Flight Dynamics Software Engineer
Loft Orbital Solutions7 days ago
Toulouse, FranceSenior
Responsibilities
- Implement and improve algorithms for orbit determination, orbit propagation, maneuver planning, conjunction assessment, collision avoidance, and attitude modeling.
- Develop and maintain backend ground-software applications that compute, store, and serve ephemerides, maneuvers, conjunctions, and target orbits.
- Contribute to open-source astrodynamics tooling used for flight operations and simulation.
- Work with systems and mission engineers to translate technical requirements and customer demands into operational outcomes.
- Support satellite operations during LEOP, anomalies, and conjunction response, including software-stack configuration for customer missions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline.
- Deep technical understanding of orbital mechanics, state estimation, spacecraft maneuver planning, conjunction assessment, and/or spacecraft attitude modeling.
- Fundamentals of numerical methods, including solvers, optimization, and simulation techniques.
- Experience designing and developing software libraries and backend services, preferably in Python.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Master's degree in physics or engineering, experience with astrodynamics tools, spacecraft constellation flight dynamics operations, and high-performance backend software are preferred qualifications.
Benefits
- Equity participation.
- Up to 35 days of paid time off and flexible working hours.
- Health and life insurance.
- Lunch vouchers.
- Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse.
- Company and team off-sites and other events.
- Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable.
About Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions builds standardized satellite platforms and delivers end-to-end missions as a service for governments, companies, and research institutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held firm integrates, launches, and operates spacecraft to deploy Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on‑orbit compute, and national security payloads in months. Loft has flown more than 30 missions, using hardware and software abstraction layers atop commodity satellite buses.