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Space is in our DNA. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. Orbital Sidekick is establishing a space-based infrastructure of HSI sensors and analytic capabilities to enable real-time monitoring, detection, and risk management.  <br>  We are seeking a VP of Sales to lead our B2B efforts, drive revenue growth, expand our customer base, forge strategic partnerships, and oversee the sales organization. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of B2B sales experience in one or more of the following areas: data &amp; analytics, energy, mining, defense, or satellite-based services, with a proven track record of developing and executing successful sales strategies.   <br> In this role, you’ll collaborate with OSK leadership to grow the sales pipeline, manage existing programs, and support key customer initiatives. You’ll also work with product, software engineering, analytics, and payload teams to align efforts on customer programs.<h3>What you will do:</h3> <ul> <li>Drive revenue growth through new customer acquisition and upselling within the existing customer base, including leading negotiations and closing contracts. Current customer base includes 4 Fortune 500 Companies and 3 Oil &amp; Gas Primes. This is both a hands-on and leadership role in year 1.</li> <li>Establish the relevant growth metrics, manage tasks, activities, and delivery milestones for existing programs, tracking scope, cost, and timelines. This customer-facing role involves exposure to decision-makers across various industries.</li> <li>Identify market expansion opportunities and develop/maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders and enterprise customers, positioning OSK as a leader in hyperspectral and geospatial intelligence.</li> <li>Following the first year of sales success, review and modify growth metrics and implement a strategic sales plan to scale operations and grow the sales organization. </li> <li>Align and collaborate cross-functionally with product, operations, technical, and management teams to ensure high-quality customer delivery.</li> <li>Provide regular updates to OSK leadership on the sales pipeline and deliver accurate forecasts and reports on key performance metrics.</li> </ul><h3>Required skills and experience:</h3> <ul> <li>10+ years of B2B sales experience.</li> <li>Proven track record of exceeding sales targets and scaling revenue for a high-growth business environment.</li> <li>Experience in enterprise sales, ideally within energy and defense. </li> <li>Experience with complex contract negotiations and managing complex sales cycles.</li> <li>Ability to build and maintain relationships with decision-makers at organizations of various sizes.</li> <li>Strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.</li> <li>Attention to detail and excellent time management.</li> <li>Self-motivated, proactive team player with a bias for action in dynamic environments.</li> <li>Process-oriented, capable of balancing priorities while supporting customers, teams, and OSK.</li> <li>Ability to identify and manage scope creep effectively.</li> <li>Collaborate well with distributed and cross-functional teams.</li> </ul><h3>Standout candidates will have:</h3> <ul> <li>Proven experience building out and managing a sales team as well as ability to execute as an individual contributor in year one.</li> <li>Strong understanding of hyperspectral technology, geospatial intelligence, or space-based data services.</li> <li>Experience in the energy industries (oil &amp; gas, mining), geospatial sectors, and/or with startups.</li> </ul><h3>Benefits of working at OSK:</h3> <ul> <li>Competitive compensation and equity packages.</li> <li>Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance, with 100% of premiums covered for employees and 50% for dependents.</li> <li>401K plan.</li> <li>Commuter benefits.</li> </ul>ITAR Requirements: U.S. Government space technologies export/ITAR regulations apply here, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. <br> Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Orbital Sidekick

