# Software Engineer - Simulations (III)

About Lodestar Lodestar's mission is to develop the first "Protect and Defend" capability for high-value space assets in orbit. Our flagship product MITHRIL is the critical hardware & software necessary to augment any off-the-shelf spacecraft with the ability to autonomously detect, characterise, and reversibly neutralise orbital threats. By building on the proven space heritage of our best-in-class satellite-bus partners and fully integrating MITHRIL as a single platform, we deliver a fully autonomous end-to-end protection spacecraft service. About the Job At Lodestar, as a Simulations Software Engineer, you'll build the environment in which MITHRIL is developed, tested and proven. Every autonomy behaviour we fly is validated in simulation first, which makes the simulator one of the highest-leverage pieces of software in the company: if it isn't faithful, nothing downstream can be trusted. You'll develop high-fidelity sensor and environment models in Unreal Engine, stand up the software- and hardware-in-the-loop benches that our flight software runs against, and design the distributed services that let scenarios run reproducibly across machines and in CI. You'll work directly with

- **Id**: 878831
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lodestarspace-software-engineer-iiiiii-simulations>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Los Angeles, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-07T12:20:48Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T15:29:12Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 65
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5412
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Retirement plans, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space Services, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 716996
- **Name**: Lodestar
- **Domain**: lodestar.space
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lodestar-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 136000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **Unreal Engine** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **CUDA** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Gazebo** — Optional: yes
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **gRPC** — Optional: yes
- **Isaac Sim** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **ROS2** — Optional: yes
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: yes
- **Zenoh** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 65

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T22:59:16Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-23T00:18:22Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-23T18:56:53Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 31
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.699
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 64
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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