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Orbit Determination Software Engineer

Finland; Poland, Espoo · Job Posted January 26, 2026
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In this role you will ensure that orbit determination products are always available for our internal and external customers. You will be a part of a multidisciplinary team of software and flight dynamics engineers working on a critical part of our systems, which computes high accuracy estimates of where our satellites have been and where they are going to be. The role is critical in ensuring the Orbit Determination software service is always ready to provide high-accuracy estimates across a number of different deployment configurations, including Cloud and on-prem environments. You will tackle significant engineering challenges involving high-availability distributed systems, network communication and telemetry processing. You will work closely with satellite operations and mission planning teams to turn complex physical constraints into robust, automated software solutions.

Job Responsibility

  • Design, develop, maintain, and test orbit determination software responsible for tracking ICEYE’s fleet of satellites and modeling the evolution of their position and velocity over time
  • Develop and ship production-ready software services running on containerized in-prem and cloud environments
  • Own and debug operational issues related to the software
  • Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to balance high-fidelity state estimation with high-availability and low-latency data delivery

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a history of designing, developing, and delivering software systems running in containerized environments
  • Professional experience working with CI/CD, code reviews, and unit tests
  • Experience working with databases to store and retrieve data in a timely manner, ideally using TimescaleDB and/or InfluxDB
  • Practical experience implementing and maintaining REST APIs
  • Experience writing software in Python and Java
  • Basic familiarity of cloud and infrastructure technologies such as AWS, AWS SQS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform or similar
  • Interest in learning about the domains of astrodynamics and orbit determination
  • Able to communicate complex software concepts in plain English

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of state estimation principles such as Kalman filtering, measurement processing, state propagation, and statistical analysis
  • Experience working with Grafana and Datadog for logging and data analysis
  • Experience designing and operating high-availability services

What we offer

  • Finland: A job that matters in a dynamic Defence Technology and Earth Observation environment with a scale-up approach
  • An independent role with a supportive and diverse work environment
  • Occupational healthcare, occupational, and accident insurance
  • A yearly benefit budget to spend as you wish (i.e. on sport, transport, bike benefit, wellness, lunch, etc.)
  • Phone subscription with iPhone of choice
  • Relocation support (i.e. flight tickets, accommodation, relocation agency support)
  • Time for self-development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes
  • Inspiring and collaborating offices and silent workspaces enable you to focus
  • Poland: A job that matters in a dynamic Defence Technology and Earth Observation environment with a scale-up approach
  • An independent role with a supportive and diverse work environment
  • A yearly benefit budget to spend as you wish (MyBenefit i.e. on sport, transport, wellness, lunch, tourism, etc.)
  • Relocation support (i.e. flight tickets, accommodation, relocation agency support etc.)
  • Time for self-development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes
  • Polish language lessons
  • Occupational and private healthcare and life insurance
  • Inspiring and collaborating offices and silent workspaces enable you to focus

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