Jobs at Umbra Space

Lead the architecture, development, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines and platform infrastructure supporting satellite operations, analytics, machine learning, and business decisions. Build data warehouses, lakehouse systems, data models, and dbt transformations; operate platforms using Databricks and related cloud services; and ensure data quality, reliability, security, governance, observability, lineage, and cost efficiency. Collaborate with product owners and multidisciplinary engineering teams on data requirements and platform capabilities.

Lead development and sustainment of spacecraft and payload production lines. Create and document manufacturing procedures, plan prototype builds, train production staff, translate designs into build plans, resolve manufacturing discrepancies, perform root cause analysis, and support product introductions and continuous process improvements for high-reliability space hardware.

Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable backend services and APIs that support satellite mission planning, scheduling, command/control, and communications. Own production services, improve resiliency, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver and operate autonomous satellite operations software with strong observability, testing, and CI/CD practices.

Lead design, analysis, build, and test of spacecraft mechanisms and pointing systems. Own architecture, component selection, motorization and pointing budgets, ICDs, qualification campaigns, and verification testing. Mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, troubleshoot hardware issues, and support launch/test activities to ensure flight-proven, manufacturable designs.

The Embedded Systems Engineer will develop firmware for satellite systems, focusing on embedded development, hardware integration, and system validation, working in a cross-functional environment.

Lead and manage a multi-disciplinary Space Systems engineering team responsible for spacecraft design, test, implementation and delivery. Oversee personnel management, scheduling, technical quality, hiring, career development, and cross-functional coordination. Apply traditional and Agile practices to drive program execution, process improvements, and stakeholder reporting for mission-ready satellite systems.

Design, build, operate, and scale mission-critical cloud infrastructure. Ensure reliability and SLAs, run on-call rotations, lead architecture and automation (IaC/GitOps), optimize Kubernetes, implement monitoring/alerting, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve processes and reliability.