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.