Founding Software Engineer

About the role

They say the best deployable is no deployable, but we believe large deployable mechanisms are the future for large infrastructure in space.

At Beyond Reach Labs, we are designing and building the largest deployable structures ever flown to space. We believe data-driven simulation is key to the design, validation, and iterative improvement of these structures.

As a Founding Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building critical internal engineering tools that enable and accelerate the design and analysis process. As an early engineer, you will be responsible for a large scope of software engineering, including the development and maintenance of front-end tools that help with visualization and analysis, back-end data systems to collect and organize large amounts of test and simulation data, and standing up the compute infrastructure required to run large-scale simulations.

Key Responsibilities:

Tool Development

Quickly deploy new internal web-based tools for data analysis or visualization that empower our mechanical engineers to make better decisions and streamline workflows

Communicate with our leadership and engineering teams to understand needs and requirements, proactively suggesting ways these can be met with the right software tools, whether they are purchased or developed internally

Work with high performance scientific computing software to improve performance, robustness, metric reporting, and ease-of-use

Compute Infrastructure

Spin up and maintain compute capability for large-scale simulations that can take hours or days to run, benefit from live reporting, and flexible post-run analysis and visualization tooling

Deploy performant data storage solutions for simulation and test data that allow engineers to easily access historical data and incorporate it into their own analysis tools

Ensure good CI coverage while minimizing friction for non-software engineers working within a shared codebase

Develop, maintain, and improve pipelines for deploying internal tools quickly and safely

Real-to-Sim Development (nice-to-have)

Work with the simulation team to develop data and compute pipelines for improving simulation fidelity by leveraging data collected from tests and actual customer deployments

Develop innovative solutions and algorithms for data-driven improvement of our in-house simulation models

Build solutions that scale to many programs, customers, and individual products

Basic Qualifications

Either:

Bachelor’s degree or greater in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering, or

3-5 years experience working as a Software Engineer

Knowledge of software best practices across front-end, back-end, and cloud infrastructure

Experience developing software tools from 0 to 1

Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and take project ownership of projects with unclear or frequently-changing requirements

Preferred Qualifications

5 years experience in hardware-focused engineering organizations

Experience working on high-performance scientific computing projects

Experience working on sim-to-real solutions in aerospace or robotics companies