Loft Orbital is looking to scale its ability to operate a heterogeneous fleet of satellites and ensure the reliable, efficient, and standardized operation of its space infrastructure. This role is foundational for Loft's business model, which relies on the dependability of its space infrastructure to support customer missions.
Requirements
- Proven experience developing software, with solid skills in automation
- Able to work across a broad software and hardware “stack”--our work involves ground-based automation, space-based automation, the intersection between that automation, ground & flight software, and hardware
- Experience with Python and Git
- Familiarity/experience with Docker, Lua, Linux, CI/CD, test engineering, reliability engineering
Responsibilities
- Improve the reliability and scalability of our space infrastructure by building the software systems that operate our satellites autonomously.
- Build tools, systems, and software libraries which support other teams' usage of the space infrastructure
- Scale our satellite operation software to support a growing and heterogeneous satellite fleet
- Work with product teams to drive product improvements based on operations and integration needs
- Improve and maintain technical aspects of SatDevOps Academy, our internal company-wide satellite operations training program
- Work as a rotating Flight Director, overseeing and managing incident response for the satellite fleet
Other
- Willing & interested to be trained as a satellite controller and flight director (including being in the on-call rotation)
- Pragmatic: you will be building for long-term reliability and scalability and also asked to find short/medium-term solutions
- Openness to being challenged and working outside of your comfort zone
- Willingness to be accountable, autonomous, and take full ownership of projects
- 3+ years software engineering experience (rather than scripting experience)
