End-to-End Satellite Mission Delivery Engineer

Loft Orbital; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off (up to 35 days)

Health and life insurance

Lunch vouchers

Relocation assistance to Toulouse

Cross-office travel to San Francisco,

Job summary

Loft Orbital is seeking a Customer Delivery Engineer to own end-to-end deployment of customer satellite missions. You will translate mission objectives into executable workflows and tooling, sitting at the intersection of satellite operations, software, and program execution.

You will design mission applications on Loft's API, automate deployment with Python, and contribute to product improvements based on field experience and customer feedback.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in an operational engineering environment.
• Experience with satellite operations, spacecraft commissioning, or AIT.
• Strong Python scripting skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical interface for customer missions, aligning on objectives, managing expectations, and ensuring mission success.
• Own the full mission lifecycle, from requirements definition and ConOps design through launch, commissioning, on-orbit execution, anomaly triage, and long-term optimization.
• Operate Loft spacecraft and payloads on orbit, driving mission execution, anomaly resolution, and performance optimization across the fleet.
• Work directly with customers to design and implement mission applications on Loft's API and operational framework, enabling effective and scalable on-orbit operations.
• Develop mission tooling and automation in Python to improve reliability, adoption, and operational scale.
• Translate operational experience and customer feedback into concrete product improvements and roadmap input.

Tools

Docker

CUE

Job description

Loft Orbital is seeking a Customer Delivery Engineer to own end-to-end deployment of customer satellite missions. You will translate mission objectives into executable workflows and tooling, sitting at the intersection of satellite operations, software, and program execution.

You will design mission applications on Loft's API, automate deployment with Python, and contribute to product improvements based on field experience and customer feedback.