K2 Space Corporation

K2 Space builds high-powered satellite platforms and satellite buses for missions across LEO, MEO, and GEO, emphasizing higher payload power, large payload mass, vertical integration, and in-house manufacturing.

Defense and Space Manufacturing
51-200
Founded 2022
$180M raised

Description

  • Design, develop, and own software test frameworks for K2’s flight software stack across propulsion, GNC, power, thermal, and communications subsystems.
  • Build and maintain automation tooling that integrates with CI/CD pipelines to support fast and reliable flight software deployment.
  • Develop hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) test infrastructure in collaboration with flight software engineers.
  • Create tooling for test execution, data collection, and anomaly triage that provides clear, actionable signal to engineers.
  • Reduce flaky and nondeterministic tests and continuously improve coverage, pipeline reliability, and test execution speed.
  • Collaborate with flight software, avionics, and systems engineers to define test requirements, write test plans, and execute verification campaigns.
  • Analyze test results to identify and characterize failures and drive resolution across the team.
  • Maintain documentation for test infrastructure, procedures, and hardware configurations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related STEM field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks, not just executing tests written by others.
  • Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins, and version control with Git.
  • Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testbeds or embedded systems testing (preferred).
  • Experience testing avionics, spacecraft, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other safety-critical hardware (preferred).
  • Rust programming experience, including embedded or no_std environments (preferred).
  • Knowledge of real-time operating systems (RTOS) or bare-metal embedded firmware (preferred).
  • Familiarity with aerospace communication protocols such as RS-422/485, Ethernet, UART, or SpaceWire (preferred).
  • Experience with electronics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and power supplies (preferred).
  • Containerization experience with Docker or Kubernetes for test environment management, Embedded Linux experience, and familiarity with shell scripting (preferred).
  • Must be a U.S. person or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $135,000 to $175,000, plus equity in the company.
  • Comprehensive benefits package.
  • Paid time off.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Life insurance.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Additional perks and benefits included in the package.

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