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Software Engineer, Satellite Operations

Apple· Hardware
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Hybrid (San Jose, CA), Hybrid (San Diego, CA)$150.4k - $277.6kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Software engineer role in the Satellite Connectivity Group to build automation, runtime infrastructure, and lights-out operation for a satellite constellation, interfacing between satellite network, cloud services, and operations partners to maintain connectivity services.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and develop mission automation software alongside our operations partners that enables lights-out operation of a satellite constellation
  • Be part of a 24/7 on-call rotation for those services; lead anomaly response and drive post-incident review
  • Author clear operational procedures for the mission that will be used by an operations team, interacting daily with the systems you build
  • Reason across large codebases, tracing behavior end to end to implement new features and root-cause issues
  • Work from design documents and ICDs to define and validate operations automation
  • Own continuous integration (CI) and CD pipelines for mission automation software services

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, including production Python
  • Experience with developing automation of (preferred) satellite constellations or fleets of autonomous vehicles/drones
  • Ability to independently navigate and reason about large, unfamiliar code repositories spanning both embedded and cloud-based software
  • Hands-on fluency with Linux and Mac OS, cloud service APIs, modern command-line usage and HTTP tooling
  • Experience working with CI and production CD pipelines for a software service
  • Experience using design documents and ICDs as foundations for an operational service
  • Export Compliance Requirement: This position requires access to U.S. export-controlled technology and technical data regulated under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Applicants must be eligible to access this export-controlled information.

Skills

Required:PythonLarge codebase navigationCI/CDLinuxDesign documents/ICDs

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation eligibility
  • Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan and stock awards
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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