Lead Spaceflight Software Engineer

Anduril Industries; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Chantilly, VA, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own the full lifecycle of flight, ground test, and ground station software across embedded and host levels. Lead a skilled team, architect systems, and drive high-reliability software for space missions.

You will mentor engineers, tackle complex interfaces, data storage, computer vision, FPGA interfacing, and collaborate with C2 software integration while delivering reusable solutions and robust designs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical/computer engineering, or similar engineering or technical field.
• 10+ years Software Engineering Experience directly developing a combination of embedded, host, and product-specific software.
• 3+ years of leading a software engineering team working on small spacecraft.
• Experience developing subsystem requirements and interfaces; including mission systems and developing software architectures to meet those requirements with reusable software.
• Experience writing embedded C code, device drivers, and implementing algorithms with limited computational & storage resources.
• Experience writing host level code for GUI, database interaction, and protocol interfaces/translators needed for interfacing different parts of spacecraft systems together.
• Experience on mature spacecraft development programs including operational and environmental testing.
• Experience developing various design artifacts, such as: Design Review material (CoDR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc), design notes, and other documentation to help assure a team of engineers understands the algorithms and intent of the software they are implementing.
• Outstanding communication skills to include presentation of developed artifacts.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

• Work with a cross-functional team to design market leading hardware-based products
• Drive product maturity through rapid prototyping, design verification, and qualification activities
• Apply modern space-flight software design standards and guidelines to create high-reliability, highly manufacturable systems, and a team which implements them.
• Architect and design flight, ground, and payload systems to be able to generically implement the given mission requirements, and effectively communicate these goals, along with specific taskings, to your team
• Operate as a member of your team and a resource for them when they are stuck
• Understand the mission needs and effectively translate them into software products that are both efficient in implementing but are generic enough to be ultra-reusable for lowest cost future development
• Lead the team in establishing internal guidelines and best practices for space flight software design, test, manufacture, and operations
• Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews and develop customer-facing system design documentation and presentations
• Help drive development, integration and test activities to meet schedule
• Work in a fast-paced environment, having to juggle multiple concurrent projects and customers

Skills

Embedded C

Device drivers

Host GUI

Leadership

Spacecraft experience

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS / EE or similar

MS degree preferred

Job description

Anduril Industries in Chantilly, VA, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own the full lifecycle of flight, ground test, and ground station software across embedded and host levels. Lead a skilled team, architect systems, and drive high-reliability software for space missions.

You will mentor engineers, tackle complex interfaces, data storage, computer vision, FPGA interfacing, and collaborate with C2 software integration while delivering reusable solutions and robust designs.