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Software Engineer, Satellite Operations (Starshield)

SpaceX · Hawthorne, Canada

Information Technology Software & Development Full-time Posted 4 days ago

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of&nbsp;enabling human life on Mars.</p></div><div class="react-pdf__Page css-117" data-page-number="1"> <div class="react-pdf__Page__textContent textLayer" data-main-rotation="0"><span id="p3R_mc3" class="markedContent"><strong>SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SATELLITE OPERATIONS (STARSHIELD)</strong><br><br></span><span id="p3R_mc7" class="markedContent"><span id="p3R_mc3" class="markedContent">Starshield leverages SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads.</span><br><br>As a software engineer working on Starshield’s GNC Operations Software team, you will write </span><span id="p3R_mc9" class="markedContent">software responsible for facilitating highly reliable, available, and autonomous operations of Starshield's satellite constellation

You will work on a wide variety of projects across both ground and flight software including satellite telemetry and alerting systems, full-stack operations tooling, autonomous satellite fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR), payload interface design, and ground service DevOps. In addition to developing software, you'll also be involved in day-to-day constellation performance monitoring and on-orbit investigations demanding good systems knowledge of the entire satellite constellation. Our software engineers work closely with a variety of other engineering disciplines such as GNC, Hardware, RF, etc

in order to diagnose on orbit issues, determine suitable recovery procedures, and implement long term solutions.</span><span id="p3R_mc11

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