Staff Software Engineer

What You'll Actually Build

Hyperdrive: The AI-First Single Pane of Glass

• Architect the future of aerospace enterprise operations—building the unified application that accelerates and automates the entire enterprise.
• Build real-time systems that visualize hardware manufacturing status, track supply chain logistics, and aggregate financial metrics into intuitive dashboards.
• Create interfaces that give Turion employees "superpowers," allowing them to manage complex aerospace business processes with the ease of a modern consumer app.
• Design systems that scale from our current operations to supporting a massive fleet of spacecraft and hundreds of employees.

Enterprise Intelligence & Automation

• Support AI-first operations — Integrate LLMs, agentic workflows, and RAG architectures to automate routine enterprise tasks.
• Build systems that proactively identify supply chain bottlenecks, optimize manufacturing schedules, and synthesize engineering reports using AI.
• Scale to millions of data points — Build hyper-performance pipelines tracking everything from individual spacecraft components to company-wide OKRs.
• Universal Automation Platform — Create internal APIs that let any Turion team add AI capabilities to their specific workflows, making autonomous operations the company standard.

The Aerospace Operating System

• Build the end-to-end platform powering Turion's internal operations and manufacturing lines.
• Design APIs for internal data tasking that let engineers request operational insights as easily as calling an Uber.
• Architect data lakes and processing systems that handle terabytes of manufacturing, test, and enterprise data daily.
• Build the Stripe/AWS of our internal operations—the platform every Turion team will use to execute their mission.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the software engineering process from concept to production systems, setting technical direction for the products that operate the enterprise.
• Mentor and guide a team of engineers building the most critical internal tools for a rapidly scaling space company.
• Engage with hardware engineers, supply chain managers, and executives to understand their needs, turning operational bottlenecks into elegant, AI-driven software solutions.
• Architect business-critical systems including Hyperdrive, AI inference platforms, and enterprise data pipelines.
• Build and maintain APIs that let any internal developer integrate enterprise data into their specific applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Ground Software, Flight Software, Hardware, and Finance.
• Drive architectural decisions for enterprise systems that must scale rapidly and remain highly reliable.
• Deliver solutions that simplify complex operations, making aerospace manufacturing and business logic as intuitive as deploying to AWS.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience, with a track record of leading projects or teams.
• Expertise in full-stack development and proven ability to design, build, and test complex, data-heavy systems.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript, with strong API development experience.
• Experience integrating LLMs, AI agents, or modern machine learning tools into production applications.
• PostgreSQL, Snowflake, or data warehouse expertise—our enterprise generates a massive amount of operational data.
• Advanced React knowledge for building rich, complex single-page applications and dashboards.
• Kubernetes experience.
• Experience deploying applications on Azure or AWS.
• Experience with data engineering, ETL pipelines, and real-time processing.