Fortastra Corporation
Building autonomous maneuverable spacecraft for orbital asset security.
Company facts
- Founded
- 2025
- Employees
- 20
- Headquarters
- United States
- Type
- Private
- Funding
- Seed · $8.4M · 2025
Open positions
Sr. Ground Software Engineer
Senior Ground Software Engineer at Fortastra (Torrance, CA, on-site) owns ground control software that commands and monitors spacecraft, plus the telemetry data infrastructure and visualization/analysis tools supporting flight ops and ground tests. Works across the full ground stack using languages like Python, C++, Go, or Rust with databases, time-series stores, and streaming pipelines.
Head of Flight Software Engineer
Fortastra, an early-stage spacecraft startup in Torrance, CA, is hiring a Head of Flight Software Engineer to build its flight software stack end-to-end on-site — embedded software for flight computers/sensors, ground-side mission operations and telemetry tools, plus CI/CD, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing for autonomous national-security spacecraft.
Flight Software Engineer
Founding flight software engineer at Fortastra, a seed-funded spacecraft startup, building the end-to-end flight software stack for autonomous national-security spacecraft — ground-side mission operations tools plus vehicle-side embedded flight software. On-site in Torrance, CA, working closely with avionics, GNC, and systems engineers.
Mechanical Engineer II
Company Overview Fortastra designs and delivers resilient, high-performance spacecraft that safeguard critical orbital assets and ensure freedom of action in space. We integrate advanced autonomy, sensing, and control…
Head of Guidance, Navigation, and Control
Lead the architecture and delivery of flight-critical Guidance, Navigation, and Control systems for autonomous spacecraft, setting technical direction and managing a high-performing engineering team.
Technical Recruiter
Company Overview Fortastra designs and delivers resilient, high-performance spacecraft that safeguard critical orbital assets and ensure freedom of action in space. We integrate advanced autonomy, sensing, and control…
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
Company Overview Fortastra designs and delivers resilient, high-performance spacecraft that safeguard critical orbital assets and ensure freedom of action in space. We integrate advanced autonomy, sensing, and control…