Job Summary:
Orbion Space Technology Inc is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help build and maintain their internal application platform and enterprise applications for satellite thruster systems. The role involves architecting and developing software systems for data collection and investigation, executing software development best practices, and mentoring junior developers.
Responsibilities:
• Architect and develop software systems for data collection and investigation based on internal customer requirements
• Execute software development best practices, including CI/CD processes, testing, documentation, and architecture development
• Design and implement full-stack applications (data layer, application layer, web server, and frontend)
• Work closely with our IT team to design the deployment targets and application platform architecture
• Work with and support internal users to retrieve meaningful information that advances company needs
• Work with and support internal test development to populate data systems
• Mentor junior developers in software development projects
• Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Required:
• Must meet definition of United States Person
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or a directly related degree
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• 3+ years of Python development experience
• Experience building REST API servers with at least one Python framework (e.g. FastAPI, Flask, Django)
• Experience designing SQL databases
Preferred:
• HTML and CSS experience, and at least one template engine
• Experience working with at least one YAML-based CI/CD platform (e.g. Github Actions, Azure DevOps, Gitlab)
• Experience using Docker and Kubernetes in production environments
• Experience developing event-based microservices, e.g. with Apache Kafka
• Experience with Javascript or Typescript development, preferably with React
• Some experience building AI/ML systems – finetuning models and preparing datasets, agentic system development with existing frameworks, and/or RAG systems
• Experience with physical data and experimental methods
• Experience in a manufacturing environment
Company:
Early-stage fund in support Spartan Innovations supporting startups throughout Michigan. It is a sub-organization of Michigan State University Research Foundation. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in East Lansing, USA, with a team of 2-10 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.