Loft Orbital operates small-satellite buses, purchasing platforms, integrating customer payloads and hosting virtual missions so commercial, academic and government users deploy software and sensors on Loft-managed spacecraft.
Wanna join the adventure? Loft Orbital is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Ground Software Solutions team. About the Team: The Ground Software Solutions Team develops and maintains custom ground software capabilities for our customers. We configure and extend Cockpit (Loft's Mission Control and Scheduling Software) for specific program needs, deliver custom features to support mission deployment and execution, and help ensure smooth operations by connecting product capabilities with mission-specific needs. We also drive product improvement by providing operational feedback and collaborating closely with Product teams. This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting edge technology, helping build modern automated infrastructure, bringing software and space together. As well as developing our future systems, the role will also be working on real-time issues on live missions, helping to solve problems as they occur. On top of this we also offer SatDevOps training to enable this person to actually operate our spacecraft! Some technical information about the position The stack we are using: Python, Django, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Cue, C++