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AST SpaceMobile

Principal Automation and AI Operations Engineer

AST SpaceMobile · Dallas, Texas, United States

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
78 days
AST SpaceMobile's roles stay open a median of 87 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
1% of AST SpaceMobile's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at AST SpaceMobile
high
231 stale, 6 reposted of 231 open
Hiring momentum
268 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-29

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from AST SpaceMobile's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for AST SpaceMobile.

About this role

The Principal Automation and AI Operations Engineer will focus on the lifecycle management and documentation of Gateway SKUs, design automated test frameworks, and validate Gateway subsystems. This role involves collaboration with various teams to ensure operability and performance of the Gateway, automating tasks, and developing predictive models for operational efficiency.

Our read on this posting2.2out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of AST SpaceMobile as an employer.

What you need

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 5+ years of experience in network automation, DevOps/SRE, or operations engineering, ideally within telecom, networking, or satellite ground-segment environments.
  • Experience building automated test frameworks that replace manual validation procedures at scale.
  • Defining and lifecycle-managing hardware/software SKUs and associated acceptance criteria.
  • Supporting field trials, FOAs, or first-deployment validation for new network products.
  • Proven, hands-on competence across network automation; Python, Go, or similar languages; infrastructure as code; event-driven systems; workflow automation; data engineering; machine learning; AIOps; autonomous remediation; digital twins; and policy-driven operations.

Nice to have

  • Experience building or operating toward a highly autonomous operations model.
  • Familiarity with NAS and NCC systems, or equivalent core network/operations-support platforms.
  • Experience with predictive/ML-based failure detection or capacity planning models in a production network.
  • Familiarity with satellite, RF, or baseband subsystems and their test/validation requirements.
  • Experience developing digital twins or simulation models of network/service state.

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed.
  • The role requires collaboration across various technical and non-technical teams, which may require strong interpersonal skills.
  • The job may involve travel to support deployment and testing activities.
  • The job description states that additional tasks may be assigned, indicating a potentially fluid scope of responsibilities.

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Listed by AST SpaceMobile on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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