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.
What You'll Do
- Implement image processing algorithms for an automated production environment
- Build tools to manage & monitor the processing system and imagery catalog
- Build APIs to make imagery & insights available to customers (both internal and external)
- Collaborate with the product team to determine feature priorities
- Collaborate with the satellite payload and analytics teams to implement new or improved image processing operations
- Break down & plan features & services for incremental delivery
What You’ll Need To Succeed
- 5+ years of experience writing geospatial code in Python
- Extensive knowledge of GDAL, Rasterio, xarray, and other code libraries for handling raster data
- Extensive knowledge of cloud computing deployments (e.g., AWS) and Linux environments
- Experience with orchestration technologies (e.g., AWS Step Functions)
- Experience with serverless compute (e.g., AWS Fargate and Lambda)
- Experience writing code for a production environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Effective collaboration skills to work with a remote team
Experience That Will Give You an Advantage
- Knowledge of imaging principles
- Knowledge of remote sensing analytics, earth sciences and/or geography
- Experience with machine learning
- Experience with OGC APIs, STAC, or similar open source geospatial technologies
- Experience with US government imagery requirements (e.g., NITF image format)
- Experience with AWS CDK or CloudFormation