Software Engineer Jobs in Torrance, CA

Design, develop, document, integrate, test, and debug software solutions for end users. Support architecture and lifecycle management of embedded and real-time systems, collaborate with systems, digital, hardware, and integration teams in Agile environments, and troubleshoot system capabilities, data acquisition, programming methods, and control strategies in a fast-paced laboratory.

Ensures quality of mission-critical flight and ground software by defining development and test plans, creating automated pipeline tests, supporting code reviews, monitoring quality metrics, verifying releases, coordinating customer deliveries, and evaluating process compliance. The role supports software missions ranging from low Earth orbit to Mars and requires experience with software QA, test automation, CI/CD, documentation, Git, and process tailoring.

The Senior Software Engineer will design, code, and maintain web applications and APIs, troubleshoot production issues, and improve code maintainability.

Lead design and delivery of scalable full‑stack features using .NET and C#. Drive technical ownership, code quality, performance, and cross‑team collaboration with product, QA, and DevOps.

Develop and maintain flight-critical firmware for UAVs: implement flight modes and control algorithms, port and tune sensors across flight stacks, integrate datalinks and payloads, run bench and flight tests, debug hardware-coupled failures, and write unit/integration tests with SITL/HITL support.

Design, develop, integrate, and test embedded real-time flight software. Collaborate with systems, hardware, and test teams in an Agile environment to implement, debug, and verify software meeting system requirements. Support driver-level networking/serial interfaces and lab integration/testing.

Lead design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of real-time embedded firmware and telematics control unit software for vehicle ECUs. Integrate automotive buses (CAN/CAN‑FD/LIN/Ethernet/FlexRay), enforce functional safety and coding standards, develop secure V2C data pipelines and OTA systems, support HIL testing and debugging, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor junior/offshore engineers.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop a real-time ML data platform for maritime autonomy, focusing on data processing, pipeline building, and ensuring dataset quality and reproducibility.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will enhance user experience for maritime tech, develop a real-time data platform, and oversee large engineering projects.

Lead design, testing, and delivery of flight RF software for space missions. Implement RF software architectures, develop DSP and calibration algorithms, design RF control algorithms, bring up RF systems, and collaborate with ground software teams to test satellite-to-ground data pipelines.

Design, implement, and maintain test and automation software for data acquisition, hardware control, and user-facing GUIs. Collaborate with test operations through the full test lifecycle: design, integration, deployment, debugging, and support. Review and write code, work onsite, and deliver innovative solutions for testing operations.

Design, implement, validate, and maintain onboard image-processing and computer vision algorithms for spacecraft on microcontroller-class hardware. Collaborate with avionics, flight software, GNC, test, and mission teams to define performance requirements, build test tools and simulations, debug sensor bring-up and flight operations, and ensure robustness within constrained compute, memory, timing, and power budgets.

Design, test, and deliver flight RF embedded software for space missions. Implement RF communications requirements, DSP and calibration algorithms, RF control algorithms, FPGA/baseband bring-up, and collaborate with ground teams to develop and test satellite-to-ground data pipelines and RF system integration.

Design, write, and debug flight and ground software integration/regression tests (simulation and hardware-in-the-loop). Implement tests in Python, support C/C++ debug, bring up Docker containers and HIL environments, integrate hardware emulators, automate tests in CI/CD, and collaborate with GNC and ops to create day-in-the-life spacecraft test scenarios.

Develop real-time, fault-tolerant embedded firmware to control rocket and satellite actuators and motor-driven devices. Implement closed-loop control, interface with various sensors and communication protocols, design safety-critical state machines, support testing and hotfire campaigns, and produce unit-tested production firmware for spacecraft and testbeds.

Develop real-time, fault-tolerant embedded firmware for actuators and electromechanical control systems across launch vehicles and spacecraft. Implement closed-loop control, motor commutation, sensor feedback integration, and safety-critical state machines. Interface over CAN, SPI, UART, Ethernet, RS-422, and BISS-C; support testing, hotfire campaigns, and in-flight diagnostics. Produce unit-tested, production-quality firmware for harsh space environments.

Lead the Full Stack Software discipline by defining technical vision, governing tools/processes/training, building a community of practice, enabling sector-wide engineering toolchains, resolving technical shortfalls, embedding lessons learned, and improving software engineering KPIs and interoperability across multiple Aeronautics sites. This is a strategic leadership role focused on governance and enablement rather than day-to-day coding.

Lead the Cloud team to design, build, and operate Northwood's cloud platform for global antenna scheduling, booking, provisioning, orchestration, billing, and customer APIs. Drive architecture for distributed scheduling, telemetry, control and data planes, implement monitoring, collaborate with Ground and Data teams, and mentor engineers to deliver resilient, high-throughput, customer-facing services.

Lead design and implementation of cloud-based backend systems for global antenna scheduling, customer-facing APIs, billing/metering, and orchestration. Build reliable, scalable control and data planes across cloud and on-prem, collaborate with customers and operations, and enable secure TT&C and payload data transfer.

As a Senior Software Engineer, lead the development of real-time machine control systems for 3D metal printing platforms, influencing system performance and reliability. Mentor engineers, define software standards, and drive initiatives for system robustness and scalability.

Design and implement real-time machine control software for 3D metal printing systems while collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams to enhance system reliability and performance.

Design, implement, and integrate containerized cloud/private-cloud software components for a space mission planning system. Develop and integrate services with Kafka-based data streams, apply distributed-systems and secure-coding practices, maintain monitoring/logging, drive test automation and code quality, troubleshoot across app/container/cloud layers, and collaborate with systems engineers; occasional Scrum Master duties and 10% travel.

The role involves developing algorithms for robotic task and motion planning, collaborating with engineers, and enhancing software solutions for robotics systems.

The Software Integration & Test Engineer will develop automation software for production lines, manage test systems, and handle data acquisition, ensuring reliability and observability throughout the manufacturing process.

Design, develop, integrate, and test autonomy and AI/ML software for flight test environments using C++/Python, GPU/CUDA acceleration, DevOps pipelines, and HW/SW lab integration. Support flight tests (~10% travel), collaborate across teams, and work onsite in Redondo Beach.