Archangel Lightworks is a connectivity company building wireless technology to create the space-enabled networks of the future. We’re passionate about improving humanity’s communications infrastructure and solving some of Earth’s most critical problems from economic inclusion to climate change. Our start-up is a fast-paced and supportive environment, where you can make your mark as part of a growing team and work on the cutting-edge of innovation.
We’re looking for a software engineer to help our experienced engineering team to deliver transformative laser communications technology. You will be responsible for connecting our ground stations to the cloud, enabling remote operations and interfacing with wider satellite and communications systems. In this role, you will work closely with the other parts of our software team and our systems engineering team.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Connecting optical ground stations to cloud services
- Delivering dashboards and user interfaces for remote operation of ground stations
- Developing and deploying APIs and algorithms for interactions with external systems
- Defining and implementing cloud architecture and services for new communications products
Requirements:
- Experience of IoT systems integration, protocols, and services, including gRPC and MQTT
- Cloud architecture and service implementation, including dashboards, databases, APIs, security / authentication for IoT systems
- Linux Development with Python
- At least 5 years commercial experience
Desirable additional skills:
- Service deployment, including IaC, containers, Docker etc
- WAN networking and network performance modelling / optimisation
- CI/CD pipelines, GIT version control, scripting, automation
- Experience and interest in space industry
- System modelling, including Matlab / Simulink
- AI / ML, particularly for optimisation
Location: Hybrid with travel when required. Our office is based in Osney Mead, Oxford.
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What We Do
Archangel Lightworks is a laser communications company building high-volume, secure, wireless technology to create the space-enabled networks of the future. Today, space and terrestrial networks are not well-connected leading to insecure, insufficient, and vulnerable infrastructure. Nearly 3 billion people are unconnected and many more are under-connected. Subsea cables, which form the backbone of global network infrastructure, are at risk from climate disaster and bad actors. Links between satellites, which offer an opportunity for resilient connectivity, and the ground are reliant on radio, which is bandwidth constrained, finite and not secure. Archangel Lightworks was set up to solve the space-ground connectivity problem. Wireless laser communications (lasercom) technology offers new solutions; however, adoption of the technology has been slow due to availability concerns, lack of interoperability standards, difficulties associated with lasercom on the move, and high production costs. Our tech solves these problems. We are driving down the size, weight, power & cost (SWaP-C) of optical ground equipment to make space-ground lasercom available and affordable. Our core product, TERRA-M is a miniature optical ground station which is approximately the size of a mini fridge. Compared to traditional networks such as radio, the TERRA-M allows more licence-free data transferred at low probability of detection (LPD) and low probability of interception (LPI). TERRA-M brings deployable, resilient connectivity to wherever it is needed, solving some of Earth’s most critical problems from economic inclusion to climate change. Archangel Lightworks is based in Oxford, UK and Archangel Lightworks USA is based in Orlando, Florida.
