Software Engineer (Early Career, Exceptional Talent)
$92,000–$124,000 year
On-siteCentennial, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Own a defined piece of team software with accountability for outcomes, sitting with engineers, technicians, and test crews to build what they actually need. Ship code within your first week and a tool in daily use by the end of your first month. Work with AI as a first-class partner, iterating fast to fix issues and move to the next problem. You will be placed on one of four teams: Boomie (the software platform for hardware design and build), Telemetry (near-realtime distributed systems for engine data), Design & Analysis (tools for aerodynamics, turbine design, and GPU-native CFD), or DevOps (HPC clusters and automation pipelines). This role requires 100% onsite work at Boom's headquarters in Centennial, CO. Candidates must be eligible for ITAR authorization.
Required Qualifications
- A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent evidence that you can build
- At least one thing you built and shipped that people other than you used: a club tool, an open source project, a lab pipeline, a personal system that runs your life. This is required, not a nice-to-have. School projects alone do not clear it
- An internship or co-op where you shipped something real
- Strong computing fundamentals and genuine curiosity about how things work all the way down
- A track record of finishing hard things, inside school and outside of it
- You've done something extraordinary early: shipped software with real users, built the systems your club or lab depends on, or done work in an internship that most engineers don't see for years
- You love building and want to work long, smart, and hard to create things that have real impact
- You want ownership, not guidance
- You get more energized when a problem gets harder, not less
- You're uncomfortable waiting for someone else to find the answer
- The test stand and the factory floor sound more interesting to you than a sprint planning meeting
- Internships require 100% onsite at Boom's headquarters located at 6803 S Tucson Way, Centennial, CO 80112
- To conform to U.S. Government aerospace technology export regulations (ITAR and EAR), applicant 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
- Due to the nature of this position, candidates must be eligible to access export-controlled information and technology as required by applicable U.S. export control laws
Desired Qualifications
- You will thrive here if: You want ownership, not guidance
- You get more energized when a problem gets harder, not less
- You're comfortable not knowing the answer yet, and uncomfortable waiting for someone else to find it
- You'd rather watch a machinist fight a workflow for an hour than read a requirements document about it
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