Backend Software Engineer - Mission Planning Strategy
Pay
$140K–$190K
per year
Work mode
On-site
Full Time
Location
Experience
2+ yrs
Bachelor's
Golden, CO at a glance
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- #11 of 51$1,810/mo+9% vs US avg
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- Income tax
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What you need
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or mathematics
- 2+ yrs backend software development experience
- Python proficiency for libraries and services
- System design experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
What you'll do
- Develop software for multi-sensor satellite constellation tasking
- Design customer-facing interfaces and back-end pipelines
- Build capacity planning tools for sales and operators
- Solve multi-objective optimization problems for collection capacity
- Design scalable systems of systems with clear interfaces
Wanna join the adventure?
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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
Must Haves:
- 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
Nice to Haves:
- 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
Some of Our Awesome Benefits:
*Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes.
Who We Are
Loft: Space Made Simple.
Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.
We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.
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About Loft Orbital
Loft Orbital deploys space infrastructure as a service, providing rapid, reliable, and simplified access to space.
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