Principal Software Engineer, Mission Design | OnSite 3x/wk

Telemetry Today LLC; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 266,000 - 298,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Short & long-term disability

Life insurance

Three weeks paid vacation

12 paid holidays

Unlimited sick time

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Muon Space in Silicon Valley seeks a Principal Software Engineer to synthesize the full software architecture and roadmap with mission needs, guiding evolution of a common platform and partnering with Business Development, Product Management, Systems Engineering and Hardware. You will identify risks and opportunities to deliver customer value when needed.

The preferred location is San Jose, CA on-site three days per week, with other locations considered for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Expertise in whole-system design, holistic testing and deployment strategy, and the state of the art in software engineering methodology.
• Extensive knowledge of theory and practice across aerospace, robotics or an adjacent domain.
• Excellent negotiation skills in both organizational and technical contexts.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages.
• Expertise in distributed systems theory and practice.

Responsibilities

• Work with Business Development to prioritize, design and align on staffing for the highest impact small projects that unlock major value for our customers.
• Ensure that major, common customer needs are captured in organizational plans and the Product Roadmap.
• Act as part of the group with stewardship over architectural standards and guardrails within the Software organization, ensuring high engineering velocity, security, reliability and performance.
• Support the Customer Solutions Software Engineers in engagements with customers and act as escalation point for key discussions and design questions.
• Ensure Software roadmaps for missions are aligned with the strategic framework.
• Help to define training plans for software engineering.

Skills

Whole-system design

Holistic testing

Deployment strategy

Software engineering

Aerospace domain

Robotics domain

Programming languages

Distributed systems

Job description

Muon Space in Silicon Valley seeks a Principal Software Engineer to synthesize the full software architecture and roadmap with mission needs, guiding evolution of a common platform and partnering with Business Development, Product Management, Systems Engineering and Hardware. You will identify risks and opportunities to deliver customer value when needed.

The preferred location is San Jose, CA on-site three days per week, with other locations considered for the right candidate.