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Space Operations Engineer (Embedded Software)

Orbital Sidekick
San Francisco, Canada
Full Time
Posted December 18, 2023
$100k - $160k
Climate Technology
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Job Description

Orbital Sidekick (OSK) is revolutionizing how the world understands and interacts with our planet.

Key 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

Requirements

• MS in Aerospace/Astronautical Engineering or Computer Science • Familiarity with scalable software solutions • Health and Status monitoring of software systems • Firm understanding of optics, optical alignment, and spacecraft control • Experience with remote sensing data • Expertise in python and C++ software development

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