Role Overview:
Aalyria’s Spacetime platform orchestrates highly dynamic aerospace networks, computing and enforcing connectivity across steerable RF/optical links, satellites, ground systems, and mission networks. We’re looking for a Solutions Engineer with a strong “Field Engineer” mindset: someone who can drive customer onboarding end-to-end, build custom integrations/adapters, and also show up on-site to bring systems to life in labs, test ranges, and operational environments.
This role blends customer-facing engineering, systems integration, and hands-on software development. You’ll partner closely with Product and Core Engineering while working directly with customer and partner engineers and operators.
Travel Expectation:
This is a hybrid role with ~25% travel on average, with bursts up to ~50% during customer onboarding, integration, field tests, and deployment milestones.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead technical onboarding for new customers: discovery, environment mapping, integration plans, and “day-1” working connectivity.
- Design and implement custom integrations/adapters that connect customer and partner hardware/software to Spacetime (e.g., terminals/modems/radios, gateways, mission systems, OSS/BSS, telemetry/monitoring).
- Own end-to-end proofs-of-integration and field demos: lab bring-up, on-site troubleshooting, performance validation, and operator-ready runbooks.
- Debug complex issues across software, networks, and hardware interfacesoften in constrained, real-world environments where logs are imperfect and time matters.
- Partner with Core Engineering to productize repeatable integration patterns into reusable frameworks, SDKs, schemas, and deployment templates.
- Create crisp technical artifacts: integration specs, gRPC/protobuf APIs, deployment guides, and reference architectures.
- Provide technical leadership during early operations: serve as an escalation point, coordinate incident response during critical milestones, and close the loop with engineering fixes.
- Success in this role will look like the following:
- Customers go from “signed” to “integrated + validated” quickly, with clear plans, tight feedback loops, and high-confidence deliveries.
- Integrations are robust and reusable, reducing bespoke work over time by upstreaming patterns and tooling into the Spacetime platform.
- Field deployments run smoothly because technical risk is surfaced early, on-site execution is disciplined, and learnings translate into lasting improvements.
Required Qualifications:
- U.S. person and eligible to obtain a U.S. SECRET security clearance (or higher).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years in customer-facing technical roles (Solutions Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, Field Engineering, Technical Integration Engineering, Systems Engineering, or similar).
- Strong software development experience in one or more languages (e.g., Go, Python, Java, C++) and a track record shipping production-quality integration code (tests, reliability, documentation).
- Experience integrating distributed systems via APIs and protocols (REST/gRPC, messaging, authn/authz), plus comfort debugging across network boundaries.
- Hands-on ability in Linux environments and modern deployment patterns (containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Active U.S. SECRET clearance (or higher).
- Experience with networking / infrastructure platforms (routing/switching concepts, SDN/traffic engineering, network telemetry/observability).
- Experience integrating telecom, satellite, aerospace, or defense systems (terminals/modems, gateways, NMS/OSS/BSS, mission networks).
- Experience with system bring-up practices: lab/test equipment, scripted provisioning, configuration management, and acceptance testing.
- Strong writ