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Matter Intelligence
El Segundo, California, United States
Source: Matter Intelligence careers · View original posting
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We are looking for a Flight Software Engineer with strong software fundamentals, real embedded or flight software experience, and the judgment to build robust systems under practical constraints. This role sits close to the hardware and close to the mission: you will help define how onboard systems collect data, manage resources, handle failures, and move information from sensor to storage to downlink.
In this role, you will work across the full stack of flight software, from low-level interfaces and concurrency primitives to application-level services and end-to-end test infrastructure. You will be expected to reason clearly about trade-offs, debug across hardware and software boundaries, and build systems that are simple enough to trust when the environment gets messy.
As an early member of the team, you will also help shape the engineering culture around flight software: how we write interfaces, test behavior, document assumptions, review designs, and balance first-principles rigor with pragmatic execution.
Matter is building sensor infrastructure to read the Earth’s material fingerprint from orbit, turning previously inaccessible data into critical intelligence for industries like agriculture, mining, insurance, resource management, and environmental monitoring. We are revealing a layer of detail about the planet that has never been seen before.
Founded by engineers and scientists with deep NASA/JPL roots, Matter combines meticulous, first-principles science with the speed, ownership, and practical focus of an early-stage startup. Our work spans hardware, sensing, flight software, data infrastructure, and AI systems, and the software we build must hold up across the full path from collection through customer-facing insight.
This role sits close to the core of the mission. You will work with people across hardware, science, and software, and your work will shape how reliably we can collect data, operate payload systems, and learn from the physical world.
Why this role
This is a rare chance to build foundational flight software for a sensing system that has to work outside the comfort of ordinary production environments. The constraints are real, the feedback loops are hands-on, and the quality bar matters.
You will have meaningful ownership over architecture, implementation, and test strategy in a fast-moving environment. You will help define how Matter builds reliable flight software: how we structure services, validate behavior, handle failure, and make the system understandable to the people who operate and extend it.
If you’re excited about building robust software close to the hardware, working across disciplines, and helping create a new way to understand the physical world, we’d love to talk.
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