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About the Role

Loft is seeking an Attitude Guidance & Performance Engineer to be the technical authority for ADCS performance, guidance algorithms, and attitude control across Loft missions. This role involves defining performance requirements, developing and validating guidance solutions, supporting in-orbit operations, and resolving complex attitude control challenges. You will contribute to building a common guidance service for multiple spacecraft platforms and diverse customer missions.

Responsibilities

Work with Programs Lead Systems Engineers to define performance requirements, consolidate budgets, and ADCS allocations
Develop and validate the attitude guidance algorithms (on-ground or in orbit)
Develop the ADCS calibration strategy
Coordinate with the bus suppliers to ensure a follow-up and anomaly resolution
Support customer interactions for ADCS performance
Be the technical reference for attitude control matters for the in-orbit fleet
Diagnose and troubleshoot the ADCS anomalies

Requirements

5+ years of proven experience as an attitude control architect or engineer
Strong communication and organizational skills
Challenges conventional aerospace engineering and testing practices, and/or has experience in a fast-paced development environment
Performs well under pressure and is always ready to be hands-on
Extensive knowledge of Python
Experience with Flight / Orbital Dynamics, in addition to attitude control
Experience with Earth Observation missions
International experience

Skills

Attitude control
Guidance algorithms
Mission performance
Attitude dynamics
Guidance and control
On-orbit operations
Python
Flight / Orbital Dynamics
Earth Observation missions

Location

San Francisco, CA
Golden, CO
Toulouse, France

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5+ years

Salary/Compensations

$130,000 - $190,000

About the Company

Loft: Space Made Simple.
Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.
We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more.
Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months.
With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.

Equal Opportunity

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes.