Engineer

Senior Engineer, Constellation Systems 

About Us:

BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.

BlackSky is seeking a Constellation Systems Engineer to support our distributed remote Constellation Modeling and Analysis (CMA) team.  As a member of the interdisciplinary CMA team, the successful candidate will contribute to and apply internally developed modeling and simulation tools and techniques to a wide range of satellite constellation design and mission planning problems to report the performance of our constellation under various scenarios. You will have engagement with customer programs, business development and internal initiatives.

Responsibilities: 

• Develop, update, and expand processes, methods, and in-house tooling for constellation orbit design for topics including launch planning, revisit specifications, and other topics.
• Support constellation design trades and decision milestones.
• Provide subject matter expertise in Orbital Mechanics. 
• Develop analysis scenarios, configurations, and operations impacts to meeting specific requirements within BlackSky’s overall efforts.
• Use and improve constellation modeling and automation tools to report performance metrics for internal trade studies, program, and proposal efforts.
• Support documentation and presentation of analysis results highlighting key aspects.
• Support internal analysis product development, constellation performance demonstrations, and training.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering related disciplines (e.g. aerospace, mechanical, software), physics, or related
• Minimum 5 years of experience of relevant technical experience.
• Familiarity with spacecraft systems, concepts of operations, satellite constellations, or modeling and simulations