# Principal Transport and IP Network Engineer

Hiring organization: [AST SpaceMobile](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/ast-spacemobile)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/181c42cc-f240-4575-9273-35b60bf3674c

Listed on AST SpaceMobile's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Principal
- Location: Dallas, TX

## Summary

This principal-level role owns the complete networking infrastructure—routers, switches, firewalls, optical systems—for satellite gateways that connect to terrestrial networks and cloud environments. The position suits a deeply technical carrier-network engineer with 5+ years designing and deploying production-grade IP, MPLS, BGP, and SDN systems who can lead integration and testing of new hardware designs from lab to global scale.

_Our summary, not AST SpaceMobile's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Cisco, Juniper, Medical Telemetry, Microsoft Azure, MPLS, Network Security, Software Defined Networking (SDN)

## Required

- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, telecommunications engineering, or related field
- 5+ years carrier-grade IP network engineering experience
- Demonstrated production ownership of routing, switching, firewall, and optical transport infrastructure
- Experience defining hardware/software SKUs, acceptance test plans, and golden configurations
- Leadership of First Office Application or first-deployment validation efforts
- Hands-on competence in MPLS, segment routing, BGP, routing policy, SDN, traffic engineering, QoS, multicast, data-center and cloud networking, transport resiliency, and network security

## Nice to have

- Experience with satellite ground-segment, teleport, or geographically distributed gateway networking
- CCIE, JNCIE, or equivalent vendor-neutral routing/switching certification
- Direct experience working with Mobile Network Operators on interconnect design or interoperability testing
- Familiarity with NCC/OSS systems integration with IP transport
- Experience with network telemetry, automation, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Background integrating optical transport/DWDM systems into IP network architecture

Apply on AST SpaceMobile's site: https://ast-science.com/company/careers/?gh_jid=4723417005