Flight Dynamics Software Engineer – Scale 50+ Satellites

Frontdoor Defense; Toulouse; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

35 days PTO + flexible hours

Health and life insurance

Lunch vouchers

Travel opportunities across San Francs

Off-sites and team events

Relocation assistance to Toulouse

Job summary

Loft Orbital in Toulouse is seeking a Flight Dynamics Software Engineer to join the Ground Platform team. You will develop and maintain the flight dynamics software stack to scale for 50+ satellites and ensure automated, reliable, and safe operations.

You will implement orbit determination/propagation and attitude modeling, contribute to open-source tooling, and build backend services that manage ephemerides, maneuvers, and conjunction data for multiple missions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline.
• Strong background in orbital mechanics and state estimation.
• Experience with software libraries and backend services, preferably in Python.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Implement and improve orbit determination and propagation algorithms.
• Develop and maintain in-house flight dynamics backend applications for ephemerides and maneuvers.
• Interface with mission engineers to translate requirements into operational outcomes.
• Support LEOP/anomalies/conjunction response and configure software for missions.

Skills

Orbital mechanics

State estimation

Maneuver planning

Conjunction assessment

Attitude modeling

Numerical methods

Python

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics or an engineering discipline

Tools

STK

Astrogator

GMAT

OreKit

OpenSpaceToolkit

Job description

Loft Orbital in Toulouse is seeking a Flight Dynamics Software Engineer to join the Ground Platform team. You will develop and maintain the flight dynamics software stack to scale for 50+ satellites and ensure automated, reliable, and safe operations.

You will implement orbit determination/propagation and attitude modeling, contribute to open-source tooling, and build backend services that manage ephemerides, maneuvers, and conjunction data for multiple missions.