<p>Orbital Sidekick (OSK) is helping companies meet their sustainable operation goals by creating the most advanced space-based hyperspectral infrastructure and spectral intelligence in existence. Our real-time insights enable unparalleled monitoring services for both commercial and defense users on a global scale. OSK is currently building its GHOSt hyperspectral satellite constellation for deployment in 2022. GHOSt will provide daily target monitoring services to OSK’s customers in the energy, mining, and defense sectors. Services will include oil and gas pipeline monitoring &amp; methane mapping, clean energy resource exploration, sustainable mining practices, precision agriculture and wildfire risk mitigation.</p>

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Enabling real-time, space-based monitoring for sustainable operations worldwide.

<div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Space is in our DNA. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. Orbital Sidekick is establishing a space-based infrastructure of HSI sensors and analytic capabilities to enable real-time monitoring, detection, and risk management. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">As a Senior Ground Software Operations Engineer reporting to our VP of Payload Engineering and working closely with our Analytics and Software teams, you will help build out the tools, processes and products critical to our customer’s success.</span></div><br><br><h3>What you’ll do:</h3><ul><li>Design software architecture that supports efficient upload and download of tasking and imagery data</li><li>Efficiently model tasking scenarios for a constellation of hyperspectral satellites</li><li>Perform trade studies on orbit positioning and maneuvers to maximize satellite coverage</li><li>Interface with the operations and software team to successfully execute targeted tasking with multiple space-based sensors</li><li>Write and maintain a modeling and simulation codebase that is used by multiple teams</li><li>Work with the OSK product team to deliver a high fidelity constellation tasking tool from simulation to execution</li><li>Develop and tune a scheduling algorithm for a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites</li></ul><h3>What you’ll need to succeed:</h3><ul><li>BS in Computer Science or Aerospace/Mechanical/Astronautical Engineering</li><li>5+ years of experience in the Aerospace/Space/Software industry</li><li>Experience in verification of tasking plans and spacecraft health and status</li><li>Strong proficiency in Python and/or C++</li><li>Firm understanding of Linux/Unix Operating System commands for scripting and commanding</li><li>Experience using software APIs to receive and send telemetry data</li><li>Excellent foundations of software architecture, interface design, distributed systems, and testing patterns</li><li>Strong communication skills with other disciplines and engineers </li></ul><h3>Bonus points if you have:</h3><ul><li>MS in Computer Science/Aerospace/Astronautical Engineering</li><li>Practitioner-level experience with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc)</li><li>Health and Status monitoring of satellite software systems experience</li><li>Knowledge of orbital mechanics and pointing/control algorithms for spacecraft</li><li>Spacecraft operations experience, downloading and uploading spacecraft control parameters</li></ul><h3>What we offer:</h3><ul><li>Competitive compensation and equity packages</li><li>Comprehensive health plan including health/dental/vision/wellness</li><li>Disability and Life insurance</li><li>401K program</li><li>Flexible time off</li><li>Commuter benefits</li><li>Learning and development opportunities</li><li>Monthly stipend for internet/cell phone/office expenses</li><li>Flexible in-office schedule with lunch Tuesday to Thursday in the San Francisco headquarters</li><li>Off-sites and team-building activities</li><li>Remote friendly (we hire in-office and remote employees in the United States)</li></ul><br><div>ITAR Requirements: U.S. Government space technologies export/ITAR regulations apply here, applicant must be a <a href="http://U.S.citizen">U.S.citizen</a> or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. </span></div>

