Cowboy Space Corp.
Building satellite-based orbital infrastructure for AI data centers.
Company facts
- Founded
- 2024
- Employees
- 100
- Headquarters
- United States
- Type
- Private
- Funding
- Series B · $275M · 2026
Open positions
Ground Station Software Engineer
Owns the Python and Go software that forms the communications backbone between ground stations and Cowboy Space's satellites — designing distributed systems, building simulation and testing frameworks, integrating with hardware, and supporting on-orbit operations for a space-based solar energy startup.
Controls Software Engineer, Pointing & Tracking
Own the real-time control loop software that keeps lasers precisely pointed between moving satellites and ground stations at Cowboy Space, a startup building space-based solar energy infrastructure. Day to day, you translate control theory into embedded Rust, tune closed-loop controllers, build simulation and HIL test tooling, and support hardware integration through on-orbit operations.
Intern, Software Engineering, 2027
Quarter-long, paid ($1,800/week) software engineering internship for 2027 at Cowboy Space Corp, a San Carlos, CA startup building space-based solar power satellites. Interns design, build, and test software across flight, embedded, and ground systems — avionics, GNC, signal processing, on-orbit GPU/TPU compute, and mission operations tooling — using C, C++, and Python.
Flight Software Engineer
Senior flight software engineer who owns payload flight software for Cowboy Space's satellites — writing Rust for attitude/pointing state machines, command handling, and telemetry/data storage, setting the team's architecture, building HIL/simulation test infrastructure, and driving toward a near-term on-orbit demonstration. On-site in San Carlos, CA or Kent, WA.
Software Engineer, Test & Automation
Own and build hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure for satellites, automating test orchestration with Python/C/C++ against real or emulated spacecraft hardware in a lab environment.
Software Engineer
Builds software that controls and scales spacecraft and ground infrastructure — flight software interfacing with hardware, simulation/testing frameworks, mission control, and internal tooling. Works across the stack with hardware teams, using languages like C++, Python, or Rust at a space-based solar energy startup.
Senior Software Engineer
Senior software engineer building high-reliability flight, mission, and ground software (C&DH, FDIR, secure comms) plus simulation and hardware-in-the-loop tools for a space-based solar power and orbital compute platform. Core stack is systems-level C++, Rust, and Python, working on-site in San Carlos, CA.