Senior Remote Sensing & Signal-Processing Engineer

Ursa Space Systems; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Compensation

Discretionary PTO

Stock Options

401(k) Match

Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage

Educational Assistance

Professional Development Opportunities

Job summary

Ursa Space Systems is seeking a Remote Sensing & Signal Processing Software Engineer to join a fast-moving team building geospatial analytics for national-security and commercial customers. The role requires deep software engineering skills, hands-on work with sensor data, and end-to-end data pipelines.

You will design, implement, and integrate algorithms and software across back-end services, data processing, and APIs, collaborating with systems engineers, data scientists, and domain experts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, algorithm development, signal processing, remote sensing, systems engineering, or a closely related field.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals.
• Professional experience developing software using Python.
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating software systems rather than solely performing analysis or research.
• Experience working with remote-sensing, SAR, RF, or other signal-derived data.
• Understanding of signal-processing concepts and their application to real-world sensor systems.
• Ability to understand complex systems and the relationships between individual components.
• Experience contributing to software or systems architecture and technical design.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple technical disciplines and translate between software, algorithms, data, and systems engineering teams.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, and maintain software supporting remote sensing and signal-processing applications.
• Develop software and algorithms for processing, transforming, analyzing, and exploiting complex sensor and geospatial data.
• Apply strong computer science and software engineering principles to technically complex problems.
• Develop and maintain applications and data-processing pipelines using Python and other appropriate programming languages.
• Contribute to full-stack software development, including backend services, data processing, orchestration, and APIs as applicable.
• Translate remote-sensing and signal-processing requirements into scalable software architectures and technical solutions.
• Work across the complete system to understand how sensors, SAR, RF/radar systems, signal processing, algorithms, data pipelines, software, and applications interact.
• Participate in system architecture, technical design, integration, and implementation activities.
• Develop and integrate algorithms for processing and exploiting remote-sensing and other sensor-derived data.
• Work with large, complex, and potentially heterogeneous datasets.
• Support the development of automated workflows and orchestration systems for data and algorithm processing.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, analysts, data scientists, software engineers, and domain experts.
• Participate in technical planning and contribute to project-level architecture and engineering decisions.
• Contribute to testing, debugging, performance optimization, and deployment.
• Document software architecture, technical designs, interfaces, and engineering decisions.
• Provide technical leadership on projects and workstreams.
• Based on the needs of the company, you may be required to work occasional nights and weekends.
• All other duties as assigned

Skills

Python

Remote sensing

Signal processing

Systems engineering

Software architecture

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering

Job description

Ursa Space Systems is seeking a Remote Sensing & Signal Processing Software Engineer to join a fast-moving team building geospatial analytics for national-security and commercial customers. The role requires deep software engineering skills, hands-on work with sensor data, and end-to-end data pipelines.

You will design, implement, and integrate algorithms and software across back-end services, data processing, and APIs, collaborating with systems engineers, data scientists, and domain experts.