Customer Delivery Engineer

Loft Orbital Solutions
France
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Transportation & Fleet OperationsSkills: ["Communication","Customer focus","Cross-functional collaboration","Problem-solving","Working in high-pressure environments"]

Own the end-to-end deployment and execution of customer satellite missions, serving as the primary technical interface from early requirements and ConOps through commissioning, on-orbit operations, and continuous improvement. Translate mission objectives into executable workflows, configurations, and automation. Operate real spacecraft and payloads, triage anomalies, and translate operational/customer feedback into reliability and tooling improvements using Loft’s API and operational infrastructure.

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Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions
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Customer Delivery Engineer

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end deployment and execution of customer satellite missions, serving as the primary technical interface from early requirements and ConOps through commissioning, on-orbit operations, and continuous improvement. Translate mission objectives into executable workflows, configurations, and automation. Operate real spacecraft and payloads, triage anomalies, and translate operational/customer feedback into reliability and tooling improvements using Loft’s API and operational infrastructure.
Location: France
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Transportation & Fleet Operations
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the full mission lifecycle from requirements and ConOps design through launch, commissioning, and on-orbit execution.
  • •Operate Loft spacecraft and payloads on orbit to drive mission execution, anomaly resolution, and performance optimization across the fleet.
  • •Work directly with customers to design and implement mission applications on top of Loft’s API and operational framework for scalable on-orbit operations.
  • •Translate mission objectives into executable workflows, configurations, and tooling that enable reliable, scalable execution.
  • •Develop mission tooling and automation in Python, using operational experience and customer feedback to inform product and roadmap improvements.
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Paid LeaveHealth InsuranceLife InsuranceMeal AllowanceRelocation

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of operational engineering experience such as satellite operations, forward deployed engineering, production infrastructure, backend/platform engineering for live products, or other mission-critical systems.
  • •Experience owning or significantly contributing to production systems operating in real-world, mission-critical environments.
  • •Ability to diagnose and resolve issues in complex, multi-layered systems by tracing failures across interfaces and dependencies.
  • •Strong Python scripting skills and comfort building automation for operational systems.
  • •Experience working across software systems, APIs, and infrastructure such as Docker (or similar DevOps environments).
Experience:Satellite operationsDevOpsProduction engineeringMission-critical systems
Skills:CommunicationCustomer focusCross-functional collaborationProblem-solvingWorking in high-pressure environments
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonAPIDockerDevOpsCUE

Company Brief

Loft Orbital Solutions
Provides satellite rideshare and mission integration services, offering turnkey spacecraft platforms, payload hosting, and mission operations to accelerate deployment of space-based payloads for commercial and government customers.
Industry: Space Technology
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Long Beach, United States
Founded: 2017
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