Iceye
Engineering Lead, Orbit Determination
Espoo, Remote. Posted 7 months ago
The role
You will lead a multidisciplinary team of 4 to 10 people to deliver orbit determination software and services. This work provides satellite position data for mission-critical systems like image acquisition and collision avoidance.
What you will do
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team delivering orbit determination software and services
- Own delivery, prioritization, and roadmap alignment in collaboration with product and domain stakeholders
- Drive continuous improvement of orbit determination capabilities including accuracy, latency, and scalability
- Support team growth through mentoring, hiring, and effective workload distribution
Required qualifications
- Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams delivering complex software systems
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including deployment, observability, and release processes
- Experience with cloud and on-prem environments using technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Ability to communicate effectively across deep technical domains and scalable software systems
- Interest in understanding high-level fundamentals of orbital dynamics to understand constraints they impose on the software system
Nice to have
- Experience working on systems with strong theoretical components such as flight dynamics, state estimation, or data science
- Understanding of orbital dynamics
- Track record of hiring and developing engineers across different career stages
Benefits
- Continuous professional development
- Training opportunities
Before you apply
- Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)
- Talent Attraction Screening (remote)
- Hiring Manager Interview (remote)
- Take-home technical task and panel interview (remote)
- System thinking workshop (on-site)
About the company
ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. The company is headquartered in Finland and operates globally.