OSS Automation Engineers

<div class="content-intro"><p>AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global cellular broadband network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio and designed for both commercial and government applications. Our engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today’s five billion mobile subscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected.</p></div><p><strong>Position Overview</strong></p> <p>We are seeking an OSS Automation Engineer to join the Latvia Design Center as the primary owner of network and ground-segment lifecycle automation. This role builds and operates the production automation that executes real operational processes: zero-touch provisioning, site and service acceptance before commercial traffic is enabled, in-service configuration management and drift detection, and fault/alarm handling. A defining characteristic of this role is bridging with automation operational domains that today depend on manual coordination between teams and systems.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build, develop and deploy AST’s internal automation processes within AST OSS platform – provisioning automation, configuration management, fault & alarm handling automation, cross domain orchestration and integration</li> <li>Translate architectural specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional & non-functional requirements into clean, well-tested, production-ready code</li> <li>Write modular, maintainable software following team coding standards, with appropriate documentation and code comments</li> <li>Implement and maintain integration tests, regression suites, and performance benchmarks for the developed software components</li> <li>Participate in design and code reviews, providing and receiving constructive technical feedback</li> <li>Support system-level integration testing ensuring delivered software meets acceptance criteria</li> <li>Work within the team’s agile delivery process: contribute to sprint planning, maintain backlog hygiene, and deliver consistently against milestone commitments</li> <li>Maintain technical documentation: component specifications, API contracts, test results, and runbooks</li> <li>Engage with other internal teams to clarify requirements, validate assumptions, and ensure delivered software meets operational needs</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p> <p><strong>Education:</strong></p> <p>Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.</p> <p><strong>Experience:</strong></p> <p>A minimum of 3+ years of professional experience in network or business process automation, or a combined network/software engineering role in live-network operational environment.</p> <ul> <li>Proven experience building production automation/orchestration workflows that execute real operational processes, not just test or CI/CD automation</li> <li>Hands-on experience with at least one of Temporal, Apache Airflow, or AWS Step Functions for sequencing multi-step, stateful, or long-running workflows</li> <li>Strong proficiency in Python or Go for automation and integration logic</li> <li>Experience with network configuration automation tooling (e.g. Ansible, Netmiko/NAPALM, or vendor-specific APIs)</li> <li>Working knowledge of event-driven integration via Kafka/Protobuf</li> <li>Working knowledge of AWS fundamentals (compute, networking, VPN/Transit Gateway, manage