Senior Radar Software Engineer

About the Company

At LeoLabs, we're building the living map of activity in space. Through our proprietary global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform, we collect millions of measurements daily on more than 25,000 objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). Our radar-powered intelligence protects billions in assets, monitors adversarial behavior, and ensures safe operations for commercial and government missions.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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