Automation Engineer for Space Telecom & RF Systems

Worky; Lanham (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AST SpaceMobile in Lanham, MD seeks an Automation Developer to design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks, dashboards, data pipelines, and test tools for satellite, gateway, and LTE analytics. Proficiency in Python is essential.

You will build end-to-end and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test suites, automate RF/system validations, create dashboards and reports, and contribute AI-assisted tooling to expose lab equipment, telemetry, and CI systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, software engineering, computer science, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automated test frameworks, scripts, APIs, dashboards, and tools using Python.
• Develop end-to-end and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test suites for satellite, gateway, RF, payload, embedded, and communication-system workflows.
• Build and maintain automation with web GUI support, cloud-triggered job execution, instrument drivers, result storage, and automated report generation.
• Automate RF and system validation procedures that control lab equipment.
• Develop and maintain analytics and monitoring workflows for gateway/satellite platforms.
• Build and maintain AI-agent tooling for the automation stack, including MCP servers and APIs that expose lab equipment, telemetry, dashboards, and CI systems as agent-callable tools operating within defined cost, token, and latency budgets.
• Analyze test results, identify root causes, debug automation failures, and collaborate with developers and engineering teams to resolve issues.
• Present analysis visually in dashboards, charts, and reports that surface findings and required actions for engineers and non-specialist stakeholders alike.
• Create and maintain detailed automation documentation, test plans, user guides, reports, acceptance criteria, and operational handover material.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure test coverage, repeatability, maintainability, product quality, and operational reliability.

Skills

Python

Automation development

REST APIs

CI/CD

AI agent tooling

Test automation

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Git

GitHub Copilot

Jenkins

GitLab CI

FastAPI

React

PostgreSQL

InfluxDB

AWS ECS/Fargate

S3

SCPI/TCP

HTTP/XML

SNMP

SSH

Job description

AST SpaceMobile in Lanham, MD seeks an Automation Developer to design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks, dashboards, data pipelines, and test tools for satellite, gateway, and LTE analytics. Proficiency in Python is essential.

You will build end-to-end and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test suites, automate RF/system validations, create dashboards and reports, and contribute AI-assisted tooling to expose lab equipment, telemetry, and CI systems.