Constellation Space
Founding Engineer
$120K–$200K
Seattle · On-site · Full-time · Posted Apr 24, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years building and running production software, or equivalent depth.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. person required (ITAR).
About the job
Build ConstellationOS, a platform for satellite and ground-network operations, and bring research models into production.
What you'll do
- Build backend services, telemetry and forecast data pipelines, and customer APIs.
- Own infrastructure and security across commercial cloud, GovCloud, and on-prem deployments; make and document architecture decisions.
- Productionize and evaluate research models, and build developer tools and simulation environments.
What they ask for
- 3+ years building and running production software, or equivalent depth.
- Strong Python plus at least one of Go, C++, or Rust; solid SQL, containers, and cloud infrastructure (Docker, Terraform).
- Experience owning a system from design through production.
- U.S. person required (ITAR).
Nice to have
- Prior machine learning engineering experience.
- Experience on an early-stage team.
Pay
$120K – $200K USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go, C++, Rust, SQL, Docker, Terraform
AI focus
Take research models into production, including serving, monitoring, and evaluation against physics baselines.
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