Mission Engineer

🕒 August 22

🏄 California, District of Columbia – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

💵 $150k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Aalyria

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51 - 200 employees

📡 Telecommunications

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Telecommunications • Enterprise • SaaS

Aalyria is a company dedicated to creating, organizing, and managing the world's most advanced networks to enable ubiquitous connectivity at the speed of discovery. It utilizes atmospheric laser communications technology and a software platform originally developed by Alphabet. Aalyria's platform orchestrates networks across land, sea, air, space, and beyond. Key technological components include Tightbeam, a free space optics technology, and Spacetime, a software platform for network orchestration. Aalyria is backed by significant investors and has engaged in various high-profile projects, including working with NASA and developing 5G/6G networking platforms.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain high-fidelity system models within Spacetime to orchestrate dynamic wireless communication networks • Design and write production-ready adapter layers, primarily in Python or Go, to connect Spacetime with customer hardware • Create and optimize data schemas using Protobuf, JSON, and gRPC to map complex external network topologies • Perform wireless communication system link budget analyses, wave propagation modeling, and coverage simulations • Act as the tier-3 escalation lead for live networks, diagnosing and resolving complex system integration issues • Collaborate with Product and Software Engineering teams to translate custom integration patterns into reusable product features • Serve as the technical bridge between communications physics and the software orchestration layer • Ensure Spacetime system models are technically integrated, highly performant, and operationally resilient within live customer environments

🎯 Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals paired with a solid understanding of physical-layer communications • Hands-on software development experience • Comfort passing an entry-level SWE coding assessment • Experience with wireless communication systems, including RF path loss, propagation, network topology, and link budgets • Practical experience developing or working with system/network simulation and modeling tools • B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, typically backed by 3+ years of professional engineering experience • Experience with software-defined networking (SDN), BGP, or cloud infrastructure environments (GCP/AWS) preferred • Experience delivering high-stakes technical integrations for defense, aerospace, or commercial telecommunications enterprise clients preferred • Must qualify as a U.S. person, be eligible to access export-controlled information without requiring export authorization, or be eligible and reasonably likely to obtain necessary export authorization

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development and advancement • Flexible working arrangements including hybrid remote/in-office schedules • 401(k) • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Health insurance • Life insurance • Paid time off • Equity options