Software Engineer, Space Systems Tooling & Pipelines

Meridian Space; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Meridian Space in Long Beach, California, is building a new model for sovereign space infrastructure through software tooling that accelerates engineering development. You will create infrastructure for automated testing, data collection, analysis and reporting, and pipelines to organize trade studies with config management and version control.

The role emphasizes autonomous work, strong Python skills, Linux proficiency, and experience with data formats, validation, and unit/integration testing

Qualifications

• B.S. in computer science, software engineering, or related technical field.
• Strong proficiency in modern Python with typing, testing, packaging, and library design.
• Comfort with YAML/JSON and data validation.
• Proficiency with Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience writing and maintaining unit/integration tests.
• Proficiency on Linux and the command line.
• Ability to build tools that other engineers adopt and work autonomously.
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop software tools that accelerate, streamline and organize engineering development.
• Create infrastructure for high volume automated testing, data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Build pipelines to organize engineering trade studies via config management, version control, automated analysis workflows, visualization and comparison tools.

Skills

Python

Autonomy

Communication

Linux

Unit testing

Integration testing

YAML/JSON

Git

CI/CD

Data validation

Structured data formats

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

NumPy

SciPy

pandas

Plotly

matplotlib

Streamlit

Airflow

Dagster

Docker

SCPI

VISA

PyVISA

LXI

InfluxDB

TimescaleDB

MLflow

Job description

Meridian Space in Long Beach, California, is building a new model for sovereign space infrastructure through software tooling that accelerates engineering development. You will create infrastructure for automated testing, data collection, analysis and reporting, and pipelines to organize trade studies with config management and version control.

The role emphasizes autonomous work, strong Python skills, Linux proficiency, and experience with data formats, validation, and unit/integration testing