Jobs at Loft Orbital

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.

Build and own a space-based AI marketplace from MVP to scale, including its storefront, partner portal, admin tools, APIs, onboarding, entitlements, metering, integrations, deployment workflows, and third-party connectors. The role requires full-stack development, cloud-native infrastructure, multi-tenant authorization, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and close collaboration with engineering teams.

Lead a hands-on Manufacturing Engineering team supporting spacecraft assembly, integration, and production. Develop controlled process plans, work instructions, routings, BOMs, tooling, fixtures, and layouts; troubleshoot production issues; conduct root cause investigations; improve quality, throughput, ergonomics, and repeatability; ensure EBOM/MBOM/PBOM alignment; provide DFMA feedback; mentor engineers; and introduce scalable manufacturing technologies and automation. The role requires substantial on-site production-floor work in Golden, Colorado.

Set up and configure electrical test stations and fixtures, integrate and operate electronic test equipment, execute and document test procedures, analyze data, troubleshoot failures, maintain/calibrate equipment, and support test process improvements and technician training.

Own and optimize model compilation and delivery for edge accelerators; build compile/delivery pipelines, benchmarking and profiling tools; contribute to inference execution providers and SDK; coordinate with on-board software and runtime teams to meet power, thermal, and performance budgets.

Own the product roadmap for satellite and onboard AI services. Translate strategy, customer needs, and engineering constraints into requirements, use cases, success criteria, and Jira tickets. Lead customer discovery, partner engagement, market analysis, prioritization, business cases, and executive communication. Coordinate engineering, business development, program leadership, and executives while managing scope and delivery commitments. The role requires hands-on product management experience, aerospace or related domain expertise, technical fluency across hardware and software lifecycles, and willingness to travel.

Own the roadmap for a significant product area spanning satellite systems, onboard AI applications, and partner platforms. Translate strategy and customer needs into engineering requirements, prioritize capabilities, define success criteria, and coordinate delivery. Conduct customer discovery, analyze markets and business cases, communicate technical recommendations to executives, and align engineering, program leadership, business development, and partners around product direction.

Own the roadmap and product strategy for satellite, onboard AI, and space infrastructure services. Translate engineering capabilities and customer needs into requirements, use cases, success criteria, and Jira tickets. Conduct customer and partner discovery, analyze markets and business cases, prioritize scope, negotiate delivery commitments, and communicate recommendations to engineering, leadership, executives, marketing, and business development. The role requires strong technical understanding across hardware and software lifecycles, autonomy, and data-driven decision-making.

Build and maintain backend microservices that command, monitor, and automate satellites. Own Python services end-to-end, design APIs, handle commands and telemetry, integrate with flight and ground systems, support internal users, and occasionally participate in live spacecraft operations and incident response.

Build and scale backend microservices that command, monitor, and automate satellites. Own Python production services, design APIs, handle commands/telemetry across satellite buses, collaborate with flight and embedded teams, support internal users, and participate in SatDevOps rotations to operate spacecraft and debug live missions.

Build and refine Cockpit, Loft's satellite operations web apps. Develop and maintain SPAs using TypeScript and Vue/React, integrate GraphQL APIs, write unit and integration tests, collaborate on UI/UX, and support internal teams in satellite operations.

Drive program delivery and cross-functional coordination for Cloud, Test, and Space Infrastructure teams. Manage workload, on-call scheduling, risk register, and process improvements; facilitate Agile teams, surface dependencies and escalations, and enable reliable, scalable satellite operations.

Design, implement, and maintain onboard software packaging, deployment, and runtime infrastructure for satellites. Work across bundle management, Linux rootfs and service management, container runtime/environment and registries, CI/CD pipelines, and product validation to ensure reliable, secure execution of customer workloads in orbit.

Design, implement, and maintain onboard software packaging, deployment, and runtime container environments for satellites. Improve bundle management, Linux infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, validation, and scaling for multiple programs.

Manage full sales lifecycle for Loft's space mission services across the Americas: generate and qualify leads, develop proposals, negotiate contracts, and support accounts during program execution. Collaborate with sales engineering, product, and engineering teams to craft mission solutions for commercial and institutional customers.

Lead assembly, integration, and testing of RF subsystems for spacecraft. Develop test plans, execute RF performance and environmental tests (thermal vacuum, vibration, EMI/EMC), troubleshoot hardware, analyze and report results, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize RF system performance and ensure flight readiness.

Lead Loft's EMEA commercial and institutional sales, build and execute multi-year BD strategies, influence RFPs, manage proposal development, negotiate and close high-value contracts, and represent Loft to government agencies and commercial partners across Europe.

Lead ADCS performance, define guidance and attitude control requirements, develop and validate guidance algorithms, coordinate with bus suppliers, support customers and on-orbit operations, diagnose and resolve ADCS anomalies, and build common guidance services across multiple spacecraft platforms.