Senior Ground Software Engineer
Astro Mechanica15 hours ago
Base Salary
$175k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build the end-to-end ground data pipeline from aircraft radio telemetry ingestion through real-time processing, storage, backend APIs, business logic, and Mission Control visualization.
- Drive approximately one-second latency from aircraft transmission to operator display.
- Design fault-tolerant systems that withstand network failures, crashed services, and cloud-region outages without putting the aircraft at risk.
- Select and operate database technologies, including time-series databases, for flight telemetry.
- Build tools for monitoring aircraft health and commanding the plane.
- Collaborate with flight software and other engineering disciplines to define aircraft-to-ground interfaces.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or a science discipline.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Experience building real-time data or telemetry ingestion and processing systems.
- Experience implementing cloud stacks that ingest data, store it in a database, process it, and serve an application.
- Hands-on experience with time-series databases and understanding of database and data-ingestion trade-offs.
- Experience designing low-latency, high-reliability systems with fault tolerance for network and service failures.
- Proficiency with languages, frameworks, and API design used to expose database data to applications.
- Broad full-stack experience with greatest depth in backend and cloud systems.
- Front-end experience building web applications that query servers and render live data is a plus.
- Experience with telemetry from aircraft, launch vehicles, satellites, autonomous vehicles, or connected vehicle fleets; radio links; or mission-control and observability tooling is a plus.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
- 401(k) program and transparent stock option plan.
- Self-managed and flexible time-off policy including PTO, paid holidays, and sick time.
- Flexible work environment; the company states that working in the office five days per week is an essential part of the role.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Astro Mechanica
Astro Mechanica is a San Francisco–based aerospace company developing supersonic airframes and dual-use propulsion systems, including its proprietary Duality platform, for defense and commercial aviation. It plans to pair these systems with a new flight operations model to enable high-speed point-to-point transport, and is currently building adaptable high-speed systems for the U.S. government. Founded in 2021, it is privately held and backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz and United Airlines Ventures.