VP of Sales

Space is in our DNA. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. Orbital Sidekick is establishing a space-based infrastructure of HSI sensors and analytic capabilities to enable real-time monitoring, detection, and risk management.  <br> As a Senior Ground Software Operations Engineer reporting to our VP of Payload Engineering and working closely with our Analytics and Software teams, you will help build out the tools, processes and products critical to our customer’s success.<h3>What you’ll do:</h3> <ul> <li>Design software architecture that supports efficient upload and download of tasking and imagery data</li> <li>Efficiently model tasking scenarios for a constellation of hyperspectral satellites</li> <li>Perform trade studies on orbit positioning and maneuvers to maximize satellite coverage</li> <li>Interface with the operations and software team to successfully execute targeted tasking with multiple space-based sensors</li> <li>Write and maintain a modeling and simulation codebase that is used by multiple teams</li> <li>Work with the OSK product team to deliver a high fidelity constellation tasking tool from simulation to execution</li> <li>Develop and tune a scheduling algorithm for a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites</li> </ul><h3>What you’ll need to succeed:</h3> <ul> <li>BS in Computer Science or Aerospace/Mechanical/Astronautical Engineering</li> <li>5+ years of experience in the Aerospace/Space/Software industry</li> <li>Experience in verification of tasking plans and spacecraft health and status</li> <li>Strong proficiency in Python and/or C++</li> <li>Firm understanding of Linux/Unix Operating System commands for scripting and commanding</li> <li>Experience using software APIs to receive and send telemetry data</li> <li>Excellent foundations of software architecture, interface design, distributed systems, and testing patterns</li> <li>Strong communication skills with other disciplines and engineers </li> </ul><h3>Bonus points if you have:</h3> <ul> <li>MS in Computer Science/Aerospace/Astronautical Engineering</li> <li>Practitioner-level experience with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc)</li> <li>Health and Status monitoring of satellite software systems experience</li> <li>Knowledge of orbital mechanics and pointing/control algorithms for spacecraft</li> <li>Spacecraft operations experience, downloading and uploading spacecraft control parameters</li> </ul><h3>What we offer:</h3> <ul> <li>Competitive compensation and equity packages</li> <li>Comprehensive health plan including health/dental/vision/wellness</li> <li>Disability and Life insurance</li> <li>401K program</li> <li>Flexible time off</li> <li>Commuter benefits</li> <li>Learning and development opportunities</li> <li>Monthly stipend for internet/cell phone/office expenses</li> <li>Flexible in-office schedule with lunch Tuesday to Thursday in the San Francisco headquarters</li> <li>Off-sites and team-building activities</li> <li>Remote friendly (we hire in-office and remote employees in the United States)</li> </ul>ITAR Requirements: U.S. Government space technologies export/ITAR regulations apply here, applicant must be a <a href="http://U.S.citizen" target="_blank">U.S.citizen</a> or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. <br> Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Senior Ground Software Operations Engineer

Space is in our DNA. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. Orbital Sidekick is establishing a space-based infrastructure of HSI sensors and analytic capabilities to enable real-time monitoring, detection, and risk management.  <br> We’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineer who will build out and design machine learning infrastructure for a team of data &amp; remote sensing scientists, working collaboratively with the Analytics and Software teams to deliver data-driven products and solutions. If you are a smart-creative individual seeking to innovate and produce real, tangible value; take ownership of your role and position within a cutting edge tech company; and inform the future vision of an up-and-coming San Francisco start-up, you’ll fit right in.  <br> You will contribute to a cross-functional team that is responsible for the full algorithm development process, all the way from human annotation to integration with the platform. Your role as Machine Learning Engineer means that you will be responsible for owning infrastructure for experiment tracking, model training/inference, dataset version control, and imagery annotation campaign creation and data extraction. You will work collaboratively within the company to produce high-level engineering of both the data collection and information delivery platforms.<h3>As a Machine Learning Engineer your responsibilities will include:</h3> <ul> <li>Setting up Machine Learning infrastructure including, model repositories, experiment tracking, workflow orchestration (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster) </li> <li>Optimizing resources for both development and production in the cloudDeploying models for both batch and online inference</li> <li>Establish model monitoring, model registries, experiment tracking, CI/CD, and continuous training </li> <li>Role will initially be focused on setting up MLOps and then grow into researching, developing, debugging, and deploying models to production using our hyperspectral data</li> </ul><h3>Basic qualifications:</h3> <ul> <li>3+ years postgraduate experience as a MLEBS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or similar.</li> <li>Python, Pytorch, Weights and Biases, ML Flow, DVC, Ray, Dask, data science stack</li> <li>Experience with deploying and monitoring models in clouds environments (AWS)</li> <li>Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a startup environment</li> <li>Comfortable with rapid decision-making and taking ownership of system design</li> <li>Excellent written and oral communication skills</li> </ul><h3>Standout candidates will have:</h3> <ul> <li>Experience in machine learning for remote sensing data,, hyperspectral data and Geospatial data</li> <li>Familiarity with common remote sensing data types and tools, GeoTiffs, GDAL rasterio, xarray, ENVI</li> </ul><h3>Benefits of working at OSK:</h3> <ul> <li>We offer competitive compensation and equity packages</li> <li>Company-sponsored 401K, as well as medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% premiums covered by OSK for employees and 50% for dependents</li> </ul> ITAR Requirements: U.S. Government space technologies export/ITAR regulations apply here, applicant must be a <a href="http://U.S.citizen" target="_blank">U.S.citizen</a> or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.  <br> Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Machine Learning Engineer

