Software Engineer, Space Special Programs
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$167k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, debug, integrate, test, and operate flight, ground test, ground station, and payload software.
- Implement deeply embedded software, device drivers, data protocols, RF communications, control algorithms, computer vision, and machine-learning-related capabilities in resource-constrained environments.
- Develop host-side user interfaces, equipment interfaces, machine-to-machine communications, data analysis, displays, compression, extraction, and database integrations.
- Interface software with hardware, FPGA systems, command-and-control software, and spacecraft databases.
- Translate mission requirements into efficient, reusable software architectures and products.
- Drive prototyping, design verification, qualification, integration, testing, and product maturity activities.
- Apply space-flight software design standards for fault detection and recovery, error checking, data redundancy, reliability, and manufacturability.
- Create design-review materials, design notes, system documentation, presentations, internal guidelines, and software best practices.
- Participate in mission and system design, cross-discipline design reviews, and customer-facing technical communications.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across engineering, product, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success while supporting multiple concurrent projects and customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical or computer engineering, or a similar engineering or technical field.
- 3–4+ years of software engineering experience directly developing embedded, host, and product-specific software.
- Experience developing subsystem requirements, interfaces, mission systems, and reusable software architectures.
- Experience writing embedded C, device drivers, and algorithms for limited computational and storage resources.
- Experience writing host-level code for GUIs, database interaction, and protocol interfaces or translators.
- Experience on mature spacecraft development programs, including operational and environmental testing.
- Experience producing spacecraft software design artifacts such as CoDR, SDR, PDR, CDR, and TRR materials, design notes, and implementation documentation.
- Outstanding communication skills, including presenting developed artifacts.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
- Preferred: master’s degree in aerospace, mechanical engineering, computer science, or a similar engineering or technical field.
- Preferred: ownership across the full cradle-to-grave lifecycle of a spacecraft or space system.
- Preferred: 3+ years of experience working in a classified environment.
- Preferred: experience designing, integrating, and flying Cubesat spacecraft operating in LEO through GEO environments.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package available at little to no cost.
- The role is based in Chantilly, Virginia.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
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About Anduril Industries
Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We are shaping the future of defense, transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We emphasize speed and results and control our products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off the shelf. Today, Anduril is in a rapid growth phase, deploying technology in diverse locations and developing path-making products that will change defense forever. We believe that everyone at Anduril can be a catalyst. Your perspective can change lives, and we want to help you make your mark. Our team includes thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in the real world, we want you at Anduril. With offices in Orange County, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Sydney, our reach is wide. Check out our careers page at https://www.anduril.com/careers or send us an email at careers@anduril.com.