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Millennium Space Systems · 1 day ago

Ground Software Engineer (Mid-Career)

Chantilly, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$137K/yr - $201K/yr

5+ years exp

Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company delivers affordable, high-performance space systems for exacting customers. As a Ground Software Engineer, you will cover spacecraft production, integration, and test, focusing on dispositioning and root causing non-conformances and issues, while working closely with various engineering teams.

AerospaceSpace Travel

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Leads the design, development, integration, testing, and delivery of large-scale ground software and mission control systems

Interacts with other Millennium staff to support testing on components, subsystems, and spacecraft in test configurations

Integrates Millennium software applications into Government-furnished software and infrastructure

Executes integrated system test events bridging Millennium-developed products and Government-furnished systems

Implements specific mission data processing applications into existing systems to support payloads and end data users

Supports software testing and installation in classified environments

Guides junior developers through development tasks, troubleshooting exercises

Plans and executes validation/verification testing

Contributes to ground software or tool development by completing larger feature requests, taking ownership of larger software modules, analysis packages, and workflows

Qualification

PythonBackend developmentDatabase interactionGitLab CI/CDContainerizationAgile developmentUnit testingInteractive UIsTS/SCI clearanceTechnical communication

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field

Five (5) or more years of experience designing and developing software in a production environment

Demonstrated experience writing scripts and backend software applications in Python

Demonstrated experience with Python webserver frameworks (Twisted, Flask, FastAPI) and building RESTful web services in conjunction with message broker architectures

Demonstrated experience with backend development interacting with relational, time-series, and document databases (PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, MongoDB)

Comfortable building interactive UIs using Javascript frameworks

Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices

Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration practices using Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes

Experience with unit testing, integration tests, and end-to-end testing

Comfortable communicating technical details verbally and in writing

Experience with iterative and agile software development

Ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance