Satellite Connectivity Automation Engineer

Apple Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock purchase plan

Discretionary restricted stock unit

Relocation assistance

Medical and dental coverage

Tuition reimbursement

Bonus potential

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a software engineer to build automation and runtime infrastructure for a satellite connectivity network. You will join the Satellite Connectivity Group to automate and operate services used for Emergency SOS, Roadside assistance, and Messages via satellite.

You will work across embedded and cloud platforms, own CI/CD pipelines, and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation with on-call incident response and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including production Python.
• Experience with automation of satellite constellations or fleets of autonomous vehicles.
• Ability to navigate large codebases spanning embedded and cloud-based software.
• Hands-on fluency with Linux and Mac OS, cloud service APIs, HTTP tooling.
• Experience with CI and production CD pipelines for a software service.
• Experience using design documents and ICDs as foundations for an operational service.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop mission automation software enabling lights-out operation of a satellite constellation.
• Be part of a 24/7 on-call rotation for those services; lead anomaly response and post-incident review.
• Author clear operational procedures for the mission used by an operations team.
• Reason across large codebases to implement new features and root-cause issues.
• Work from design documents and ICDs to define and validate operations automation.
• Own CI and CD pipelines for mission automation software services.

Skills

Python (production)

Automation tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud and embedded software

Linux & macOS

On-call / incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / EE / Aerospace

Tools

ICDs

Git

Linux

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a software engineer to build automation and runtime infrastructure for a satellite connectivity network. You will join the Satellite Connectivity Group to automate and operate services used for Emergency SOS, Roadside assistance, and Messages via satellite.

You will work across embedded and cloud platforms, own CI/CD pipelines, and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation with on-call incident response and runbooks.