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Staff Software Engineer, Space Special Programs

Anduril· AFS : Space Engineering
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Hybrid (Chantilly, VA; Herndon, VA)$220k - $292kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer to lead and implement full lifecycle software for flight, ground test, and ground station systems across embedded and host domains, with team leadership responsibilities and exposure to spaceflight software design, verification, and mission integration.

Responsibilities

  • Work with a cross-functional team to design market leading hardware-based products
  • Drive product maturity through rapid prototyping, design verification, and qualification activities
  • Apply modern space-flight software design standards to create high-reliability, highly manufacturable systems, and a team which implements them
  • Architect and design flight, ground, and payload systems to generically implement mission requirements and communicate goals to the team
  • Operate as a member of the team and a resource for them when they are stuck
  • Translate mission needs into efficient and reusable software products
  • Lead the team in establishing internal guidelines and best practices for space flight software design, test, manufacture, and operations
  • Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews and develop customer-facing system design documentation and presentations
  • Help drive development, integration and test activities to meet schedule
  • Work in a fast-paced environment juggling multiple concurrent projects and customers

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical / computer engineering, or similar engineering or technical field
  • 10+ years Software Engineering Experience directly developing a combination of embedded, host, and product-specific software
  • 3+ years of leading a software engineering team working on small spacecraft
  • Experience developing subsystem requirements and interfaces; including mission systems and developing software architectures to meet those requirements with reusable software
  • Experience writing embedded C code, device drivers, and implementing algorithms with limited computational & storage resources
  • Experience writing host level code for GUI, database interaction, and protocol interfaces/translators needed for interfacing different parts of spacecraft systems together
  • Experience on mature spacecraft development programs including operational and environmental testing
  • Experience developing design artifacts (CoDR, SDR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc) and related documentation
  • Outstanding communication skills to include presentation of developed artifacts
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Embedded software engineeringC/C++ programmingSystem architecture and designLeadership / people managementCommunication and documentation

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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