Backend Software Engineer - Mission Planning Strategy Loft Orbital
Standardized satellite platform for fast and reliable low Earth orbit missions.
Other
Toulouse
No remote
Salary: Not specified
Skills we're looking for
Observation skills
Teamwork
Communication skills
Problem-solving skills
C++
+5
You'll be part of
303 employees
Aéronautique / Spatiale
Founded in 2017
65%
35%
We’re Making Space Simple: Loft is a space infrastructure company that provides simple, fast, and reliable ways to deploy missions to low Earth orbit.
We have developed a standardized satellite platform that can be configured to fly any customer mission. With our own hardware and software abstraction layers on top of a commodity satellite bus, our platform is truly turnkey and plug-and-play.
Loft offers our customers unbeatable speed-to-orbit by removing the non-recurring engineering that is the root cause of schedule unpredictability and cost overruns. We bypass typical aerospace lead times by maintaining an inventory of fully assembled satellite platforms at our Integration and Test facility in Golden, CO.
Loft handles all elements of the process of deploying and operating space infrastructure on the customer’s behalf, so that customers can focus their time and resources entirely on their mission.
You'll be working on
Wanna join the adventure?
Loft Orbital is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join the Mission Platform organization. You'll work on a small and driven team, developing a brand new software product that optimizes tasking across a large heterogeneous constellation of multi-sensor satellites:
We're looking for someone with a solid background in software engineering, ideally with a proven track record of building systems from scratch and solving complex, system-level problems. The ideal candidate can operate independently in a fast-paced environment and challenge requirements. |
About this role:
- Develop and improve a new software product that manages customer orders across a multi-sensor constellation of satellites
- Interface with teams to help design the customer-facing interfaces and the back-end pipeline that goes from a plan to onboard execution
- Build tools and services that help sales and operators understand current and future capacity, operational risks and opportunities for growth
- Solve complex multi-objective optimization problems that maximize collection capacity, balancing various (conflicting) customer constraints, and help define what “optimal” means
- Design systems of systems: decompose complex problems into well-bounded services with clear interfaces, and reason about how they interact, fail, and scale together
- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Physics/Astrodynamics, Mathematics or a related field
- 2+ years of experience with designing and developing software libraries and backend services, preferably in Python
- Proven track record of operating independently and solving complex problems
- Experience with system design
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, for technical and non-technical audiences
- Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Physics/Astrodynamics, Mathematics or a related field
- 5+ years of experience designing and developing software libraries and backend services, preferably in Python
- Proficiency with Django/GraphQL stacks
- Hands-on experience operating spacecraft
- Experience with C++ / high-performance Python (vectorization, JIT compilation like Numba, GPU parallelization)
- Demonstrated practical experience building high-performance backend software applications and/or libraries
- Specialization in one of the following disciplines:
- Integer/linear/multi-objective optimization or other Operations Research style problems
- Back-end/API performance optimization
- Distributed systems
- Security
- Earth observation tasking
- High-performance computing
- Equity, we want you to have an active role in our success
- Up to 35 days of Paid Time Off (vacations & RTT ) and flexible working hours, we want you to be at your best
- Health and life insurance, we care about your health
- Lunch Vouchers, because let’s be honest, we love food! (we even have a slack channel about it #loft-gourmand)
- Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse to learn from our differences
- Company and team off-sites and many other events to work & celebrate together
- Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable
Benefits
Key figures
In short
Founding year
2017
Employees
303
Gender
35%
65%