Satellite Flight Software Lead

Space Machines Company
📍 Botany, New South Wales, Australia 💼 Full time 🕒 Posted June 01, 2026

Job Description

About Us

Our mission is to safeguard critical space infrastructure by providing the first integrated security platform to see threats, decide fast and respond at scale. Where spacecraft have traditionally been costly, slow to produce and require extensive effort to coordinate, SMC is developing systems that are produced at scale and operated with human-on-the-loop autonomy to drastically reduce the cost and complexity of orbital operations.

As space becomes more congested and contested, the satellites that underpin modern life, including communications, navigation, financial systems, are increasingly exposed. We are developing the vehicles and software to protect them, working with commercial operators and government agencies across allied nations.

Our approach is grounded in economics as much as engineering. The Optimus Viper Rapid Response Vehicle delivers genuine mission capability at a fraction of conventional spacecraft cost, designed for hi...

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Job Details

  • Location Botany, New South Wales
  • Job Type Full time
  • Category Computer Occupations
  • Posted Date June 01, 2026
  • Application Deadline July 11, 2026