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Mission Systems Software Test Engineer II

Reston, VA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-30

Core

Test ground and flight software within a software integration environment to ensure deployed software supports mission operations.

Role type

Mission Systems Software Test Engineer

Builds

Ground and flight software systems for space vehicles and ground operations

Domain

Aerospace / Spaceflight / Software Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Software testing and test script development, Spacecraft operations (command & control, mission planning, flight dynamics), Cloud computing (AWS/Azure), Network & communications protocols, High-level programming languages (Python, Golang, Rust, C++)

Preferred skills

End-to-end testing of large complex systems, Requirement definition and V&V, LLM software development tools, Version control (Git), Configuration and product data management tools

Technologies

AWS, Azure, Python, Golang, Rust, C++, Git, Confluence, JIRA

Responsibilities

Create effective test plans and scripts, Document test configurations and results, Identify and report software bugs, Plan and perform mission system product update cycles and validation exercises, Conduct testing of ground system functionality and measure performance, Perform flight software to ground systems integration and test

Seniority

Mid-level IC

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