Software Engineer

What You'll Get To Do Test Strategy & Quality Engineering: Build and maintain automated test frameworks for front-end, back-end, and integrated systems. Develop end-to-end, integration, regression, and performance test suites. Oversee CI/CD-driven quality gates, coverage metrics, and continuous testing practices. Work with embedded, hardware test, and propulsion teams to validate cross-functional systems. Establish a scalable QA process for the team, including documentation and best practices.

Full‑Stack Development : Create user-focused front-end tools using React, Grafana, and other modern UI technologies. Build and maintain back-end services using GoLang and PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB. Collaborate with other Venus teams to design software that simplifies workflows and enhances productivity.

Integrated Hardware, Test, and Data Systems : Support development of hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems, test stands, and automation platforms that are controlling the development of future propulsion systems. Help unify data acquisition, telemetry, and real-time systems into robust, testable architectures. Contribute to ground software and embedded system integration as needed.

What You Have Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, plus a minimum of three years of relevant professional experience.

Experience building and maintain automated test frameworks (unit, integration, E2E)

Experience designing tests for distributed systems, microservices, or large data platforms.

Experience with React, JavaScript, CSS, and other modern front-end technologies.

Experience with fundamental CRUD operations for PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB.

Experience with GraphQL for API interactions.

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflow (GitLab), and DevOps testing practices.

Ability to write documentation define QA processes, and partner with cross-functional teams.

What Will Set You Apart Experience with large-scale QA environments or having built QA foundations from scratch.

Experience with GitLab pipelines, Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence), or systems engineering practices.

Experience with GoLang or Rust

Experience validating embedded systems, telemetry, or real-time hardware interfaces.

Experience with Hardware in the Loop (HIL) validation systems.

ITAR Requirements This position involves access to technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls. To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be able to meet ITAR requirements (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State). You can learn more about ITAR here.

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