Jobs at Loft Orbital

Own full-cycle recruiting for specialized hardware and product engineering roles supporting satellite design, production, integration, and operations. Source passive candidates, develop talent pipelines, conduct screens, assess technical alignment, manage interviews, and partner with hiring managers. Recruit across mechanical, electrical, embedded, firmware, RF, systems, and hardware test disciplines, using technical knowledge to translate requirements into effective sourcing strategies. Maintain ATS data, provide market insights, and support hiring in aerospace and other complex hardware environments.

Own full-cycle recruiting for specialized software and product engineering roles supporting satellite platforms, mission operations, ground systems, and product development. Source passive candidates, translate technical requirements into sourcing strategies, conduct screens, manage candidate communications, maintain ATS pipelines, and partner with hiring managers to improve hiring outcomes.

Owns full-cycle recruiting for specialized hardware and product engineering roles supporting satellite design, production, integration, and operations. Sources passive candidates, translates technical requirements into sourcing strategies, conducts screens, manages interview processes, maintains ATS pipelines, and partners with hiring managers on talent-market insights. The role focuses on mechanical, electrical, embedded, firmware, RF, systems, and hardware test recruiting within aerospace, space, defense, or related deep-tech industries.

Own full-cycle recruiting for specialized software and product engineering roles supporting satellite platforms, mission operations, ground systems, and product development. Source passive candidates, translate technical requirements into sourcing strategies, conduct screens, manage candidate communication, maintain ATS pipelines, and partner with hiring managers. The role also involves building niche talent pipelines, presenting the company’s mission and culture, and reporting recruiting insights and metrics.

Source and engage specialized hardware and engineering candidates for Loft Orbital’s technical hiring needs. Responsibilities include proactive headhunting, talent mapping, market research, candidate outreach, technical alignment evaluation, pipeline development, and sourcing strategy across multiple requisitions. The role partners with recruiters and hiring managers, uses LinkedIn Recruiter and ATS tools, tracks outreach activity, and supports remote recruiting operations on a six-month contract.

Design and maintain a centralized SQL Server database, data model, and Python/SQL ETL pipelines integrating business systems such as NetSuite, Arena, ION, and Jira. Build Power BI dashboards and KPI reports, support NetSuite customizations, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver integrations and technical solutions. The role also promotes data quality, governance, documentation, and change control.

Build and scale Python backend microservices for Loft’s satellite mission control system. Design APIs, process commands and telemetry, integrate satellite platforms, and improve operator workflows and debugging tools. Collaborate with flight software, embedded systems, testing, and satellite operations teams. Support production deployments, live mission debugging, anomaly investigation, and occasional real-time incident response through SatDevOps rotations.

Leads business development and market creation across the Americas commercial space ecosystem. Identifies and originates opportunities with satellite operators, spacecraft manufacturers, launch providers, and strategic partners; develops relationships with senior technical and business leaders; and guides complex opportunities from early concepts through proposals, negotiations, contracts, initial missions, and constellation-scale programs. Requires deep space-industry knowledge, consultative selling expertise, partnership development, and regular customer travel.

Monitor and forecast program financial performance, including P&Ls, costs, cash flows, budgets, EACs, risks, and opportunities. Lead program and operating expense reviews, analyze variances, support revenue recognition and new program setup, and partner with Accounting, HR, Program Managers, Department Heads, and US FP&A. Contribute to budgeting, financial modeling, reporting improvements, automation, and decision support in an international aerospace scale-up.

Provides onsite and global IT support across Colorado offices, handling service desk tickets, hardware, applications, networking, SaaS permissions, onboarding, device provisioning, documentation, audits, lab systems, and conference-room AV. The role administers Mac, Windows, and Linux devices through Fleet and manages Okta, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, and Atlassian access. It also supports procurement, network upgrades, facilities technology, and the potential ownership of the global IT service desk.

Design, develop, test, review, and maintain reliable onboard spacecraft software for Hyperdrive, including core mission services, fault detection, lifecycle management, and spacecraft interfaces. Contribute to software architecture, development standards, CI and build processes, release coordination, and satellite fleet operations. Work with C/C++, Python, distributed systems, networking protocols, multithreaded applications, embedded Linux, and related tools.

Design, implement, test, review, and maintain reliable onboard software for satellite core services, including file transfer, synchronization, automation, scheduling, attitude control, and navigation. Contribute to software architecture, development standards, continuous integration, release coordination, and operation of Loft’s on-orbit satellite fleet.

Designs, implements, tests, reviews, and maintains onboard software for satellite core services, including file transfer, synchronization, automation, scheduling, attitude control, and navigation. The role contributes to software architecture, development standards, CI/CD, release coordination, and reliable operation of an on-orbit satellite fleet. Requires C/C++, Python, distributed systems, networking, POSIX, multithreading, version control, build systems, and continuous integration experience.

Develop and maintain onboard software integrating spacecraft peripherals and payloads with standardized satellite APIs. Responsibilities include software design, implementation, code reviews, testing, architecture contributions, Git-based collaboration, continuous integration, release coordination, and supporting operation of Loft’s on-orbit satellite fleet. The role requires C/C++, Python, distributed systems, networking, POSIX, multithreading, build systems, and prior team leadership experience.

Design, implement, test, review, and release reliable onboard spacecraft software for Hyperdrive, including mission logic, fault detection, recovery, lifecycle management, and spacecraft interfaces. Contribute to architecture and development standards, coordinate releases with downstream teams, and participate in operating Loft’s on-orbit satellite fleet.

Design, implement, test, review, and maintain reliable onboard spacecraft software for monitoring, control, mission logic, fault detection, recovery, and lifecycle management. Contribute to software architecture, development standards, release coordination, and operation of Loft’s on-orbit satellite fleet. The role requires strong C/C++, Python, distributed systems, networking, multithreading, version control, CI, and build-system experience.

Leads the embedded software and FPGA engineering organization, owning technical roadmaps, hardware-abstraction architecture, platform interfaces, and engineering standards across satellite systems. Guides Linux, Yocto, CI/CD, secure environments, hypervisors, RISC-V, and Rust technology choices while driving reliability, integration, verification, and operational readiness. Manages distributed teams, develops technical leaders, removes blockers, and represents the organization with customers, partners, and government or defense stakeholders.

Own and grow Orbitworks’ social media presence across LinkedIn, Instagram, and other platforms. Responsibilities include creating content, managing editorial calendars, developing paid campaigns, targeting audiences, monitoring budgets, analyzing performance, preparing reports, and optimizing content and campaigns. The role also requires collaboration with marketing, communications, design, and technical teams while maintaining consistent brand voice and staying current with social media trends.

Build and own Loft Orbital’s AI marketplace, including the storefront, partner portal, admin tools, APIs, catalog, onboarding, entitlements, metering, authentication, deployment workflows, and third-party integrations. The role involves full-stack TypeScript and React development, backend services, cloud-native infrastructure on GCP, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and end-to-end feature ownership in a small team.

Build and own a space-based AI marketplace from MVP to scale, including the storefront, partner portal, admin tools, APIs, onboarding, entitlements, metering, integrations, deployment workflows, and third-party connectors. The role requires end-to-end full-stack development, cloud-native infrastructure, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, secure multi-tenant authorization, and collaboration with engineering teams. The founding developer will ship weekly on a small team and use AI-assisted development workflows.