Software Engineer - Vehicle Test

Astranis•San Francisco, CA

20h•$130,000 - $175,000•Onsite

About The Position

Astranis is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to join their rapidly-growing team and improve hardware testing capabilities. In this role, the engineer will design the end-to-end software architecture used to validate hardware at the integrated vehicle levels, as well as support major HITL testbed infrastructure for flight validation, ensuring aerospace systems are mission-ready. The testing and infrastructure will be the ultimate safeguard ensuring hardware and software are flight-ready. This role supports both commercial and U.S. Government programs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering (or equivalent background knowledge)
3+ 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
U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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