Senior Engineer, Mission Planning

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⚔️ Virginia, Washington – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $120k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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BlackSky

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

Logistics • Consulting • Defense

BlackSky is a real-time space-based intelligence company that provides satellite imagery and AI-enabled analytics to help governments and businesses anticipate and understand changes in global conditions. Their platform, BlackSky Spectra®, offers on-demand imagery and analysis for strategic decision-making, leveraging high-frequency monitoring satellite constellations. BlackSky's services are valuable for national security, economic analysis, and situational awareness. The company delivers insights that give customers a decisive advantage by securing foresight into changing global dynamics.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the mission planning integrated product team, interfacing with mission planning, ground software, operations, and product engineers to plan and execute autonomous constellation operations software features • Model, implement, and test concepts of operation for autonomous planning of imaging, system calibration, propulsion, and other critical constellation activities • Leverage heritage algorithms, build novel algorithms, and develop problem formulations to optimize image capture planning while respecting constraints and other activities • Model satellite communications, power, and attitude subsystems to support Mission Planning functions • Support ongoing constellation operations and customer fulfillment as a mission planning subject matter expert • Translate product concepts into engineering requirements and facilitate review among engineering, product, and software stakeholders • Provide occasional 24/7 support during Launch and Early Operations or Anomaly Response to debug and fix mission planning algorithms • Develop and track system-level requirements, schedules, and technical implementation through on-orbit operation • Develop prototype code in Python or Go and internal tooling for KPI measurement, performance troubleshooting, and identifying and correcting planning algorithm inefficiencies • Perform other relevant duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or higher in aerospace or mechanical engineering, systems engineering, computer science or equivalent • At least six (6) years of relevant professional experience • Experience with automation of complex systems • Experience with planning or optimization algorithms and fluency with inputs/outputs/constraints to such systems • Experience writing technical requirements and driving to implementation • Experience with project management or software product development • Working knowledge of Go or Python • 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 • 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 program this role supports requires US citizenship • U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, protected individual status, or eligibility to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations for ITAR compliance

🏖️ 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