Loft Orbital Solutions

Loft Orbital Solutions

Attitude Guidance & Performance Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specified$130k-$190kDetected 14 days ago
AlgorithmsAerospace EngineeringResearchCommunicationOrganizational Skills

About the role

  • Coordinate with the bus suppliers to ensure a follow-up and anomaly resolution
  • Be the technical reference for attitude control matters for the in-orbit fleet;

Responsibilities

  • Develop and validate the attitude guidance algorithms (on-ground or in orbit)
  • Develop the ADCS calibration strategy
  • Support customer interactions for ADCS performance;
  • You'll work closely with mission teams, customers, and spacecraft suppliers to define performance requirements, develop and validate guidance solutions, support in-orbit operations, and resolve complex attitude control challenges.
  • You'll help build a common guidance service that interfaces with multiple spacecraft platforms, supports diverse customer missions, and enables increasingly agile spacecraft operations.

Requirements

  • You have 5+ years of proven experience as an attitude control architect or engineer;
  • You have extensive knowledge of Python.

Skills

  • Space Made Simple.
  • As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.
  • You possess strong communication and organizational skills;

Compensation

  • Loft flies multiple satellites per year and is building the next generation of guidance and attitude control capabilities across a growing fleet of spacecraft.

Company info

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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