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Software Engineer, Space Special Programs in USA new

  • Anduril Industries
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Chantilly, VA

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain flight, ground-test, ground-station, and payload software across embedded and host environments.
  • Implement embedded C code, device drivers, communication protocols, algorithms, and software operating under constrained computational and storage resources.
  • Build host-side GUIs, database interfaces, protocol translators, equipment interfaces, data-analysis tools, displays, and data compression and extraction capabilities.
  • Integrate software with hardware, FPGA systems, command-and-control software, and spacecraft databases.
  • Design spacecraft software architectures and reusable systems based on mission requirements and subsystem interfaces.
  • Support rapid prototyping, design verification, qualification, integration, operational testing, and mission operations.
  • Apply high-reliability space-flight software practices such as fault detection and recovery, error checking, and data redundancy.
  • Develop design-review materials, technical documentation, customer-facing presentations, and internal software-development guidelines.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical or computer engineering, or a similar engineering or technical field.
  • 3–4+ years of software engineering experience directly developing embedded, host, and product-specific software.
  • Experience developing subsystem requirements and interfaces, mission systems, and reusable software architectures.
  • Experience writing embedded C, device drivers, and algorithms for limited computational and storage resources.
  • Experience writing host-level code for GUIs, database interaction, and spacecraft protocol interfaces or translators.
  • Experience on mature spacecraft development programs, including operational and environmental testing.
  • Experience creating design-review materials such as CoDR, SDR, PDR, CDR, and TRR artifacts, design notes, and related documentation.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills.
  • U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
  • Preferred: master's degree in aerospace, mechanical engineering, computer science, or a similar technical field.
  • Preferred: high ownership across the full lifecycle of a spacecraft or space system, experience in classified environments, and experience designing, integrating, and flying CubeSats from LEO through GEO.

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.
  • Full-time role based in Chantilly, Virginia.
  • Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.

Salary: $167k - $220k/yr

Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries builds advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance military awareness and security across land, sea, and air. Targeting defense agencies and allied military forces, it leverages its proprietary Lattice platform to drive innovation in military capabilities. What sets Anduril...

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