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BlackSky · 4 months ago

Senior Engineer, Mission Planning

Seattle, WA

Contract

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$100K/yr - $140K/yr

6+ years exp

BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company that operates a sophisticated space-based intelligence platform. They are looking for a strong engineer to join their Mission Planning Engineering team, where the primary focus will be on developing and maintaining optimized autonomous operations for their satellite constellation.

Defense & Space

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Contribute to mission planning integrated product team, interfacing with mission planning, ground software, and operations and product engineers to plan and execute autonomous constellation operations software features

Model, implement, and test concepts of operation for autonomous planning of various constellation activities including imaging, system calibration, propulsion, or other critical activities

Model satellite subsystems (communications, power, attitude) using methods that are compatible with existing and future ground and control software algorithms as needed to support Mission Planning functions

Support ongoing constellation operations and customer fulfillment efforts as a mission planning subject matter expert

Translate product concepts to engineering requirements and facilitate review and discussion among engineering, product and software stakeholders

Occasional 24/7 support expected during Launch and Early Operations or Anomaly Response in support of debugging and fixing mission planning algorithms

Other relevant duties assigned

Qualification

PythonGoSoftware designTechnical requirementsOrbital mechanicsData structuresAlgorithm efficiencyProject managementTeam cooperationCommunication skillsProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor's or Master's degree or higher in one of the following fields: aerospace or mechanical engineering, systems engineering, computer science or equivalent

At least six (6) years of relevant professional experience

Familiarity with satellite first principals such as orbital mechanics, attitude dynamics, and satellite systems

Experience writing technical requirements and driving to implementation

Experience with project management or software product development

Working knowledge of Go or Python

Knowledge of software design, maintenance, and implementation including data structures, data retrieval and storage, algorithm efficiency, and maintainable scalable code

Expertise in software/hardware performance characteristics

Demonstrated initiative to identify and solve problems or inefficiencies in your current field of expertise

Possess strong team and inter-team cooperation and organization skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a strong understanding of audience

Ability to sustain a workload consisting of several concurrent, independent activities

This program this role supports requires US-born citizenship

Preferred

Experience with automation of complex systems (satellite, vehicle fleets, drones, etc.)

Strong familiarity with orbital mechanics, attitude dynamics, and satellite systems

Experience with planning algorithms and fluency with inputs/outputs/constraints to such systems

Expertise with integer or linear program solvers

Experience with embedded systems pertaining to satellites or other autonomous vehicles

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance + BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!

15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more

401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match

Flexible Spending Accounts

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs

Employer matching donations

Professional development

Mac or PC? Your choice!

Awesome swag

Company

BlackSky

BlackSky is a space-based intelligence company that delivers real-time imagery with global rapid revisit, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events.

Founded in 2013

Herndon, Virginia, US

201-500 employees