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Lanteris Space LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intuitive Machines, is hiring a Spacecraft Systems Integration and Test Development Engineer to join our team in our Palo Alto office. This is a satellite assembly, integration and test (AIT) position responsible for the front-end test development work of unique and complex spacecraft.
You will be responsible for working with Systems, Subsystems, and Flight Software (FSW) engineers throughout a program's lifecycle. This includes: ensuring that the spacecraft is designed for testability and manufacturability during the program's design phase; ensuring that unique and updated designs are captured properly and flowed down for AIT; and developing test scripts and troubleshooting on the spacecraft as needed.
Intuitive Machines is a leading space infrastructure company that builds spacecraft, connects networks, and operates infrastructure-as-a-service for commercial, civil, and national security customers. With a proven track record across the space domain, the Company, through organic growth and portfolio expansion, has built over 300 spacecraft, delivered over 260 kilograms of payload to the lunar surface, and provided precision navigation expertise that has guided spacecraft across our solar system.
Responsibilities:
- Working with Systems, Subsystems, and FSW engineers to identify new requirements that will affect AIT, and actively participate in development of the V&V plan.
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary engineering teams to ensure unique designs and deviation from heritage are properly captured to facilitate efficient development and/or updates of test scripts and procedures.
- Create electrical bus test script flows and procedures for new subsystems/functionality.
- Develop and/or update test scripts based on the Bus Test Requirements Document
- Review/Verify test scripts and procedures comply with the test requirements.
- Use engineering analysis to troubleshoot anomalies and provide solutions.
- Learn and understand all spacecraft subsystem functions, interfaces, and physical hardware.
- Develop stand-alone software and tools to support development and spacecraft testing.
- Create Process Improvements within the Electrical/Comm Test Engineering Department
- Provide specialty training internally and to outside groups.
Minimum Requirements:
- Must be a U.S. citizen
- Minimum of 2 of relevant experience in satellite design and testing obtained through educational training and/or on-the-job experience in a related field.
- B.S. degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics or a related field. Four years of additional experience may be substituted for a degree.
- Experience with satellite command and telemetry databases.
- Experience with Microsoft Office required.
- Experience with C++, VBA, Python, Java script, or TCL
Preferred Qualifications:
- Highly skilled with Microsoft Office.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Strong scripting and requirements definition background.
In support of pay transparency at Lanteris Space Systems, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.
The base pay for this position within California is: $82,000.00 - $136,000.00 annually.For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. More information on our benefits will be shared with candidates as they move forward in the recruitment process.
The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.
The date of posting can be found on the Lanteris Space Systems Career page at the top of each job posting.
To apply, submit your application via the Lanteris Space Systems Career page.
Lanteris Space Systems values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in systems development engineer jobs.
- Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or TeamCity
- Experience designing or maintaining large-scale build systems using Bazel, CMake, or Make
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or Go
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure platforms including AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
Tips for Your Systems Development Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to the stack
Systems development engineer roles vary widely by tech stack. Rewrite your skills section for each application to mirror the exact tools listed, whether that's Bazel, CMake, Jenkins, or Terraform, so your resume clears automated screening before a human reads it.
Showcase measurable build improvements
Hiring teams want proof you cut build times or reduced flaky tests. Quantify your impact on CI pipelines, artifact management, or deployment frequency. Even a rough order-of-magnitude improvement is more compelling than a list of tools you've used.
Filter by team type, not just title
Some systems development engineer openings sit on developer-experience teams, others on release engineering or platform infrastructure. Read the team description carefully. The day-to-day work, the codebase size, and the interview process differ significantly across these contexts.
Apply early to roles that fit
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Prepare a systems design answer for build architecture
Expect at least one interview question on designing a large-scale build or release system from scratch. Practice explaining trade-offs between monorepo and polyrepo setups, caching strategies, and distributed build execution, since these come up repeatedly in systems development engineer loops.
Negotiate scope into your offer, not just salary
Once you have an offer, ask about ownership of roadmap items and cross-team influence. Systems development engineers who own meaningful infrastructure projects advance faster, so the scope of your first project matters as much as the starting level or compensation band.
Systems Development Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most systems development engineers?
The companies hiring the most systems development engineers right now include Amazon, Amazon Web Services, and Ford Motor Company, with the largest share of openings in Washington, Virginia, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated at companies with large internal developer platforms or complex distributed build infrastructure.
How many systems development engineer jobs are remote?
About 47% of systems development engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the infrastructure-heavy nature of the role. Sub-areas focused on CI/CD tooling, developer experience, and internal platform work tend to have the highest remote availability, while roles tied to on-premises hardware or classified government systems are more likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a systems development engineer?
Start by building fluency in at least one scripting language, typically Python or Bash, and get hands-on experience with a CI/CD platform through personal or open-source projects. From there, deepen your understanding of build systems and dependency management, contribute to developer-tooling projects to demonstrate real impact, and pursue roles on platform or release engineering teams where you can own infrastructure end-to-end.
Can you get a systems development engineer job with little experience?
Yes, entry-level systems development engineer roles exist, but they typically expect demonstrated familiarity with build pipelines or scripting even without formal job titles. Contributing to open-source build tooling, publishing automation scripts publicly, or completing an internship on a platform team signals the practical mindset hiring managers look for, making experience type more important than years on a resume.
What does the systems development engineer interview process look like?
The process usually includes an initial recruiter screen, a technical phone interview covering scripting or build-system concepts, and a multi-stage loop with coding exercises, systems design questions focused on build or release architecture, and a behavioral round. Some companies add a take-home exercise involving a real CI configuration or pipeline optimization problem, so expect to demonstrate both code quality and infrastructure reasoning.
Where can I find and apply to systems development engineer jobs?
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