Senior Ground Software Engineer

The role

You will architect and build an end-to-end ground data pipeline for aircraft telemetry. This includes ingestion, real-time processing, storage, and front-end visualization in Mission Control.

What you will do

• Architect and build the end-to-end ground data pipeline
• Drive low latency across the entire system
• Design for fault tolerance
• Select and operate database technologies including time series databases
• Build tools for operators to monitor aircraft health and command the plane
• Keep the pipeline clean and simple
• Work with flight software and other engineering disciplines to define interfaces

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or a Science discipline
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience building real-time data or telemetry ingestion and processing systems
• Experience implementing a cloud stack that ingests data, stores it in a database, and processes it to serve an application
• Hands-on experience with time series databases
• Experience designing low-latency, high-reliability systems
• Proficiency in the languages, frameworks, and API design used to expose data from a database to applications
• Breadth across the stack, with the greatest depth on the backend and cloud side

Nice to have

• Front-end experience building web apps that query a server and render live data
• Experience with telemetry from physical systems (aircraft, launch vehicles, satellites, autonomous vehicles, or connected vehicle fleets), radio links, or mission control and observability tooling

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) program
• Transparent stock option plan
• Self-managed and flexible time-off policy
• PTO
• Paid holidays
• Sick time

About the company

Astro Mechanica is a vertically integrated aerospace company developing a scalable technology platform to power critical infrastructure, mission operations, and the future of flight. The team is a group of engineers with a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well.