Software Development and Integration Engineer
AST SpaceMobile3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Define software requirements, architecture concepts, integration strategies, and test plans with customers, systems engineers, and software development teams.
- Integrate software components, firmware, embedded applications, and third-party libraries into operational systems.
- Develop and maintain integration plans, procedures, automated deployment processes, build environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Create automation scripts for build, testing, deployment, and release workflows.
- Maintain software interfaces, integration dependencies, configuration requirements, build documentation, release records, and configuration management artifacts.
- Troubleshoot integration issues through root cause analysis and cross-functional collaboration.
- Support software verification, validation, system-level testing, software-hardware integration, and system performance validation.
- Participate in design reviews, technical discussions, continuous improvement initiatives, and customer-focused capability development.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least five years of experience in software integration, software engineering, DevOps, or related technical roles.
- Experience with complex software development and integration projects, build and release processes, and deployment workflows.
- Experience in aerospace, defense, telecommunications, embedded systems, or other highly regulated technical environments.
- Preferred experience with embedded systems, real-time operating systems, software-hardware integration, automation frameworks, deployment pipelines, test automation, and continuous integration environments.
- Familiarity with systems engineering processes, requirements management, verification activities, third-party software integration, configuration management, and release management.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; U.S. citizenship may be required for certain programs or contracts.
- Relevant technical certifications are a plus.
Benefits
- Standard office environment with occasional work in laboratory, integration, testing, or operational environments.
- Occasional travel may be required for program support, testing, training, or customer engagements.
About AST SpaceMobile
AST SpaceMobile builds a space-based cellular broadband network that connects directly to standard smartphones, selling capacity to mobile network operators and government users. The public company, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Midland, Texas, trades on NASDAQ. It has demonstrated direct 4G/5G voice and data links from its BlueWalker 3 test satellite and is developing commercial satellites to extend coverage to remote and underserved areas.