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Orbital Sidekick · 5 months ago

Space Operations Engineer (Embedded Software)

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$100K/yr - $160K/yr

3+ years exp

Orbital Sidekick (OSK) is revolutionizing how the world understands and interacts with our planet through advanced hyperspectral satellite data and analytics. As a Space Operations Engineer (Embedded), you will create services to control satellites and collaborate with various teams to build tools and processes critical to customer success.

AerospaceInformation TechnologySatellite Communication

Responsibilities

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

Test operations plans on ground hardware testbeds, and improving ground software test processes

Work with the OSK product team to deliver high fidelity constellation tasking plans

Verify and Validate tasking plans and spacecraft health and status

Troubleshoot and resolve payload on-orbit anomalies and findings

Optimize camera and optical systems to extract critical insights

Develop detailed understanding of onboard flight software hardware and software interfaces

Work with OSK’s algorithm team to implement onboard algorithms to high-bandwidth data-streams

Develop OSK’s data ingestion and processing capabilities for satellite as well as aerial hyperspectral images

Work with GPU cores to implement on-the-fly data corrections using a neural network

Incorporate payload and spacecraft bus command and control schemes

Qualification

C++PythonLinux Operating SystemSpacecraft operationsEmbedded communication protocolsData processing pipelinesAlgorithm runtime optimizationHealth monitoringOptics understandingRemote sensing dataScalable software solutions