Space Infrastructure Software Engineer - Flight Director

Ifairworthy; Toulouse; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Equity

Paid Time Off (35 days)

Health and life insurance

Lunch vouchers

Travel opportunities (SF, CO, Toulouse

Off-sites and team events

Relocation assistance to Toulouse

Résumé du poste

Loft is seeking a Space Infrastructure Software Engineer to scale and operate a heterogeneous fleet of satellites, spanning ground and flight software. You will work on automation, tooling, and fleet health, with opportunities to become a Flight Director and lead incident responses.

You will contribute across software and hardware layers, participate in the SatDevOps Academy, and collaborate with product teams to continuously improve the space infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Proven experience developing software with automation skills.
• Work across full software and hardware stack (ground and space-based).
• Proficiency in Python and Git.
• Willingness to train as satellite controller and Flight Director (on-call rotation).
• Pragmatic mindset balancing long-term reliability with short- and mid-term solutions.
• Accountability and autonomy; comfortable owning and delivering results.
• Open to learning and tackling unfamiliar challenges.

Responsabilités

• Develop and maintain software systems to autonomously operate satellites.
• Build tools and libraries to enable teams to operate on Loft's satellite platform.
• Scale satellite operations software for a growing fleet.
• Collaborate with product teams to implement improvements.
• Contribute to SatDevOps Academy training program.
• Serve as rotating Flight Director overseeing incident response and fleet health.

Connaissances

Python

Git

Automation

Satellites operations

Outils

Docker

Lua

Linux

CI/CD pipelines

Test engineering

Description du poste

Loft is seeking a Space Infrastructure Software Engineer to scale and operate a heterogeneous fleet of satellites, spanning ground and flight software. You will work on automation, tooling, and fleet health, with opportunities to become a Flight Director and lead incident responses.

You will contribute across software and hardware layers, participate in the SatDevOps Academy, and collaborate with product teams to continuously improve the space infrastructure.