Senior Mathematical Software Engineer

Spire is seeking a qualified Senior Mathematical Software Engineer to develop its ground-based systems responsible for scheduling tasks across its nanosatellite constellation and ground station network.   

As a Senior Mathematical Software Engineer in the Constellation Scheduling team you will contribute to the development of our intelligent automated systems for planning the tasks Spire satellites will execute in orbit over the upcoming hours and days. These include collections of data from space, radio communication sessions with ground stations and other satellites, and propulsive maneuvers aimed at satisfying multi-satellite positioning goals.   You will be given the opportunity to design, build, deploy and maintain major new features of our scheduling systems, leveraging technologies such as Rust (our primary programming language), AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub and Combinatorial Optimization. 

You will collaborate closely with other team members to address development challenges as they arise. You will also work with operations, commercial and hardware / software engineering teams to understand requirements, develop designs and to communicate the scheduling team's work to the wider company. 

 
What You'll Do:

• Contribute to the development of Spire's existing scheduling systems: design, implementation and deployment.  

• Develop new scheduling systems e.g. in the area of orbital maneuver planning or orbital payload scheduling   

• Take an active role in reviewing work by other team members.  

• Actively improve the team's development environment and processes.  

• Liaise with adjacent operations, commercial and engineering teams to evolve requirements and designs, to resolve any challenges and to explain our technologies.  

• Present the scheduling team's work to a wider audience within the company.  

• Investigate and mitigate issues that arise in production systems.  

Key Skills:

• Solid understanding of software practices such as version control, testing, design, debugging and build systems.  

• 5+ years experience in professional software development  

• Proficiency in programming languages, including both interpreted and compiled and both dynamically and strongly typed.  

• Cloud / containerization technologies such as AWS, terraform, docker, kubernetes, microservices.  

• Confidence with mathematics / mathematical concepts 

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or other numerate discipline  

 Preferred Skills:

• Experience in modeling and tuning complex systems  

• Orbital mechanics and maneuver planning 

• Combinatorial optimization and/or mixed integer programming 

• Programming in Rust 

• Programming in Python 

• Linux 

• RDBMs, PostgreSQL 

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. #LI-MI