Scheduling Software Engineer — Orbital Mathematics

Spire Global; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Spire Global seeks a Mathematical Software Engineer to enhance our ground-based scheduling systems for nanosatellite constellation and ground stations. You will design, build and deploy features for automated planning over upcoming hours and days, improving resilience and capabilities of the scheduling platform.

You will contribute to developing new scheduling capabilities, iterate with stakeholders, and support live operations while improving the development environment and processes.

Qualifications

• Strong mathematics or modelling systems skills.
• Proven ability to write robust software applications.
• Comfort working in a dynamic environment while delivering on evolving requirements.
• Solid understanding of software practices such as version control, testing, debugging and build systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop new scheduling capabilities including orbital maneuver planning or ground-system contact scheduling strategies.
• Iterate on features based on stakeholder feedback and evolving requirements.
• Build and refine observability dashboards and alerts.
• Support live operations of constellation scheduling software.

Skills

Mathematics

Rust programming

Software robustness

Version control

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or Mathematics

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Spire Global seeks a Mathematical Software Engineer to enhance our ground-based scheduling systems for nanosatellite constellation and ground stations. You will design, build and deploy features for automated planning over upcoming hours and days, improving resilience and capabilities of the scheduling platform.

You will contribute to developing new scheduling capabilities, iterate with stakeholders, and support live operations while improving the development environment and processes.