Aerospace Software Engineer – Vehicle Test & Validation

Astranis Space Technologies; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

401(k)

On-site meals

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Astranis Space Technologies seeks a Software Engineer to join the Vehicle Test team in San Francisco. You will architect software to support vehicle integration and testing, and build scalable test infrastructure to validate flight hardware.

You will collaborate with ground and flight software teams, refine specifications with electrical engineers, and contribute to HITL testbeds while mentoring junior engineers and supporting on-call flight/production issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent).
• 3+ years relevant professional experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python (or other high-level object oriented scripting language).
• Experience designing software systems and test architectures/tooling/frameworks.
• Experience with Linux and shell command line tools.
• Hands-on design and development in fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design high-level software architecture in support of vehicle integration and test operations.
• Coordinate across multiple teams to create software testing infrastructure.
• Work with ground software and flight software teams to integrate flight software into test infrastructure.
• Design scalable test code to be reused across multiple testing campaigns and vehicle generations.
• Refine specifications from electrical engineers to validate critical flight components.
• Support all phases of development from proposal to successful test and flight.
• Help recruit, interview, and hire additional teammates; mentor junior engineers.
• Participate on rotating on-call shift to troubleshoot flight and production issues.

Skills

Python

Linux

Software design

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Testing frameworks

Test infrastructure tooling

Job description

Astranis Space Technologies seeks a Software Engineer to join the Vehicle Test team in San Francisco. You will architect software to support vehicle integration and testing, and build scalable test infrastructure to validate flight hardware.

You will collaborate with ground and flight software teams, refine specifications with electrical engineers, and contribute to HITL testbeds while mentoring junior engineers and supporting on-call flight/production issues.