Sr. Capabilities Developer - Defense Programs
AST SpaceMobile3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, and deploy software capabilities for communications, spectrum awareness, signal analysis, and secure networking applications.
- Build backend data processing pipelines, automated analytics workflows, and operator-facing applications.
- Develop signal monitoring, anomaly detection, data analysis, reporting, signal processing, detection, classification, and geolocation capabilities.
- Develop applications that interface with communications networks, data platforms, and operational infrastructure.
- Contribute to secure communications solutions, resilient network architectures, system integration, testing, deployment, configuration control, version management, and CI/CD processes.
- Design user interfaces, dashboards, and visualization tools for operational users.
- Create technical documentation, design artifacts, test plans, and user guides.
- Participate in technical reviews, architecture discussions, capability demonstrations, proposal development, technical solution planning, and capability enhancement initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, communications engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least five years of experience in software development, systems integration, communications systems, capabilities development, or a related technical field.
- Experience delivering software across the full development lifecycle from requirements through deployment and sustainment.
- Experience developing applications in complex technical or mission-critical environments.
- Proficiency in software development, systems integration, and operational deployment practices.
- Preferred experience in government, defense, aerospace, telecommunications, or other highly regulated industries.
- Preferred experience with communications systems, cellular technologies, wireless networking, spectrum management, signal processing, data analytics, sensor data exploitation, geolocation, positioning, tracking, or situational awareness technologies.
- Preferred familiarity with LTE, 5G, secure communications, resilient network architectures, containerization, orchestrated deployments, and cloud-based or on-premises infrastructure.
- Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance is preferred; eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance is required.
- U.S. citizenship may be required based on program and contract requirements.
Benefits
- Occasional travel may be required for customer engagements, program support, testing activities, or training.
- Work may occur in office, laboratory, integration, testing, or operational environments.
- U.S. government security clearance eligibility and U.S. citizenship may be required for certain programs.
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.