Flight Dynamics Software Engineer
Loft Orbital Solutions7 days ago
Golden, CO, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$165k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement and improve algorithms for orbit determination, orbit propagation, maneuver planning, conjunction assessment, collision avoidance, and attitude modeling.
- Develop and maintain backend applications that compute, store, and serve ephemerides, maneuvers, conjunctions, target orbits, and related flight dynamics data.
- Translate technical mission requirements and customer demands into operational outcomes with systems and mission engineers.
- Provide astrodynamics expertise to satellite operations engineers during launch and early orbit operations, anomalies, and conjunction response.
- Configure the software stack for customer missions and contribute to open-source astrodynamics tooling used in flight operations and simulation.
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.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Master’s degree in physics or engineering, proficiency with astrodynamics tools, spacecraft constellation flight dynamics operations experience, and high-performance backend software or library development experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance options for employees and dependents.
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts, including an employer HSA contribution.
- Employer-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Flexible time off, sick leave, and 12 paid holidays.
- 401(k) plan, equity options, catered lunches and snacks, parental leave, fertility and family-forming benefits, off-sites, social events, and applicable relocation assistance.
- International exposure to the team in France.
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.