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We are building a global network of phased array ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions such as national security, global connectivity, and disaster response. With a vertically integrated approach, Northwood designs, builds, and rapidly deploys scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions. If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it.\nRole\nNorthwood engineers and operators run hardware and software across a global network of antenna ground stations and the cloud services behind them. No one sells a platform for running a network like this at scale, so Northwood builds its own.\nPlatform Engineering builds the software that takes Northwood products from first prototype to full operation. That covers how code is built, tested, and released, how every site and service is monitored, and how hardware in remote locations is brought online, updated, and kept healthy. Every one of these problems has to work across every site, service, and customer at once.\nFew organizations get to build this kind of software in house. What this team builds will shape how a global network of antennas is operated for the missions that depend on it. Every new antenna, site, and customer Northwood adds runs on this platform, and it sets how fast the network can grow.\nAs an early-career Software Engineer on the Platform team, you'll ship to real production systems from your first weeks, with close mentorship, and take on more ownership as you show you're ready. You don't need to know every part of the stack today. You need to learn fast, reason clearly through problems you haven't seen before, and care a lot about what you build.\nKey areas of focus\nYou'll work across these areas over time. No one is expected to own everything listed.\nDelivery and release\nBuild the CI and release pipelines that take code from commit to production, in the cloud and at ground stations around the world.\n\nMake shipping safe and continuous, with staged rollouts and fast rollback, so no one has to test in production.\n\nSimulation and test\nBuild simulated ground stations and lab test benches running real hardware, so every release is tested against realistic conditions before it reaches a live site.\n\nBuild tools that replay real recorded data through the system to catch problems early.\n\nGround station operations\nAutomate how new sites are brought online, configured, and updated, in remote locations with few or no people on site.\n\nWrite software that runs on the servers that sit next to the antennas, and keep a global fleet of them healthy.\n\nObservability\nBuild the monitoring, logging, and alerting that show the health of every service and site.\n\nTurn raw telemetry into signals engineers and operators can act on before a problem reaches a customer.\n\nInternal platform and tools\nBuild the backend services and web interfaces engineers and operators use every day to create, ship, and run software.\n\nTalk directly with the people who use what you build, and turn their feedback into improvements.\n\nInfrastructure and security\nDefine the cloud and site infrastructure the platform runs on as code.\n\nBuild identity, secrets management, and least-privilege access into the platform, so every service gets them by default.\n\nBasic Qualifications\n0 to 2 years of professional software experience. It doesn't have to be a full-time role. Internships, research, open source, and projects outside the classroom all count, so tell us about them.\n\nBachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, math, or a related field. This is a soft requirement: if you didn't pursue a degree, tell us what you did instead.\n\nHas written real software in at least one general-purpose language (such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or C++) beyond required coursework.\n\nHas built and shipped something other people used or relied on.\n\nHas solved a hard technical problem largely on their own, such as debugging a non-obvious failure or designing a system from scratch.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nWe don't expect you to have everything below. We do expect you to go deep where your strengths are, and to take ownership of what you work on.\nLanguages: proficiency in one or more languages (such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript), with opinions about which one fits which job.\n\nFull stack: has built a backend API and a frontend that uses it (such as a React app on a REST API).\n\nShipping software: exposure to CI pipelines (such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI), containers (such as Docker), a cloud platform (such as AWS), or infrastructure as code (such as Terraform or CloudFormation).\n\nSystems: day-to-day comfort with Linux and the command line, or coursework and projects in operating systems, networking, or distributed systems.\n\nTools for others: built a tool, script, or library other developers used.\n\nHardware and space: projects involving hardware, embedded systems, RF, robotics, or space, such as a CubeSat, rocketry, or robotics team.\n\nDrive: a track record of going past what was asked, such as side projects, competitions, research, or things built because you wanted to.\n\nAI tools: comfort with AI coding tools (such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor).\n\nAdditional Information:\nIf you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.\nTo conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.\nNorthwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; 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