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Flight Software Engineer

Cowboyspace · Kent, Washington

Flight Software Engineer is open at Cowboyspace in Kent, Washington. The posting gives a salary of $200K - $250K. Posted on Sep 15, 2026, and still on Cowboyspace’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Flight Software Engineer to own the software that flies on our spacecraft. You'll be responsible for the payload flight software—written in Rust—spanning attitude and pointing state machines, on-board command handling, and telemetry and data storage. Today this work is distributed across several engineers; we need a senior technical owner to unify the architecture, set the patterns and…

The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Cowboyspace’s careers page.

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