Senior Ground Software Operations Engineer

<div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Space is in our DNA. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. Orbital Sidekick is establishing a space-based infrastructure of HSI sensors and analytic capabilities to enable real-time monitoring, detection, and risk management. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">In this dynamic and highly technical role as an Imagery Support Engineer, you will be a crucial part of our mission to deliver cutting-edge hyperspectral imagery to government and commercial clients. You will provide exceptional technical customer support, ensuring seamless delivery and optimization of our products. By collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will contribute to driving customer satisfaction, identifying opportunities for process improvement, and supporting our company's growth.</span></div><br><br><h3>What You'll Be Doing:</h3><ul><li>Understand customer tasking needs and requirements, and develop tasking schemas based on current and future capabilities.</li><li>Work with payload mission operations to optimize satellite tasking decks for OSK’s constellation.</li><li>Collaborate with payload mission operations to ensure tasking orders are executed as scheduled.</li><li>Develop and maintain metrics focused on tasking/collection efficiencies.</li><li>Provide advanced technical support for hyperspectral imagery products and services, including troubleshooting complex issues and providing solutions.</li><li>Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to improve product quality and efficiency.</li><li>Maximize resource utilization and ensure all deliveries meet client SLAs.</li><li>Develop and maintain technical documentation and training materials.</li><li>Perform quality assurance checks on hyperspectral imagery data, ensuring adherence to stringent standards.</li></ul><h3>Minimum Requirements:</h3><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS, Remote Sensing, or a related field</li><li>Minimum of 2 years of experience in a technical analytics </li><li>Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a startup environment</li><li>Proficiency in GIS software (ArcGIS, QGIS) and remote sensing data analysis techniques</li><li>Working knowledge of Python, GDAL, Jupyter and GitHub</li><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication abilities</li></ul><h3>Standout Candidates Will Have:</h3><ul><li>Master's degree in Geography, GIS, Remote Sensing, or a related field</li><li>Advanced working knowledge of Python, GDAL, Jupyter and GitHub</li><li>Experience with hyperspectral image processing and analysis</li><li>Familiarity with the geospatial intelligence industry, especially the US government</li><li>Sales or business development experience</li></ul><h3>Benefits of Working at OSK:</h3><ul><li>We offer competitive compensation and equity packages</li><li>Company-sponsored 401K, as well as medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% premiums covered by OSK for employees and 50% for dependents</li></ul><br><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">ITAR Requirements: U.S. Government space technologies export/ITAR regulations apply here, applicant must be a U.S.citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. </span></div>

Imagery Support Engineer

<div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Space is in our DNA. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. Orbital Sidekick is establishing a space-based infrastructure of HSI sensors and analytic capabilities to enable real-time monitoring, detection, and risk management. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">We’re looking for a Remote Sensing AI Researcher who will build out and design machine learning infrastructure for ateam of data &amp; remote sensing scientists, working collaboratively with the Analytics, and Software teams to deliver data-driven products and solutions. If you are a smart-creative individual seeking to innovate and produce real, tangible value; take ownership of your role and position within a cutting edge tech company; and inform the future vision of an up-and-coming San Francisco start-up, you’ll fit right in.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">You will contribute to a cross-functional team that is responsible for the full algorithm development process, all the way from human annotation to integration with the platform. Your role as Remote Sensing AI Researcher means that you will be responsible for developing new research that can lead to new products and publications. You will work collaboratively within the company to produce high-level engineering of both the data collection and information delivery platforms.</span></div><br><br><h3>As a Remote Sensing AI Researcher your responsibilities will include:</h3><ul><li>Conducting novel research applying AI/ML to OSK’s satellite hyperspectral imagery.</li><li>Helping transition research to production, deploying models for both batch and online inference as well as embedded on the satellites.</li><li>Produce analytical infrastructure for AI/ML pipeline development.</li><li>Inform colleagues and mentor Individual Contributors about AI/ML opportunities, and tasks.</li><li>Publish your research in geospatial and/or AI conferences, write blog posts to show off your work.</li></ul><h3>Basic qualifications:</h3><ul><li>3+ years experience in ML/AIMS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or similar.</li><li>Python, Pytorch, ML Flow/ClearML, DVC, Ray, Dask, Python data science stack</li><li>Comfortable training models in a cloud (AWS) environment as well as using best practices to track ML experiments.</li><li>Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a startup environment</li><li>Excellent written and oral communication skills. </li><li>Familiarity with common remote sensing data types and tools, GeoTiffs, GDAL rasterio, xarray.</li></ul><h3>Preferred Skills and Experience:</h3><ul><li>Relevant publications applying AI/ML to remote sensing data at top conferences.</li></ul><h3>Benefits of Working at OSK:</h3><ul><li>We offer competitive compensation and equity packages.</li><li>Company-sponsored 401K, as well as medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% premiums covered by OSK for employees and 50% for dependents.</li></ul><br><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">ITAR Requirements: U.S. Government space technologies export/ITAR regulations apply here, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. </span></div>

