Senior Software Engineer - Vehicle Test

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our rapidly-growing team and improve our hardware testing capabilities.

In this role, you will design the end-to-end software architecture used to validate hardware at the integrated vehicle levels as well as supporting our major HITL testbed infrastructure for flight validation, ensuring our aerospace systems are mission-ready.

Your responsibilities include:

• Designing high-level software architecture in support of vehicle integration and test operations
• Coordinating across multiple teams to create software testing infrastructure based on testing and production needs
• Working with ground software and flight software teams to integrate flight software into test infrastructure
• Designing scalable test code to be reused across multiple different testing campaigns and vehicle generations
• Refining specifications from electrical engineers to validate critical flight components
• Supporting all phases of development from initial proposal development through successful test and flight
• Helping guide large test campaigns by creating the tools necessary for its success and delegating and mentoring more junior Engineers
• Assisting in recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional teammates to our rapidly-growing team
• Participating on a rotating on-call shift to troubleshoot and resolve flight and production issues

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering (or equivalent background knowledge)
• 5+ years total of relevant professional experience
• Strong proficiency in Python (or other high-level object-oriented scripting language(s))
• Experience designing software systems and test architectures/tooling/frameworks
• Experience with Linux and shell command line tools
• A passion for building things, including working in a fast-paced environment and hands-on design and development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus:

• Experience working with relational or time series databases
• Embedded systems experience
• Experience mentoring junior engineers

What we offer:

• Base salary: $150,000-$215,000 USD
• Significant equity package via incentive stock options
• High-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement planning
• Flexible PTO
• Free on-site catered meals