Senior Software Engineer, Space Special Programs
Leads software engineering for Anduril's Space Special Programs team: architecting and building flight, ground-station, and embedded spacecraft software — embedded C, FPGA interfacing, computer vision/ML, RF protocols, and host-side GUI/database tools. Acts as both team lead and hands-on contributor on defense space systems in Chantilly, VA.
- Compensation
- $191K–$254K / yr
- Location
- Chantilly, Virginia, United States; Herndon, Virginia, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical/computer engineering, or similar technical field
- 8+ years software engineering experience developing embedded, host, and product-specific software
- 3+ years leading a software engineering team working on small spacecraft
- Experience developing subsystem requirements and interfaces, including mission systems and reusable software architectures
- Experience writing embedded C code, device drivers, and algorithms with limited computational and storage resources
- Experience writing host-level code for GUI, database interaction, and protocol interfaces/translators
- Experience on mature spacecraft development programs including operational and environmental testing
- Experience developing design artifacts (CoDR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.) and documentation
- Outstanding communication skills, including presentation of developed artifacts
- Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance
Nice to have
- M.S. in aerospace, mechanical, computer science, or similar technical field
- Demonstrated high ownership and autonomy across the cradle-to-grave lifecycle of a spacecraft or space system
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment with limited, broad Level-0 requirements
- 3+ years working in a classified environment
- Experience designing, integrating, and flying CubeSat spacecraft in LEO through GEO environments
Full description
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE TEAM
In the Space Special Programs team, we build spacecraft and space systems which serve a wide variety of functions in the space architecture. At a time when space superiority can no longer be taken for granted and with space systems proliferating at an incredible rate, the Space Special Programs team provides advanced, mission critical capabilities to our customer base to be able to more effectively operate and survive within this expanding environment with limited personnel. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Space Special Programs team develops, tests, deploys, and operates new, unique, space capabilities to drive mission success in challenging operational environments.
ABOUT THE JOB
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Chantilly, VA. In this role, you will be responsible for implementation of the full lifecycle of flight software, ground test software, ground station software – at both embedded and application levels. As the lead for the software engineering team you are expected to architect the software systems, understand the full range of embedded, host, communication, data storage, computer vision, FPGA-interfacing, and algorithm implementation tasks you and your team will need to accomplish. You are expected to be an individual contributor as well as the team lead. Your engineering team as a whole must span the capabilities of deeply embedded software design, implementation, and debugging, including data protocols, RF communication, machine learning, computer vision, and implementing control algorithms in a computationally-restricted environment; host side software for user interfaces, equipment interfaces, machine-to-machine communication, data analysis, display, compression and extraction to human-useable forms; and interfacing with existing Command and Control software and databases to integrate the spacecraft systems in a simple fashion. The embedded tasking will also include writing code to operate at the intersection of hardware, FPGA, and software. Additionally, you will be responsible for helping develop the system and mission designs & concepts, and, as the software development expert, for mentoring and growing your team.