Software Engineer, Space Special Programs

Anduril Industries; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Software Engineer for the Space Special Programs team in Chantilly, VA. You will own the full lifecycle of flight and ground software across embedded, host, and payload systems, including data protocols, RF communication, ML, CV, and control algorithms in constrained environments.

You will work with senior engineers to design, implement, test, and integrate spacecraft software, FPGA interfaces, and mission-critical components while contributing to system designs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical/computer engineering, or similar field.
• 3-4+ years software engineering experience developing embedded, host, and product software.
• Experience defining subsystem requirements and interfaces for mission systems with reusable software.
• Experience writing embedded C code and device drivers for resource-constrained environments.
• Experience writing host-level code for GUI, database interaction, and protocol interfaces.
• Experience maturing spacecraft development programs including testing and environmental exposure.
• Strong communication skills for presenting artifacts and designs.
• U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain TS security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop flight, ground, and payload software to meet mission requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across space systems and software domains.
• Develop and maintain software design artifacts and documentation.
• Support design reviews (CoDR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR) and ensure traceability of algorithms.

Skills

Embedded C

Device drivers

GUI programming

Database interfaces

Protocols/translators

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

MS in aerospace/engineering/CS

Tools

FPGA interfacing

RF communication

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

In the Space Special Programs team, we build spacecraft and space systems which serve a wide variety of functions in the space architecture. At a time when space superiority can no longer be taken for granted and with space systems proliferating at an incredible rate, the Space Special Programs team provides advanced, mission critical capabilities to our customer base to be able to more effectively operate and survive within this expanding environment with limited personnel. Working across product, engineering, sales,logistics, operations, and mission success, the Space Special Programs team develops, tests, deploys, andoperatesnew, unique, space capabilities to drive mission success in challenging operational environments.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Chantilly, VA. In this role, you will be responsible for implementation of the full lifecycle of flight software, ground test software, ground station software at both embedded and application levels. You will work closely with senior engineers to develop software systems across the full range of embedded, host, communication, data storage, computer vision, FPGA-interfacing, and algorithm implementation tasks. You are expected to be a strong individual contributor on the team. Your work will span capabilities including deeply embedded software design, implementation, and debugging, including data protocols, RF communication, machine learning, computer vision, and implementing control algorithms in a computationally-restricted environment; host side software for user interfaces, equipment interfaces, machine-to-machine communication, data analysis, display, compression and extraction to human-useable forms; and interfacing with existing Command and Control software and databases to integrate the spacecraft systems in a simple fashion. The embedded tasking will also include writing code to operate at the intersection of hardware, FPGA, and software. Additionally, you will contribute to system and mission designs & concepts, and have opportunities to learn from and collaborate with experienced team members.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Work with a cross-functional team to designmarket leading hardware-basedproducts
• Drive product maturity through rapid prototyping, design verification, and qualification activities
• Apply modern space-flightsoftwaredesign standardsand guidelines(e.g.fault detection and recovery, error checking,data redundancy, etc.)to create high-reliability, highly manufacturable systems, and a team which implements them.
• Design and develop flight, ground, and payload systems to implement the given mission requirements, and effectively communicate these goals and specific tasks 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-reusableforlowest costfuture development
• Help establishing internal guidelines and best practices for space flight software design, test, manufacture, and operations
• Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviewsand develop customer-facing system design documentation and presentations
• Help drive development,integrationand test activities to meet schedule
• Work in a fast-paced environment, having to juggle multiple concurrent projects and customers

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical / computer engineering, or similar engineering or technical field
• 3-4+ years Software Engineering Experience directly developing a combination of embedded, host, and product-specific software
• Experience developing subsystem requirements and interfaces; including mission systemsand 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 neededfor interfacingdifferent partsof spacecraft systems together (in both cases of having an explicit ICD and havingvery little information)
• Experience on maturespacecraft development programs including operationalandenvironmentaltesting.
• Experience developing variousdesign 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 andable to obtain andmaintaina U.S. Top Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• M.S. in aerospace, mechanical, computer science or similar engineering or technical field
• Demonstrated High ownership and autonomy across theentire cradle-to-grave lifecycle of a spacecraft or space system.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an extremely fast-paced, nimble, environment withprograms that have limited, broad,Level-0requirements
• 3+ years working in a classified environment
• Experience designing, integrating, and flyingCubesatspacecraft meant tooperatein LEO through GEO environments

US Salary Range

$167,000—$220,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril’s total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

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