Sr. Capabilities Developer - Defense Programs
AST SpaceMobile2 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 and its global partners are building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones. SpaceMobile service is expected to provide cost-effective, high-speed mobile broadband services with global coverage to all end-users, regardless of where they live, work or travel, without the need to purchase special equipment.