BlackSky is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join BlackSky, a real-time intelligence company, as a Staff Software Engineer in Mission Planning. Develop and track requirements, schedules, and technical implementation for mission planning products. Contribute to an integrated product team, model and implement concepts of operation, and develop production-level software in Go.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or higher in one of the following fields: computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another computational field
• At least twelve (12) years of relevant software development experience
• Familiarity with satellite first principals such as orbital mechanics, attitude dynamics, and satellite systems
• Experience writing technical requirements and driving to implementation
• Expert level proficiency in one or more compiled multi-threaded programming languages
• Working knowledge of Go or Python
• Expert knowledge of software design, maintenance, and implementation including data structures, data retrieval and storage, algorithm efficiency, and maintainable scalable code
• Expertise in software/hardware performance characteristics
• 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
• Must be a US citizen

Responsibilities

• Contribute to mission planning integrated product team, interfacing with mission planning, ground software, and product engineers to plan and execute autonomous constellation operations software products
• Model, implement, and test concepts of operation for autonomous planning of various constellation activities including imaging, system calibration, propulsion, or other critical activities
• Model satellite subsystems (communications, power, attitude) using methods that are compatible with existing and future ground and control software algorithms as needed to support Mission Planning functions
• Develop production-level software in Go specifically for mission planning algorithms and supporting subroutines
• Support ongoing constellation operations and customer fulfillment efforts as a mission planning subject matter expert
• Translate product concepts to engineering requirements and facilitate review and discussion among stakeholders
• Occasional 24/7 support expected during Launch and Early Operations or Anomaly Response in support of debugging and fixing mission planning algorithms
• Independently design and implement software improvements or features in support of mission planning with limited to no direction
• Other job-related duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with automation of complex systems (satellite, vehicle fleets, drones, etc.)
• Strong familiarity with orbital mechanics, attitude dynamics, and satellite systems
• Expertise in low-level performance tuning such as processor cache optimization, and optimizing data structure memory layouts, and saturating data buses to maximize performance
• Experience with planning algorithms and fluency with inputs/outputs/constraints to such systems
• Expertise with integer or linear program solvers

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
• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
• Employer matching donations
• Professional development
• Mac or PC? Your choice!
• Awesome swag