Spacecraft Software Engineer

Job summary

Why this role is different At many satellite companies, a flight software engineer may spend years on one programme and be lucky to see their code fly on one or two satellites in a decade. OrbAstro is different. We build satellites end-to-end, operate them ourselves, and are scaling toward frequent constellation missions.

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Qualifications

• We are looking for an exceptional engineer who wants an unusually steep learning curve and an unusually high level of ownership.
• OrbAstro is a lean, high-calibre team operating in a part of the industry where execution matters.
• We are not looking for passengers.
• We are looking for people who take responsibility, move fast without becoming careless, raise standards, and make the people around them better.
• This role will suit someone who wants to be pushed, trusted, and stretched.
• Someone who enjoys difficult technical problems.
• Someone who is comfortable close to hardware.
• Someone who wants their work to fly.
• Someone who would rather own a real system than be a small part of a slow, distant programme.
• You should have a “we will figure it out” attitude, but also the judgement to know when rigour matters.
• Spacecraft software must be practical, testable, observable, recoverable, and boringly reliable when it counts.
• This is a small-unit environment: high trust, high standards, high tempo, high consequence.

Responsibilities

• What you will be doing
• You will write software that operates real spacecraft.
• You will be close to the hardware, close to the mission, and close to the consequences.
• You will work with AIT, avionics, RF, ADCS, payload, ground-segment, and operations teams to get spacecraft commissioned, stable, resilient, and productive in orbit.
• You will work on customer missions, hosted payload missions, constellation missions, and OrbAstro’s own internal constellation programmes.

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