Spaceflight software, avionics, and engineering services for human space programs
Cimarron is a Houston engineering firm building mission software and flight avionics for human spaceflight. Its stack pairs embedded tooling (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, Yocto, Buildroot, FPGA, VHDL) with CI/CD (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab CI/CD) and Mazak/DMG Mori machining, pointing to in-house hardware and software production. Accelerating, senior-heavy engineering hiring targets commercial station verification and a common avionics platform.
Cimarron Inc. is a privately held engineering company founded in 1981 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, with 201–500 employees. It provides systems engineering, software engineering, real-time command and control, and configuration and data management services for human space flight programs, including work in NASA Johnson Space Center mission control and training environments. The company also supports commercial space efforts such as cargo and crew transportation to low earth orbit. Its work spans embedded avionics, mission simulation, and precision manufacturing, with hiring concentrated in the United States.
Cimarron uses C++, Python, and Rust with embedded tools like FreeRTOS, Zephyr, Yocto, and VHDL, plus GitLab, Jenkins, TeamCity, Artifactory, Jira, Confluence, Jama Connect, and MBSE.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and dominated by engineering, mostly senior-level roles, with smaller manufacturing and operations openings, all in the United States.
Projects include software verification and integration for the Axiom Space commercial station, physics-based mission simulations, a common avionics platform, and ISS on-orbit anomaly assessment.
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