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As a Software Development Engineer II on the Leo Space Engineering Applications team, you will design, develop, and maintain scalable services and tools for AI-assisted electrical design of next-generation satellite hardware. You will own end-to-end delivery of features, including schematic design review, connectivity queries, component intelligence, and design vault integration. Your daily work involves building and optimizing data pipelines and APIs to support electrical engineering workflows, ensuring traceability from design versions to specific components. You will collaborate with hardware engineers to translate domain needs into software solutions, integrating tools like Siemens Xpedition with internal platform services. Required technical skills include experience with C#, C++, Java, or Perl, along with Object Oriented Design, distributed software systems, and AWS deployment. You will solve complex problems in satellite product development processes.
What does a Software Development Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $169050 from 129 postings across 6 companies.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable services for AI-assisted electrical design tools.
Own end-to-end delivery of features from technical design through AWS deployment.
Build and optimize data pipelines and APIs to support electrical engineering workflows.
Drive integration between engineering tools like Siemens Xpedition and internal platform services.
Develop AI-driven capabilities for automated schematic review and natural-language design queries.
Troubleshoot production issues to ensure high availability and reliability of platform services.
Translate hardware engineering requirements into robust and maintainable software solutions.
What we're looking for
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, refugee, or granted asylum.
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 for new and existing systems.
1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
1+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates.
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