Space Operations Engineer (Embedded Software)
Orbital SidekickSan Francisco, Canada
Full Time
Posted December 18, 2023
$100k - $160k
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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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