# Director of Software Engineering at Albedo

- Company: Albedo
- What the company does: Bringing space closer to Earth. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://albedo.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Broomfield, CO
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $234K to $270K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/albedo/jobs/4364179009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/albedo-director-of-software-engineering/

## About the role

Albedo is building software for satellites that fly in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO). As Director of Software Engineering, you'll lead the teams developing our flight software, GNC, ground systems, and applied AI, and ensure our missions meet their autonomy and performance objectives. This role will ensure long-term growth and adaptation as the pace of software and autonomy accelerates for VLEO and beyond.

## What they're looking for

- Twelve-plus years in real-time embedded, GNC, or flight software, with at least four leading software engineering managers
- Deep fluency in deterministic flight or flight-like software: timing, scheduling, fault containment, C++ on RTOS
- Track record of building simulation and HIL infrastructure that caught real bugs before flight, and post-mortem discipline that changed the pipeline when bugs survived
- Experience leading heterogeneous software teams across domains you did not personally come up through
- Real opinions on the HW/SW boundary, on-orbit vs ground compute split, and where abstractions earn their keep

Tags: Engineering Operations