Space Kinetic is a startup focused on addressing urgent national security priorities by delivering a suite of asymmetric capabilities for space superiority and missile defense leveraging their proprietary electromechanical deployment system.
Requirements
- Strong programming fundamentals in OOP Languages such as C++, C, or Java
- Experience with Version Control (Git) and collaborative development workflows
- Passion for Systems Programming or Lower-Level Programming (C/C++, RTOS, bare-metal)
- Experience in developing multi-threaded applications
- CI/CD, build tools, and DevOps practices
- Scripting in Python, MATLAB, or similar
- Curiosity for testing in-space operation
Responsibilities
- work across the stack and across disciplines
- work alongside a multidisciplinary team of software engineers, physicists, and electrical engineers on projects spanning Data Acquisition (DAQ) and Controls Applications, Ground Controls and Telemetry Systems, Orbital Dynamics and Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations, Embedded Systems and Device Integration, Scientific Computing, Optimization, and Visualization, and Enterprise Services (APIs, Databases, Job Scheduling)
- tackle hard, cutting-edge problems where Stack Overflow and LLMs don't always have the answers
Other
- Currently enrolled in a Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related program at an accredited college or university
- Passion for solving real-world engineering programs in software
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, self-driven entrepreneurial workplace
- Ability to work with minimal direction or support and to learn quickly; strong analytical skills; creative and innovative thinking; detail-oriented; calm under pressure; commitment to follow-through; enthusiastic with a talent for motivating others; receptive to criticism and open to others' ideas; and effective in written communication.
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder).
