Senior Earth Observation Engineer

Loft Orbital Solutions
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 145,000 - 205,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Organizational skills","Respectful debate","Challenge assumptions","Pressure management"]

Serve as the technical authority for optical payloads, image quality, and Earth observation mission performance. Define imagery calibration and verification needs, work with mission, customer, and payload supplier teams to drive performance requirements, and develop on-board/on-ground data processing and test/calibration strategies. Support integration, test campaigns, and in-orbit commissioning, while helping build the Earth observation roadmap and support optical payload customer business development.

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Loft Orbital Solutions
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Senior Earth Observation Engineer

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Job Summary

Serve as the technical authority for optical payloads, image quality, and Earth observation mission performance. Define imagery calibration and verification needs, work with mission, customer, and payload supplier teams to drive performance requirements, and develop on-board/on-ground data processing and test/calibration strategies. Support integration, test campaigns, and in-orbit commissioning, while helping build the Earth observation roadmap and support optical payload customer business development.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define mission and payload requirements and verification techniques for Earth observation customers, flowing them down to software and hardware teams and suppliers.
  • •Drive optical payload development and test activities with suppliers.
  • •Develop on-ground and in-orbit test and calibration strategy with AIT and OPS teams, including on-board and on-ground data processing strategy.
  • •Support Lead Systems Engineer with mission CONOPS development.
  • •Participate in integration, test campaigns, launch, and in-orbit commissioning, and own development of the Earth observation roadmap.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 145,000 - 205,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife InsuranceDisability Insurance401kEquity OptionsPaid HolidaysParental LeaveRelocation

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience as a space systems engineer on Earth observation missions.
  • •Familiarity with image quality metrics and imagery calibration (geometric, radiometric, spectral).
  • •Good experience with optical payloads.
  • •Coded in Python for at least one year.
  • •Knowledge of deep learning/artificial neural networks and experience in optics and detector technologies.
Experience:5+ yearsSpace systems engineeringEarth observationAerospace engineering
Skills:CommunicationOrganizational skillsRespectful debateChallenge assumptionsPressure management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonDeep learningArtificial neural networksImage quality metricsImagery calibrationOptical payloadsOptical ground support equipmentADCSNavigation/flight dynamics

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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