The Orbital Sidekick (OSK) software engineering team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help us build SIGMA, our system for processing satellite imagery and delivering results to customers. In this role you will design and code services that process &amp; catalog imagery, detect anomalies, store metrics, create reports, and deliver insights to customers. The software engineering team needs a generalist back end software engineer who is able to dive deep throughout our system, understands cloud architecture and is comfortable justifying technical decisions to the broader team.   <br> Space is in our DNA. OSK has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. OSK owns and operates a constellation of satellites with hyperspectral sensors. With those sensors, OSK can "see" methane plumes, liquid hydrocarbon leaks, vegetation health, and a lot more.<h3>What You'll Do</h3> <ul> <li>Build APIs and services for creating and delivering insights</li> <li>Implement image &amp; auxiliary data catalog services</li> <li>Collaborate with the product team to determine feature priorities</li> <li>Collaborate with the satellite payload and analytics teams to implement new or improved image processing operations</li> <li>Break down &amp; plan features &amp; services for incremental delivery</li> </ul><h3>What You'll Need to Succeed</h3> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience writing production code for cloud services</li> <li>Extensive knowledge of cloud computing, particularly AWS serverless technologies</li> <li>Experience with API technologies (e.g., REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, GraphQL)</li> <li>Experience with orchestration technologies (e.g., AWS Step Functions)</li> <li>Experience with software architecture decision-making on a team</li> <li>Strong written and verbal communication skills </li> <li>Effective collaboration skills to work with a remote team</li> <li>Experience with Python programming or an aptitude for adopting programming languages </li> </ul><h3>Experience That Will Give You an Advantage</h3> <ul> <li>Knowledge of imaging principles</li> <li>Knowledge of remote sensing analytics, earth sciences and/or geography</li> <li>Knowledge of satellite mission operations</li> <li>Experience with machine learning</li> <li>Experience with AWS CDK or CloudFormation</li> <li>Experience implementing authentication and authorization systems</li> </ul>Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Senior Software Engineer (Cloud)

Orbital Sidekick (OSK) is seeking a Senior Geospatial Software Engineer to join the software engineering team building SIGMA, our system for processing imagery and delivering results to customers. In this role you will design and code production data pipelines to calibrate, rectify, analyze and otherwise process hyperspectral imagery (HSI) from our GHOSt satellite constellation. Additionally, you will work closely with our payload &amp; analytics teams to bring research algorithms to the SIGMA platform. This is an implementation rather than a research or data science role. <br> Space is in our DNA. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. Orbital Sidekick is establishing a space-based infrastructure of HSI sensors and analytic capabilities to enable real-time monitoring, detection, and risk management.<h3>What You'll Do</h3> <ul> <li>Implement image processing algorithms for an automated production environment</li> <li>Build tools to manage &amp; monitor the processing system and imagery catalog</li> <li>Build APIs to make imagery &amp; insights available to customers (both internal and external)</li> <li>Collaborate with the product team to determine feature priorities</li> <li>Collaborate with the satellite payload and analytics teams to implement new or improved image processing operations</li> <li>Break down &amp; plan features &amp; services for incremental delivery</li> </ul><h3>What You’ll Need To Succeed</h3> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience writing geospatial code in Python</li> <li>Extensive knowledge of GDAL, Rasterio, xarray, and other code libraries for handling raster data</li> <li>Extensive knowledge of cloud computing deployments (e.g., AWS) and Linux environments</li> <li>Experience with orchestration technologies (e.g., AWS Step Functions)</li> <li>Experience with serverless compute (e.g., AWS Fargate and Lambda)</li> <li>Experience writing code for a production environment</li> <li>Strong written and verbal communication skills </li> <li>Effective collaboration skills to work with a remote team</li> </ul><h3>Experience That Will Give You an Advantage</h3> <ul> <li>Knowledge of imaging principles</li> <li>Knowledge of remote sensing analytics, earth sciences and/or geography</li> <li>Experience with machine learning</li> <li>Experience with OGC APIs, STAC, or similar open source geospatial technologies</li> <li>Experience with US government imagery requirements (e.g., NITF image format)</li> <li>Experience with AWS CDK or CloudFormation</li> </ul>Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Senior Geospatial Software Engineer

