Senior Engineer, Mission Planning

Job description

Job 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.

Job requirements

• 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.
• Experience with automation of complex systems (satellite, vehicle fleets, drones, shipping/delivery logistics etc.).
• Experience with planning or optimization algorithms and fluency with inputs/outputs/constraints to such 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.