Backend Engineering Intern: Ground Platform Control
Loft Orbital Solutions1 day ago
Toulouse, FranceIntern
Responsibilities
- Design and develop a control investigation API for failed-commanding and missing-telemetry investigations.
- Build and scale backend microservices that support satellite commanding, monitoring, and automation.
- Work with satellite operators to understand failure cases and automate standard investigations.
- Collaborate across Ground Platform, Flight Software, Satellite Operations, and Test teams.
- Complete a possible short Python notebook challenge during the interview process.
Requirements
- Engineering background such as Computer Science, Physics, or Aerospace, with an interest in backend software engineering.
- Experience with Python.
- Ability to work and communicate comfortably in English across US and France teams.
- Interest in working in a diverse, international team and strong communication skills.
- Experience with Docker and container-based development is preferred.
- Knowledge of space systems or satellite operations is preferred.
- Hands-on experience with Django, Flask, FastAPI, or other backend web frameworks is preferred.
- Database fundamentals and knowledge of frontend engineering practices or frameworks are preferred.
Benefits
- Six-month end-of-studies internship in the Toulouse city-center office, targeting an early 2027 start.
- €1,300 gross per month.
- Lunch vouchers.
- Sustainable mobility package.
- Mentorship throughout the internship.
- Possibility of full-time employment after the internship if performance and circumstances align.
- International work environment with colleagues from more than 20 nationalities.
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.