Flight Dynamics Software Engineer — Equity & Impact

Loft Orbital; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Paid time off

Health and life insurance

Lunch vouchers

Job summary

Loft Orbital is hiring a Flight Dynamics Software Engineer to join the Ground Platform team. You will work on algorithms for orbit determination, orbit propagation, maneuver planning, and conjunction assessment, contributing to open-source tooling used by flight operations and simulations.

You will develop the in-house ground software backend that computes and serves ephemerides, maneuvers, and target orbits while interfacing with mission engineers to translate requirements into operational

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline is required.
• Deep technical understanding of orbital mechanics, state estimation, maneuver planning, conjunction assessment, and attitude modeling.
• Fundamentals of numerical methods: solvers, optimization, simulation techniques.
• Experience designing and developing software libraries and backend services in Python.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement and improve algorithms for orbit determination, propagation, maneuver planning, conjunction assessment, collision avoidance, and attitude modeling for open-source astrodynamics tooling.
• Develop and maintain in-house flight dynamics ground software backend applications that compute and serve ephemerides, maneuvers, conjunctions, and target orbits.
• Interface with systems and mission engineers to translate requirements into operational outcomes in orbit.
• Support satellite operations engineers with astrodynamics expertise during LEOP/anomalies/conjunction response and software configuration for missions.

Skills

Orbital mechanics

State estimation

Maneuver planning

Conjunction assessment

Attitude modeling

Numerical methods

Solvers

Optimization

Python programming

System integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline

Master’s degree in physics or engineering (nice to have)

Tools

STK

Astrogator

GMAT

OreKit

OpenSpaceToolkit

Job description

Loft Orbital is hiring a Flight Dynamics Software Engineer to join the Ground Platform team. You will work on algorithms for orbit determination, orbit propagation, maneuver planning, and conjunction assessment, contributing to open-source tooling used by flight operations and simulations.

You will develop the in-house ground software backend that computes and serves ephemerides, maneuvers, and target orbits while interfacing with mission engineers to translate requirements into operational