Engineering Lead - Orbit Control Software

Engineering Lead - Orbit Control Software

ICEYE

Espoo, Finland

Why this role?

ICEYE operates the world’s largest commercial SAR constellation and is the leading company delivering full systems to customers across the world . Your mission is to keep it flying perfectly. You’ll lead a small, empowered team that blends orbital mechanics with modern software engineering, turning algorithms into customer-visible impact every week.

What you’ll do

• Lead & mentor and staff a cross-functional squad of flight-dynamics and software engineers; set direction, unblock execution, and grow talent;
• Own the orbit-control roadmap - repeat ground-track, orbital-tube control, collision avoidance, formation flying - building the right tools and choosing the right tech and tactics to keep the fleet on station and enable customer to succeed with their operations;
• Design and ship software for maneuver planning, orbit determination, and on-orbit automation. We code primarily in Python and deploy through CI/CD to a Kubernetes-based ground segment;
• Prioritize ruthlessly & deliver: translate mission goals into clear, testable milestones; maintain a healthy backlog; drive releases that reach operations continuously;
• Collaborate widely with mission operations, payload, analytics, and ground-systems teams to make sure orbit solutions align with customer needs.

Requirements

About you

• At heart, you are a SW engineer who is comfortable diving deep into code (Python, C++), knows how to lead architecting and delivering SW in fast paced environments, but can take care for disciplines like testing, releasing, deployment and observability;
• You have made or want to make the transition from individual contributor to an engineering leader with higher leverage impact but keep software engineering close;
• Experienced in engineering leadership - leading projects or small software teams, setting technical direction, supporting engineers’ growth;
• You’ve built and operated complex systems that include SW and HW together. If those are mission-analysis tools or flight dynamics systems, great, but your experience might be also outside of the space domain. Key is in having a background with building and operating complex systems;
• Clear communicator who can work across complex technical topics, some might be new to you, ranging from deep orbital dynamics to how to build the right scalable software system.

Nice to have

• Experience with space specific concepts such as formation-flying, constellation management, Low-thrust maneuvers or any similar.