Staff SW Engineer, Mission Management
About The Position
BlackSky is seeking a strong, self-starting engineer to join their Mission Management Engineering team. This team is responsible for developing and maintaining optimal, automated autonomous operations for the BlackSky constellation. The role involves software system design and architecture, data structures, efficient data storage and retrieval, software performance and scaling, and efficient maintainable algorithm implementation. The candidate should have solid experience in developing and deploying production-level systems at scale. In this role, you will develop and track requirements, schedules, and technical implementation for a wide variety of mission management products and see them through to operation on orbit. Opportunities will exist for production code development in Python and Go. As you learn the BlackSky automated software architecture, you will be expected to grow into technical or functional leadership after demonstrated capability for individual contribution and development of expert level of knowledge of the system. This position reports to the Director, Mission Management. While the locations listed in the job posting are ideal, we would love candidates near Seattle, WA offices. We may also consider remote candidates in certain states.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or higher in computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another computational field or equivalent experience.
- A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant software development experience.
- Fluency in Python, a strong understanding of Go, and comfortable using other languages when necessary.
- Expert knowledge of software design, maintenance, and implementation including data structures, data retrieval and storage, algorithm efficiency, and maintainable scalable code.
- Demonstrated initiative to identify and solve problems or inefficiencies in your current field of expertise.
- Possess strong team and inter-team cooperation and organization skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a strong understanding of audience.
- Ability to sustain a workload consisting of several concurrent, independent activities.
- This position requires U.S. citizenship or status as a U.S. person
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with satellite first principals such as orbital mechanics, attitude dynamics, and satellite systems.
- Expertise in software/hardware performance characteristic.
- Experience with automation of complex systems (satellite, vehicle fleets, drones, etc.).
- Knowledge of geospatial systems or data.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain software for the components making up BlackSky’s mission management services.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and team planning discussions.
- Take an active role in testing, debugging, and documenting implemented software functionality.
- Proactively identify problems with requirements (lack of clarity, inconsistencies, technical limitations) and communicates these issues early.
- Interface with mission planning, ground software, and platform engineers to plan and execute autonomous constellation operations software products.
- Assist with operational tasks to ensure stability in production environments and support ongoing constellation operations and customer fulfillment efforts
- Support on-call rotations and troubleshooting of live system operations as needed.
- Support Launch and Early Operations of new satellites.
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
- 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
- Employer matching donations
- Professional development
- Mac or PC? Your choice!
- Awesome swag
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
