Python & C++ Software Engineer for Aerospace Simulations

TheDriveGroup; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TheDriveGroup in Sydney is seeking a Software Engineer to join an early aerospace technology startup building software that helps engineers design spacecraft hardware.

This hands-on role involves designing and maintaining core platform components, diving into the codebase, and running large-scale AWS workflows with Python and C++. You’ll work with physics and simulation engineers to integrate models and shape the architecture as the team grows.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Comfortable working across complex technical systems.
• Strong Python and solid C++ experience (ideally).
• Hands on AWS experience.
• Strong systems design and architecture skills.
• Experience with distributed systems, compute-intensive workloads, data pipelines or orchestration.
• The ability to understand an existing codebase and improve it incrementally.
• A practical, hands-on approach to software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining core platform components across backend services and engineering interfaces.
• Getting deep into the existing codebase and making pragmatic decisions around what to improve, replace or build on.
• Designing and running large-scale parallel optimisation workflows on AWS.
• Building data pipelines, compute orchestration and the architectural foundations needed to scale.
• Writing high-performance Python and C++.
• Working alongside physics and simulation engineers to integrate complex simulation models into the platform.
• Contributing to system design, architecture, testing, CI/CD, coding standards and engineering processes as the team grows.

Skills

Python

C++

AWS

Systems design

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

TheDriveGroup in Sydney is seeking a Software Engineer to join an early aerospace technology startup building software that helps engineers design spacecraft hardware.

This hands-on role involves designing and maintaining core platform components, diving into the codebase, and running large-scale AWS workflows with Python and C++. You’ll work with physics and simulation engineers to integrate models and shape the architecture as the team grows.