Space is in our DNA. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. Orbital Sidekick is establishing a space-based infrastructure of HSI sensors and analytic capabilities to enable real-time monitoring, detection, and risk management.  <br> We’re looking for a Remote Sensing AI Researcher who will build out and design machine learning infrastructure for ateam of data &amp; remote sensing scientists, working collaboratively with the Analytics, and Software teams to deliver data-driven products and solutions. If you are a smart-creative individual seeking to innovate and produce real, tangible value; take ownership of your role and position within a cutting edge tech company; and inform the future vision of an up-and-coming San Francisco start-up, you’ll fit right in. <br> You will contribute to a cross-functional team that is responsible for the full algorithm development process, all the way from human annotation to integration with the platform. Your role as Remote Sensing AI Researcher means that you will be responsible for developing new research that can lead to new products and publications. You will work collaboratively within the company to produce high-level engineering of both the data collection and information delivery platforms.<h3>As a Remote Sensing AI Researcher your responsibilities will include:</h3> <ul> <li>Conducting novel research applying AI/ML to OSK’s satellite hyperspectral imagery.</li> <li>Helping transition research to production, deploying models for both batch and online inference as well as embedded on the satellites.</li> <li>Produce analytical infrastructure for AI/ML pipeline development.</li> <li>Inform colleagues and mentor Individual Contributors about AI/ML opportunities, and tasks.</li> <li>Publish your research in geospatial and/or AI conferences, write blog posts to show off your work.</li> </ul><h3>Basic qualifications:</h3> <ul> <li>3+ years experience in ML/AIMS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or similar.</li> <li>Python, Pytorch, ML Flow/ClearML, DVC, Ray, Dask, Python data science stack</li> <li>Comfortable training models in a cloud (AWS) environment as well as using best practices to track ML experiments.</li> <li>Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a startup environment</li> <li>Excellent written and oral communication skills. </li> <li>Familiarity with common remote sensing data types and tools, GeoTiffs, GDAL rasterio, xarray.</li> </ul><h3>Preferred Skills and Experience:</h3> <ul><li>Relevant publications applying AI/ML to remote sensing data at top conferences.</li></ul><h3>Benefits of Working at OSK:</h3> <ul> <li>We offer competitive compensation and equity packages.</li> <li>Company-sponsored 401K, as well as medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% premiums covered by OSK for employees and 50% for dependents.</li> </ul>ITAR Requirements: U.S. Government space technologies export/ITAR regulations apply here, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. <br> Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Remote Sensing AI Researcher

Space is in our DNA. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has a mission to leverage the untapped power of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to address global environmental, health, and safety needs while helping companies reach their sustainability goals. Orbital Sidekick is establishing a space-based infrastructure of HSI sensors and analytic capabilities to enable real-time monitoring, detection, and risk management.  <br> In this dynamic and highly technical role as an Imagery Support Engineer, you will be a crucial part of our mission to deliver cutting-edge hyperspectral imagery to government and commercial clients. You will provide exceptional technical customer support, ensuring seamless delivery and optimization of our products. By collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will contribute to driving customer satisfaction, identifying opportunities for process improvement, and supporting our company's growth.<h3>What You'll Be Doing:</h3> <ul> <li>Understand customer tasking needs and requirements, and develop tasking schemas based on current and future capabilities.</li> <li>Work with payload mission operations to optimize satellite tasking decks for OSK’s constellation.</li> <li>Collaborate with payload mission operations to ensure tasking orders are executed as scheduled.</li> <li>Develop and maintain metrics focused on tasking/collection efficiencies.</li> <li>Provide advanced technical support for hyperspectral imagery products and services, including troubleshooting complex issues and providing solutions.</li> <li>Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to improve product quality and efficiency.</li> <li>Maximize resource utilization and ensure all deliveries meet client SLAs.</li> <li>Develop and maintain technical documentation and training materials.</li> <li>Perform quality assurance checks on hyperspectral imagery data, ensuring adherence to stringent standards.</li> </ul><h3>Minimum Requirements:</h3> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS, Remote Sensing, or a related field</li> <li>Minimum of 2 years of experience in a technical analytics </li> <li>Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a startup environment</li> <li>Proficiency in GIS software (ArcGIS, QGIS) and remote sensing data analysis techniques</li> <li>Working knowledge of Python, GDAL, Jupyter and GitHub</li> <li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills</li> <li>Excellent verbal and written communication abilities</li> </ul><h3>Standout Candidates Will Have:</h3> <ul> <li>Master's degree in Geography, GIS, Remote Sensing, or a related field</li> <li>Advanced working knowledge of Python, GDAL, Jupyter and GitHub</li> <li>Experience with hyperspectral image processing and analysis</li> <li>Familiarity with the geospatial intelligence industry, especially the US government</li> <li>Sales or business development experience</li> </ul><h3>Benefits of Working at OSK:</h3> <ul> <li>We offer competitive compensation and equity packages</li> <li>Company-sponsored 401K, as well as medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% premiums covered by OSK for employees and 50% for dependents</li> </ul>ITAR Requirements: U.S. Government space technologies export/ITAR regulations apply here, applicant must be a U.S.citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. <br> Orbital Sidekick is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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