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About the Role
York Space Systems is seeking a leader to own and manage simulation tools products, ensuring a clear roadmap, release cadence, versioned models, and documented interfaces. This role involves maintaining the overall vision of the simulation domain, aligning it with stakeholder requirements, and fostering the growth of simulation products and the engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of 8-12 engineers, including tasking, technical direction, career growth, and performance management.
- Set priorities across three simulation products, working through designated engineering leads.
- Own simulation product roadmaps, release cadences, and versioning strategies.
- Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to SIT leadership and internal stakeholders.
- Interact with stakeholders and customers to gather feedback and requirements.
- Implement and improve software development, testing, and deployment practices.
- Ensure quality of product documentation, user guides, training, and model validation records.
- Manage and monitor releases, ensuring product stability for deployment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or greater in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience leading or mentoring engineers.
- Demonstrated development experience in both Python and C++, including performance-sensitive code.
- Working knowledge of physics-based modeling, numerical methods, or control systems.
- Experience leading others in software development.
- Experience designing, building, deploying, and operating software applications in a production environment.
- Experience with software product release processes.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to set priorities across multiple concurrent products and stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs, priorities, and progress clearly to both engineers and leadership.
- Experience with writing test documentation.
- Capable of managing multiple tasks while delivering according to program milestones and release commitments.
- Willingness to work full-time in Austin, TX office.
Skills
- Python
- C++
- Physics-based modeling
- Numerical methods
- Control systems
- Software development
- Software product release processes
- Test documentation
- Orbital mechanics
- Attitude dynamics
- GN&C
- Hardware interface emulation
- Spacecraft bus protocols
- Simulation model validation
- API design and versioning
- Spacecraft flight software
- Avionics architectures
- Real-time simulation frameworks
- Discrete-event simulation frameworks
- Docker
- Containerization
- Software-in-the-Loop (SITL)
- Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) test systems
- System-level automated testing
- Agentic software development workflows
- AI-assisted software development workflows
- Flight hardware interfacing
- Space domain knowledge
- Satellite operations
- UDP/TCP networking concepts
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a related field
- 3+ years of experience leading or mentoring engineers
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or greater in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or related field
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Company holidays, floating holidays, and sick time
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous 401(k) match
About the Company
- York Space Systems was founded to radically improve spacecraft affordability and reliability, transforming, and enabling next-generation space mission operations worldwide.
- York is one of the most innovative aerospace companies, specializing in end-to-end customer solutions and the rapid production of spacecraft platforms.
- York’s complete Space Segment Solution includes spacecraft production, payload integration, system integration & test, launch services, ground segment services, and mission operations, enabling customers to leverage York’s existing technology solutions to get to orbit rapidly and responsively.
Equal Opportunity
- York Space Systems provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, military or protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
- Must have permanent authorization to work in the United States.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions or employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
- YORK SPACE SYSTEMS IS AN EEO EMPLOYER.