Key skills
PythonBashMLCI/CD
About this role
Role Overview
- You’ll be the technical authority for automation architecture across Open Cosmos space infrastructure — setting the direction, defining standards, and ensuring everything connects seamlessly.
- Define the automation architecture for mission operations, including pipelines, interfaces, and frameworks.
- Establish design principles and standards to ensure long-term scalability and maintainability.
- Evaluate and integrate automation tools, technologies, and frameworks.
- Guide Automation Engineers on design decisions and implementation approaches.
- Review code, frameworks, and systems to ensure architectural alignment.
- Support ML Engineers with integration of models into operational workflows.
- Collaborate with OpenOPS on Mission Control System automation capabilities.
- Partner with OpenSat and OpenApp teams to embed automation into product and platform design.
- Support Mission Operations with automated workflows and procedures.
- Identify bottlenecks and continuously improve the automation ecosystem.
- Lead architectural reviews and define future enhancements.
- Maintain clear architecture documentation and technical guidelines.
Requirements
- The ability to design and build scalable, resilient automation systems and frameworks that support both mission operations and production environments.
- Confident with Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages to develop, integrate, and maintain automation across complex systems.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, orchestration tools, and system integrations to enable reliable, repeatable operational workflows.
- Ability to work with distributed and event-driven systems, understanding how data and processes flow across mission-critical infrastructure.
- Think in systems, patterns, and long-term architecture, designing solutions that are maintainable, extensible, and aligned to future mission needs.
- An aptitude to guide others and help raise technical standards across the team, providing clarity on design decisions and promoting best practice in automation engineering.
Tech Stack
- Python
Benefits
- Work at the cutting edge of space technology with customers around the globe.
- A mission-driven company making space accessible to help solve real-world challenges.
- A diverse, ambitious, and supportive team.