Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Anduril Industries is a defense technology company developing advanced systems for U.S. and allied military capabilities. The Orbital Analyst, Space Ground Systems, supports observatory operations, edge computing configuration, satellite tracking data analysis, and maintenance of the space object catalog. The role also involves monitoring telescope network operations, troubleshooting issues, analyzing metrics, and contributing to software solutions on a 24/7 team.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to monitoring and analysis of global telescope network operations
- Identify knowledge articles and SOPs for network operations
- Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps
- Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring
- Contribute to software solutions to increase efficiency
- Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
Skills
- Engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and detailed requirements
- Capable of solving complex technical problems with little oversight
- Clear communication and organizational skills including documentation and training material
- Comfort working in a monitoring and operations environment that may include shift, on-call and/or extended hours coverage
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
- Experience with orbital mechanics and characteristics of satellite orbit regimes
- Familiarity with space domain awareness concepts, space object catalogs and/or conjunction/maneuver analysis
- Exposure to telescope, or other phenomenology, observation data
- At least 3+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc
- A desire to work on critical software in the space domain
- Be prepared to discuss shift availability for a 24/7 team
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers.
- Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
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