Senior Software Engineer (Mission Optimization)

Join the Mission Optimization team as a Senior Software Engineer, where you will own significant optimization initiatives from problem definition to implementation. You will work closely with various engineering and operations teams, analyze operational data, and act as a technical advisor within the team. This is a full-time, hybrid role based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Posséder des initiatives d'optimisation significatives de bout en bout, y compris la définition du problème, l'analyse des données, la conception de la solution, la mise en œuvre et la mesure des résultats.
• Concevoir, développer et maintenir des logiciels critiques pour la mission qui planifient et optimisent les activités de nos constellations de satellites.
• Agir en tant que conseiller technique au sein de l'équipe et mentor pour les ingénieurs en début de carrière.
• Effective written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences

Requirements

Experience mentoring or technically leading other engineers

• Deep proficiency in Python or a comparable language, with a track record of designing and shipping systems that other people depend on
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent depth achieved through your work
• Data-driven approach, including statistical analysis and reasoning over large operational datasets
• Ability to take an ambiguous, loosely scoped problem and drive it to a measurable outcome with minimal direction
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• Familiarity with satellite engineering, orbital mechanics, or the space environment and its operational constraints
• Hands-on experience operating spacecraft or other remote/autonomous systems
• Experience defining concepts of operations for complex systems
• Background in optimization, scheduling, or operations research — constraint solvers, heuristics, combinatorial optimization

Preferred

• Experience with DevOps tooling and practices (Git, GitLab, Docker, CI/CD, Linux, Sentry, Datadog)
• Contributions to open-source software

Pay

USD 162,600 - 203,200