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title: 'Software Engineer (Portal) at Northwood Space'
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# Software Engineer (Portal) at Northwood Space

- **Company:** Northwood Space
- **Location:** Torrance, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-11-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/northwoodspace/707d464d-a114-4721-95fd-a00398e04404

## Job description

About Northwood: Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. We are building a global network of phased array and parabolic ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions such as national security, global connectivity, and disaster response. With a vertically integrated approach, Northwood designs, builds, and rapidly deploys scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions. If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it.

Role: Northwood is looking for a Software Engineer focusing on control systems for our Phased Array antennas. As a Software Engineer at Northwood, you will be pivotal in designing, implementing, and optimizing the global service that delivers connectivity to our customers. You will have ownership over key areas ranging from control of our antenna systems to high-rate data processing. An ideal candidate is someone who likes to work across areas of responsibility and can dive deep into high-priority challenges. We seek versatile candidates who want to contribute across multiple areas while having a solid foundation in a few core areas of focus. These areas of focus include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Algorithms for antenna calibration and localization
- Algorithms for beamforming and antenna pointing
- Digital signal processing on high-rate data streams
- Telecommunications systems
- Multi-antenna orchestration
- Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) systems
- API, Database, and Inter-Process Communication (IPC) design
- Software simulations for test and verification

Basic Qualifications:

- 3+ years of professional software development experience. This doesn’t have to be a full-time role. There are many ways to gain valuable experience, and we’d love to hear about yours; please tell us about internships, projects out of the classroom, or any personal wo.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics, or other related discipline. This is a soft-requirement; if you didn’t pursue a degree, tell us why and what you've done in its place.

Preferred Qualifications: While we don’t expect you to have every skill listed below, we do expect you to take ownership of one or more areas and drive decisions and implementations where your strengths lie.

- Programming Languages (General): Rust, C, C++, Go, Python, Java
- Strong problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- High mathematical maturity

Domain specific skills:

- APIs and Inter-Service Communication:
- Experience in building RESTful APIs
- Experience with Protocol Buffers and/or gRPC
- Antenna Systems
- Knowledge of the physics of Phased Arrays and beamforming
- Familiarity with spatial filtering and adaptive beamforming methods
- Data Movement and Networking:
- Proficiency in architecting data pipelines for high-throughput environments
- Understanding of network programming and IP protocols
- Experience with high-speed communications (10/25/100G Ethernet)
- Databases and Data Processing:
- Proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Knowledge of publish/subscribe architectures and technologies (RabbitMQ, MQTT, Redis Pub/Sub, etc.)
- Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing:
- Experience designing and implementing distributed systems
- Knowledge of cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and orchestration tools
- Familiarity with microservice architectures
- Hardware Interaction and FPGAs:
- Experience with hardware control systems
- Familiarity with FPGA programming and orchestration
- Understanding of embedded systems development
- Parallel Systems
- Experience writing multithreaded systems
- Knowledge of synchronization primitives, including mutexes, semaphores, and message passing queues
- Experience with asynchronous programming
- Signal Processing
- Knowledge of signal processing mathematics, particularly digital signal processing (e.g., Discrete Fourier Transforms, Filtering, Quantization, etc.)
- Experience implementing signal processing routines on real systems
- Simulation
- Experience designing/implementing simulations for physical models (think satellite orbits) or hardware systems
- Telecommunications:
- Knowledge of modulation schemes and modems
- Knowledge of error correction and coding schemes, including linear block codes, convolutional codes, and Reed-Solomon codes
- Testing and Automation:
- Experience with automated testing frameworks
- Familiarity with production line testing software

Additional Information:

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Northwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

If you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know at accommodations@northwoodspace.io

## About Northwood Space

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Building a global ground network for the future of space communications — delivering vertically integrated hardware, software, and shared infrastructure that lets space missions go from concept to live data delivery in months instead of years.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, raised $100M in January 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States (additional offices in Torrance, CA; Washington, D.C.; with presence in the United Kingdom and India)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Bridgit Mendler (CEO, Cofounder), Griffin Cleverly (Co-Founder, CTO), Shaurya Luthra (Co-Founder, Head of Digital)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Defense and Space Manufacturing; Space-to-ground infrastructure; Satellite communications.
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2G — commercial satellite operators, government agencies (e.g., U.S. Space Force), and defense customers.
- **Mission**: “Take space missions further, faster” by building resilient, cloud-like ground infrastructure for the next century of space operations.

## Products & Services
- **Hardware (Antennas built for scale)** : Phased-array antenna systems designed for volume manufacturing and rapid deployment (hours, not months).
- **Network (Shared infrastructure)** : A horizontally scalable, dynamic capacity provisioning network that eliminates single points of failure and works across multiple orbits and frequency bands.
- **Software (Orchestration intelligence)** : The intelligence layer that schedules contacts, routes data, and manages the entire ground network — enabling on-demand capacity without traditional procurement cycles.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — **$136.4M** across four rounds (Grant $100K in 2023, Seed $6.3M in 2024, Series A $30M in 2025, Series B $100M in 2026).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (led Seed, Series A, and Series B), Founders Fund (Seed), Washington Harbour Partners (led Series B and a prior round). Strategic partners include government agencies and commercial launch providers.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **117.6% YoY** to 65 employees (as of mid-2026).
  - 48 active job postings (+140% YoY increase).
  - Successfully tested next-generation phased array antennas.
  - Won a U.S. Space Force contract (mentioned in news snippets).
  - Expanded to three U.S. offices and international presence (UK, India).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated ground stack** — from antenna hardware to network orchestration software — collapses deployment timelines from years to months/days.
- **Hardware that deploys in hours** and scales like cloud computing, avoiding traditional multi-year procurement cycles.
- **Resilient, shared infrastructure** designed for multiple orbits and frequency bands, reducing single points of failure.
- **Strong talent pipeline** from SpaceX, Anduril, Tesla, Palantir, and other top aerospace/defense firms.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the global ground network** by deploying more sites and increasing capacity for both government and commercial customers.
- **Volume manufacturing** of antenna systems to meet surging demand.
- **Deepen partnerships** with defense and intelligence agencies (National Security Space) and commercial satellite operators.
- **Continue hiring aggressively** across engineering, operations, site management, and business development.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include humility, bias to action, autonomy, and exceptionalism. Teams are trusted to own their work and make decisions.
- **Impact**: Work is deployed globally — antennas built in Torrance, software orchestrated from LA, sites stood up worldwide.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, comprehensive medical/dental/vision, employer-sponsored 401(k), paid parental leave, commuter benefits, sponsored clubs and quarterly events.
- **Work Model**: Likely on-site for hardware roles (Torrance, El Segundo, Washington D.C.); some software roles may offer flexibility. Two main office hubs: Los Angeles (HQ) and Washington D.C.
- **Engineering culture**: Fast iteration, real-world deployment, cross-functional collaboration. “If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in locations around the globe, we want you at Northwood.”

## Sources
1. [northwoodspace.io](https://www.northwoodspace.io/)
2. [northwoodspace.io/about-us](https://www.northwoodspace.io/about-us)
3. [northwoodspace.io/careers](https://www.northwoodspace.io/careers)
4. [LinkedIn – Northwood](https://www.linkedin.com/company/northwood-space)
5. [Crunchbase – Northwood Space](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/northwood-space)

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