About Careertakes

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Role Overview

Confidential Client is hiring a Software Engineer to build and maintain engineering-scale tools that accelerate constellation design, testing, and evaluation workflows. You will develop infrastructure for automated testing, data collection and analysis, reproducible pipelines for trade studies, and visualization tools that engineering teams rely on daily.

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What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain Python-based tools, libraries, and services that streamline engineering workflows.
• Design infrastructure for high-volume automated testing: capture results, store time-series data, and make outcomes queryable.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows to support reproducible analyses and deployments.
• Create pipelines and tooling to organize and evaluate engineering trade studies (config management, versioned runs, automated comparisons).
• Develop visualization and reporting tools (dashboards, plots, web UIs) for engineering review and decision-making.
• Integrate and automate lab test equipment where needed (instrument control, data ingestion).
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure the tools you build are adopted and operationalized.
• Work autonomously while exercising sound engineering judgment in a fast-paced startup environment.

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Basic Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong proficiency in modern Python (type hints, testing, packaging, idiomatic library design).
• Comfortable with structured data formats and validation (YAML, JSON, pydantic or equivalent).
• Proficient with Git workflows and CI/CD tooling.
• Experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests.
• Proficiency on Linux and the command line.
• Demonstrated ability to build tools that other engineers actually adopt.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and make pragmatic engineering trade-offs.

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Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years professional software development experience.
• Experience building data pipelines around automated test systems (capture, indexing, queryability).
• Hands-on experience automating lab test equipment and instrument control (SCPI, VISA, PyVISA, IVI, GPIB, LXI).
• Familiarity with the scientific Python stack: NumPy, SciPy, pandas.
• Experience with visualization libraries and dashboard frameworks (matplotlib, Plotly, Streamlit, Dash, Panel).
• Experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or similar).
• Familiarity with time-series or experiment-tracking systems (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, MLflow, or similar).
• Containerization experience (Docker) and reproducible environment management.
• Prior experience in fast-moving startup engineering environments is a plus.

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Location & Security Requirements

This role is based in Long Beach, CA. Confidential Client must comply with U.S. space technology export regulations (including ITAR). All applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or a protected individual as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.15), or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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