Engineering Manager - Space Situational Awareness (SSA)

High-Performance Astrodynamic Compute Engine: Direct the architecture of SkyServes core computational pipelinetranslating complex perturbation models (J2J4, atmospheric drag, solar radiation pressure, third-body gravity) and numeric propagators (SGP4/SDP4, Cowell, Encke, Runge-Kutta/Dormand-Prince) into high-performance, parallelized compute modules (C++, Rust, or optimized Python/CUDA).

Multi-Source Sensor Ingestion Cataloguing: Architect resilient, scalable streaming pipelines (Kafka, Apache Flink, gRPC) to ingest, correlate, and cross-tag heterogeneous tracking observations (TLE/OMM, CCSDS OEM/OPM, radar range/range-rate/raw data, optical angles-only right ascension/declination, RF ephemerides).

Conjunction Screening Maneuver Analytics: Oversee the screening engine evaluating thousands of operational satellites against 30,000+ cataloged debris objects; deliver sub-second probability of collision (P_c) computations (Foster, Akella-Alfriend, Hall algorithms) and automated avoidance maneuver recommendations.

Geospatial 3D Celestial Visualization: Guide frontend and GIS engineers developing interactive WebGL/Cesium-based 4D/3D ephemeris visualizations, covariance ellipsoids, sensor coverage cones, custom analyses and real-time pass predictions.

Mission-Critical SLAs: Ensure 99.99% uptime for orbital safety alerts, automated emergency Conjunction Data Message (CDM) generation, and mission telemetry streaming.

Dual-Track Deployment (Commercial Cloud Air-Gapped Gov): Partner with Solutions Engineering to ensure the platform deploys natively to public clouds (AWS/GCP/E2E/Other Sovereign platforms) as well as air-gapped, on-premise environments required by defense and institutional customers.

Technical Standards Compliance: Enforce compliance with international space standards (CCSDS formats, Space Data Association protocols, ISO 24113 orbital debris mitigation guidelines).

Lead, mentor, and grow a 15+ member squad comprising distributed systems engineers, scientific software developers, and platform DevOps/SREs.

Drive cross-functional collaboration with the Astrodynamics, SSA Product Lead, and Sensor Partnership Directors to turn theoretical orbit estimation algorithms into production-grade microservices.

Champion rigorous engineering practices: automated unit/integration testing on orbital baseline scenarios, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) telemetry validation, CI/CD pipelines, and rigorous code reviews.