Senior Ground Software Operations Engineer

Orbital Sidekick (OSK) is revolutionizing how the world understands and interacts with our planet. As a Senior Ground Software Operations Engineer, you will help build out the tools, processes and products critical to our customer’s success.

Responsibilities:

• Design software architecture that supports efficient upload and download of tasking and imagery data
• Efficiently model tasking scenarios for a constellation of hyperspectral satellites
• Perform trade studies on orbit positioning and maneuvers to maximize satellite coverage
• Interface with the operations and software team to successfully execute targeted tasking with multiple space-based sensors
• Write and maintain a modeling and simulation codebase that is used by multiple teams
• Work with the OSK product team to deliver a high fidelity constellation tasking tool from simulation to execution
• Develop and tune a scheduling algorithm for a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or Aerospace/Mechanical/Astronautical Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in the Aerospace/Space/Software industry
• Experience in verification of tasking plans and spacecraft health and status
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or C++
• Firm understanding of Linux/Unix Operating System commands for scripting and commanding
• Experience using software APIs to receive and send telemetry data
• Excellent foundations of software architecture, interface design, distributed systems, and testing patterns
• Strong communication skills with other disciplines and engineers
• MS in Computer Science/Aerospace/Astronautical Engineering
• Practitioner-level experience with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc)
• Health and Status monitoring of satellite software systems experience
• Knowledge of orbital mechanics and pointing/control algorithms for spacecraft
• Spacecraft operations experience, downloading and uploading spacecraft control parameters