Battle Management Software Lead — AI-Driven, On-Site Ops (Austin)

York Space Systems; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Holidays & sick time

Unlimited PTO

401(k) match

Job summary

York Space Systems in Austin, TX is seeking a Battle Management Software Lead to guide a cross-functional software team developing mission-critical capabilities. You will provide technical leadership, architectural direction, and hands-on guidance to deliver scalable software for planning, coordination, and real-time decision support.

The role emphasizes AI-driven development workflows, modern distributed systems, and rapid prototyping with verification through advanced simulations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience with frontend/web development focus.
• 2+ years in technical leadership, project leadership, or people management in agile workflows.
• Experience with Linux environments and distributed systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and grow a team of software engineers and improve agent behavior.
• Design software architectures suitable for agentic development.
• Oversee requirements, interfaces, architecture reviews, and design decisions.
• Translate designs into high quality, maintainable software meeting functional and visual standards.
• Lead verification and validation plans and agile ceremonies; ensure releases.

Skills

Frontend development

Team leadership

Agile methodologies

Distributed systems

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Docker

TypeScript

React

PostgreSQL

Python

Job description

York Space Systems in Austin, TX is seeking a Battle Management Software Lead to guide a cross-functional software team developing mission-critical capabilities. You will provide technical leadership, architectural direction, and hands-on guidance to deliver scalable software for planning, coordination, and real-time decision support.

The role emphasizes AI-driven development workflows, modern distributed systems, and rapid prototyping with verification through advanced simulations.