight proven VLEO system on the market, Albedo is creating a new orbital infrastructure designed for speed, precision, and resilience.

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