Engineer, Software & Autonomy

At Space-ng, we build autonomy for the space industry.

Our vision navigation software was a mission-critical component of the first fully successful commercial moon landing in history.

Our computer vision system, Astro Vision, combines a flexible, multi-camera hardware concept with onboard perception, navigation, and state estimation.

We are hands-on in mission control, at the launchpad, and in our manufacturing facility.

We’re a small group of engineers and applied researchers, growing carefully to assemble a thoughtful, deeply technical team.

If you have expertise in any of the following areas, an interest in the others, and an appetite for hard problems, you may be a fit for this role.

• Geometric (classical) and deep-learned methods
• SLAM
• 3D reconstruction
• Pose estimation
• Sensor calibration
• Bundle adjustment
• Computational photography

• Non-linear optimization
• Motion planning
• Optimal control
• Hands-on experience with libraries including Eigen, Ceres, Sophus, GTSAM, or g2o

• Physically-based rendering
• Ray tracing
• Differentiable and data-driven methods
• OpenGL
• GPGPU computing
• Simulation (e.g. of an imaging pipeline)
• Visualization

• C++ and Python
• Systems programming
• Scientific computing
• Embedded/robotics frameworks
• Low-latency and real-time computing
• Heterogeneous compute
• Tools and developer experience

• Spacecraft dynamics and modeling
• State estimation
• Guidance
• Control theory
• Orbit determination
• Sensor modeling
• Optical navigation
• Flight software
• Monte Carlo analysis

Salary Range: $140,000 - $180,000/year.

Note that to conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Space-ng employees must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.