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Software Development Engineer, Automated Vehicle Testing joins the Automated Vehicle Testing team to build core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone for automated satellite testing operations. This role involves developing production-quality code across front-end interfaces, backend services, data infrastructure, and AI/ML layers to transform satellite telemetry into actionable decisions. The engineer will design intelligent systems to detect anomalies, build agents to trace root causes across satellite buses and ground stations, and implement natural language systems for querying system states. Key technical requirements include experience with C#, C++, Java, or Perl, along with skills in object-oriented design and AWS tools. The work focuses on the technical challenge of managing high-cardinality datasets, building S3-based data lakes with metadata management, and creating low-latency visualization platforms to monitor complex satellite behaviors and manufacturing scaling.
What does a Software Development Engineer earn?
Median $169050 from 203 postings across 17 companies.
Develop production-quality code for front-end interfaces, backend services, data infrastructure, and AI/ML layers.
Build intelligent systems to ingest telemetry and detect real-time anomalies or predict failures in satellite hardware.
Create automated agents to trace root causes across satellite buses, ground stations, and on-premises equipment.
Design natural language systems that allow engineers to query complex system states using intuitive interactions.
Implement retrieval systems using vector embeddings and sparse representations for semantic search across petabytes of data.
Build a scalable S3-based data lake with automated metadata management and end-to-end lineage tracking.
Develop low-latency data visualization platforms for test engineers to monitor high-cardinality satellite datasets.
What we're looking for
Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or granted asylum/refugee status for export control compliance.
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience focusing on design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
1+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed systems using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics, or natural language processing (preferred).