Remote Sensing AI Researcher

<div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Space is in our DNA. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. Orbital Sidekick is establishing a space-based infrastructure of HSI sensors and analytic capabilities to enable real-time monitoring, detection, and risk management. </span></div><div><br></div><div>As a Space Operations Engineer (Embedded) in our Payload Engineering Team, you will be working on creating the services to control our Satellites. Reporting directly to our VP of Payload Engineering and working closely with our Analytics, Software and Product Teams, you will help build out the tools, processes and products critical to our customers' success.</div><div><br></div><br><br><h3>What you'll do</h3><ul><li>Model tasking scenarios for a constellation of hyperspectral satellites</li><li>Perform trade studies on orbit positioning and maneuvers to maximize satellite coverage</li><li>Interface with the operations and software team to successfully execute targeted tasking with multiple space-based sensors</li><li>Test operations plans on ground hardware testbeds, and improving ground software test processes</li><li>Work with the OSK product team to deliver high fidelity constellation tasking plans</li><li>Verify and Validate tasking plans and spacecraft health and status</li><li>Troubleshoot and resolve payload on-orbit anomalies and findings</li><li>Optimize camera and optical systems to extract critical insights </li><li>Develop detailed understanding of onboard flight software hardware and software interfaces</li><li>Work with OSK’s algorithm team to implement onboard algorithms to high-bandwidth data-streams</li><li>Develop OSK’s data ingestion and processing capabilities for satellite as well as aerial hyperspectral images </li><li>Work with GPU cores to implement on-the-fly data corrections using a neural network</li><li>Incorporate payload and spacecraft bus command and control schemes</li></ul><h3>What you’ll have </h3><ul><li>BS in Aerospace/Mechanical/Astronautical engineering or Computer Science</li><li>3+ years of experience in the Aerospace/Space industry</li><li>Strong skills in C, C++, Linux Operating System on ARM</li><li>Spacecraft operations experience, downloading and uploading spacecraft control parameters</li><li>Ability to code in python for scripting, automation and algorithm integration purposes</li><li>Experience using software APIs to receive and send telemetry data</li><li>Knowledge of embedded communication protocols to control hardware sensors</li><li>Strong skills in data processing pipelines and algorithm runtime optimization</li></ul><h3>You'll stand out as a candidate if you have</h3><ul><li>MS in Aerospace/Astronautical Engineering or Computer Science</li><li>Familiarity with scalable software solutions</li><li>Health and Status monitoring of software systems</li><li>Firm understanding of optics, optical alignment, and spacecraft control</li><li>Experience with remote sensing data</li><li>Expertise in python and C++ software development</li></ul><br><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. </span></div>

Space Operations Engineer (Embedded Software)

<div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Space is in our DNA. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. Orbital Sidekick is establishing a space-based infrastructure of HSI sensors and analytic capabilities to enable real-time monitoring, detection, and risk management. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">We’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineer who will build out and design machine learning infrastructure for a team of data &amp; remote sensing scientists, working collaboratively with the Analytics and Software teams to deliver data-driven products and solutions. If you are a smart-creative individual seeking to innovate and produce real, tangible value; take ownership of your role and position within a cutting edge tech company; and inform the future vision of an up-and-coming San Francisco start-up, you’ll fit right in. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">You will contribute to a cross-functional team that is responsible for the full algorithm development process, all the way from human annotation to integration with the platform. Your role as Machine Learning Engineer means that you will be responsible for owning infrastructure for experiment tracking, model training/inference, dataset version control, and imagery annotation campaign creation and data extraction. You will work collaboratively within the company to produce high-level engineering of both the data collection and information delivery platforms.</span></div><br><br><h3>As a Machine Learning Engineer your responsibilities will include:</h3><ul><li>Setting up Machine Learning infrastructure including, model repositories, experiment tracking, workflow orchestration (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster) </li><li>Optimizing resources for both development and production in the cloudDeploying models for both batch and online inference</li><li>Establish model monitoring, model registries, experiment tracking, CI/CD, and continuous training </li><li>Role will initially be focused on setting up MLOps and then grow into researching, developing, debugging, and deploying models to production using our hyperspectral data</li></ul><h3>Basic qualifications:</h3><ul><li>3+ years postgraduate experience as a MLEBS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or similar.</li><li>Python, Pytorch, Weights and Biases, ML Flow, DVC, Ray, Dask, data science stack</li><li>Experience with deploying and monitoring models in clouds environments (AWS)</li><li>Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a startup environment</li><li>Comfortable with rapid decision-making and taking ownership of system design</li><li>Excellent written and oral communication skills</li></ul><h3>Standout candidates will have:</h3><ul><li>Experience in machine learning for remote sensing data,, hyperspectral data and Geospatial data</li><li>Familiarity with common remote sensing data types and tools, GeoTiffs, GDAL rasterio, xarray, ENVI</li></ul><h3>Benefits of working at OSK:</h3><ul><li>We offer competitive compensation and equity packages</li><li>Company-sponsored 401K, as well as medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% premiums covered by OSK for employees and 50% for dependents</li></ul><br><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">ITAR Requirements: U.S. Government space technologies export/ITAR regulations apply here, applicant must be a </span><a style="font-size:10.5pt;" href="http://U.S.citizen">U.S.citizen</a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. </span></div>

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