Loft Orbital
Onboard Software Engineer - Hyperdrive
San Francisco, CA$155k–$225kfull timemidAdded today
About this role
Join Loft Orbital as a founding engineer building the first AI applications marketplace for satellites. You'll work directly with leadership to scale the platform from MVP to support dozens of partner solutions, shipping features weekly on a small, high-impact team.
What you'll do
- Design and develop the satellite AI applications marketplace platform from MVP toward production scale
- Own features end-to-end, from conception through deployment and monitoring
- Collaborate closely with the Director of Marketplace and partner stakeholders
- Implement systems to enable partners to publish, deploy, and monetize AI solutions
- Ship features and improvements on a weekly cadence
- Participate in architecture decisions for a growing platform
What they're looking for
- Full-stack web development
- Backend API design and implementation
- Database design and optimization
- Cloud infrastructure and deployment
- Software architecture and system design
- Version control and collaborative development
- Problem-solving and ownership mentality
- Communication and cross-functional collaboration
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Loft Orbital
Loft Orbital builds and operates satellites, developing spacecraft guidance systems, mission software, and payload integration solutions. The company is hiring spacecraft engineers, software engineers, and systems engineers to support satellite operations, attitude control development, and mission deployment.
View all jobs at Loft OrbitalLikely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you owned a feature end-to-end—how did you approach the full lifecycle from design to deployment?
- What's your experience building marketplace platforms, and what technical challenges did you encounter?