Senior Software Engineer

CesiumAstro•Austin, TX

About The Position

CesiumAstro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop, integrate, and maintain software supporting its products and platforms. The role applies established software engineering principles to build software solutions, optimize application performance, and resolve complex engineering challenges from concept through integration, verification, and production. The engineer works cross-functionally with software, systems, electrical, hardware, quality, and test engineering teams, supporting multidisciplinary engineering efforts, technical investigations, and continuous improvement. Applicants must meet U.S. Government space technology export-control eligibility requirements: be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, or refugee (a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field with 5–8 years of related experience; or a master's degree with 3–6 years; or a PhD with 0–3 years of related experience in software engineering, application development, embedded software, software architecture, or a related technical discipline.
Strong knowledge of software engineering principles, software development lifecycles, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
Experience with programming languages, version control systems, integrated development environments, debugging tools, and software optimization techniques.
Knowledge of software architecture, software design patterns, operating systems, interface development, and application design.
Understanding of software verification, engineering documentation, coding standards, software configuration management, continuous integration, and release management.
Proficiency in system integration, automated build processes, software performance optimization, defect resolution, and software quality practices.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
U.S. Government space technology export-control eligibility: U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, or refugee (protected individual under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Responsibilities

Develop software applications, components, libraries, system interfaces, and application features for product development.
Implement, debug, integrate, and unit-test software; optimize software and develop features.
Evaluate software requirements, interface specifications, architecture documentation, source code, and technical documentation to support implementation.
Develop and conduct software verification, validation, debugging, integration, and troubleshooting activities.
Analyze software test results, system behavior, performance data, and engineering observations to resolve technical issues.
Recommend software updates, defect fixes, engineering changes, and corrective actions to improve software quality, reliability, maintainability, and performance.
Collaborate with software, systems, electrical, hardware, quality, and test engineering teams throughout software development and integration.
Prepare software documentation, technical reports, engineering change documentation, software release documentation, and interface documentation.
Participate in code and design reviews, technical investigations, customer support activities, software integration, and software release initiatives.
Evaluate software engineering methods, development practices, coding standards, software architectures, and development processes to identify improvement opportunities.
Validate compliance with engineering standards, company procedures, customer requirements, and software development best practices.
Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen software quality, reliability, maintainability, engineering efficiency, and product performance.