Solutions Engineer - New Products
Maxar Technologies5 months ago
Herndon, VA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$99k - $145k/yr
Responsibilities
- Interface with Raptor customers worldwide to coordinate software integration into their system architectures.
- Provide technical guidance and travel to customer sites to deliver product expertise.
- Characterize product performance in customer implementations and capture requirements for product improvements.
- Assist with field integration testing, including configuration of Jetson and Raspberry Pi computers, PX4 and ArduPilot autopilot stacks, and analysis of telemetry, imagery, and positioning data.
- Develop technical designs using satellite imagery and full-motion video for UAS visual positioning, odometry, and navigation.
- Develop, document, and communicate technical and system requirements to the product engineering team.
- Contribute code within the product engineering development process.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and GTM/sales teams to define and validate interfaces and data flows between Raptor and OEM systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline such as Aerospace, Computer Science, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or Math, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience supporting ISR, UAS, aerospace, or defense system integrations.
- Strong programming skills in C, C++, Python, and shell scripting.
- Experience with cross-compilation and toolchains, embedded systems, SoCs, SBCs, and low-level Linux troubleshooting and configuration.
- Experience with system design across hardware and software.
- Knowledge of networking and communication protocols such as serial, TCP/IP, and Wi-Fi.
- Experience in customer-facing roles, support, and solution design.
- Strong communication skills and sound judgment in customer communications.
- Preferred: master’s degree in engineering, computer vision, software engineering, or a related technical field.
- Preferred: experience with video formats and streaming protocols, multimedia frameworks, GIS systems, image processing, computer vision, cameras and optics, aerial navigation, UAS hardware and software, and embedded Linux or edge-compute platforms.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- The position is incentive eligible, with the target determined by role scope, contribution, company performance, and individual results.
- The role is based in Herndon, Virginia, requires travel to customer sites, and is limited to U.S. Persons as defined in the posting.
- The application window is three days from posting or reposting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.
About Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies builds and operates commercial Earth‑observation satellites and sells high‑resolution imagery, 3D products, and geospatial analytics to government, defense, and enterprise customers. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, the company was formed in 2017 from the merger of DigitalGlobe and MDA and was acquired by Advent International in 2023; it supplies data for national security, mapping, and disaster response, and licenses imagery through subscription and platform APIs.