Senior Ground Software Operations Engineer

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Orbital SidekickSatellite operations

Remote friendly (we hire in-office and remote employees in the United States)Full-TimeSenior

Salary130,000 - 180,000 USD per year

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Hold a BS in Computer Science or Aerospace, Mechanical, or Astronautical Engineering.
Have 5+ years of experience in the Aerospace, Space, or Software industry.
Have experience verifying tasking plans and spacecraft health and status.
Have strong proficiency in Python and/or C++.
Understand Linux/Unix operating-system commands for scripting and commanding.
Have experience using software APIs to receive and send telemetry data.
Have foundations in software architecture, interface design, distributed systems, and testing patterns.
Communicate effectively with engineers across disciplines.
Bonus: MS in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or Astronautical Engineering.
Bonus: Practitioner-level experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.
Bonus: Experience monitoring health and status of satellite software systems.
Bonus: Knowledge of orbital mechanics and spacecraft pointing/control algorithms.
Bonus: Spacecraft operations experience, including downloading and uploading spacecraft control parameters.

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

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