As a Senior Systems Operations Engineer at Spire, you will be responsible for ensuring that on-orbit mission operations meet and sustain technical and service-level objectives. You will serve as the technical link between the development and operations phases of the mission lifecycle, ensuring that the constellation behaves as expected and that any deviations are rapidly understood, assessed, and resolved with sound engineering judgment.  

This role is central to Spire’s strategy to deliver scalable, reliable, and technically assured services using model-based engineering and validated asset profiles. Your work will ensure that decisions affecting constellation performance are made with technical insight.  

Role Responsibilities:  

• Own the technical quality of mission operations during the on-orbit service period, ensuring Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are well defined, monitored, and maintained. 
• Assess and design strategies to address underperformance, providing detailed technical insight and coordinating resolution strategies in collaboration with Systems Engineering, Mission Design, and SRE. 
• Define and manage the high-level structure and performance requirements of asset profiles, ensuring they accurately represent mission needs and provide a clear basis for verification. Work with System Owners and SMEs to ensure subsystem capabilities are properly characterised, and with SREs to ensure ongoing validation of in-orbit performance. 
• Bridge the gap between Systems Engineering, Mission Design, Program Management, Customer Service, and SRE by providing technical leadership during the mission service period. Define the tooling and functional monitoring needs that enable the SRE team to maintain constellation health and respond effectively to deviations. 
• Support SRE, Platform, and Customer Service leads in triaging constellation or satellite issues that deviate from nominal asset profile definitions, ensuring escalation paths and responses are technically justified. 
• Act as a technical reviewer and contributor during Mission Readiness Review (MRR) and pre-launch handover, ensuring operational teams are equipped with validated, well-understood assets and clearly defined expectations for mission performance. 
• Identify operational risks and propose mitigations related to in-orbit performance, platform limitations, or evolving CONOPS. 
• Ensure technical consistency and justification for on-orbit changes such as mode transitions, re-tasking, or adjustments to duty cycles or resource allocations. Lead the rollout of complex fleet-wide changes when CONOPS are being updated, ensuring risks and dependencies are managed. 
• Collaborate across SRE, Platform, and Systems teams to codify lessons learned into reusable operational standards, documentation, and improved design practices for future missions. 
• Derive and maintain Operational Requirements by helping project teams translate mission and system-level requirements into operational-level non-functional requirements (SLOs, latency, freshness, availability), with verification methods and traceability. 
• Support configuration control during service, helping manage the versioned operational baseline (limits, parameters, tasking configurations) and working with SREs, System Owners, and Customer Service to prevent configuration drift across the fleet. 
• Support the definition and coverage of FDIR (Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery) logic, ensuring coverage against top failure modes and reducing residual operational risk over time. 

Basic Qualifications:  

• BSc in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or other relevant technical discipline. 
• 3+ years of experience in system performance monitoring, root cause analysis, and anomaly resolution. 
• Solid understanding of space system behaviour on orbit, including thermal dynamics, power management, RF communications, and tasking impacts. 
• Ability to translate system-level engineering context into clear operational guidance and tooling requirements. 
• Familiarity with SLA-driven architectures, system observability, and mission assurance principles. 
• Clear communication skills to align stakeholders across engineering, operations, and customer delivery. 
• Familiarity with software tools and frameworks used in operations, including strong Python, SQL skills and GitHub-based workflows. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience supporting operations of multi-satellite constellations. 
• Knowledge of asset profiling approaches and system models (including fault profiles, mode transitions, and performance boundaries). 
• Understanding of ground-segment tooling, SRE practices, or telemetry/telecommand systems. 
• Experience working with cross-functional, multi-time zone teams across engineering and operations. 
• Background in satellite mission design, including the transition from development to operations. _LI-MK1

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. _LI-MK1

As a Senior Systems Operations Engineer at Spire, you will be responsible for ensuring that on-orbit mission operations meet and sustain technical and service-level objectives. You will serve as the technical link between the development and operations phases of the mission lifecycle, ensuring that the constellation behaves as expected and that any deviations are rapidly understood, assessed, and resolved with sound engineering judgment.  

This role is central to Spire’s strategy to deliver scalable, reliable, and technically assured services using model-based engineering and validated asset profiles. Your work will ensure that decisions affecting constellation performance are made with technical insight.  

Role Responsibilities:  

• Own the technical quality of mission operations during the on-orbit service period, ensuring Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are well defined, monitored, and maintained. 
• Assess and design strategies to address underperformance, providing detailed technical insight and coordinating resolution strategies in collaboration with Systems Engineering, Mission Design, and SRE. 
• Define and manage the high-level structure and performance requirements of asset profiles, ensuring they accurately represent mission needs and provide a clear basis for verification. Work with System Owners and SMEs to ensure subsystem capabilities are properly characterised, and with SREs to ensure ongoing validation of in-orbit performance. 
• Bridge the gap between Systems Engineering, Mission Design, Program Management, Customer Service, and SRE by providing technical leadership during the mission service period. Define the tooling and functional monitoring needs that enable the SRE team to maintain constellation health and respond effectively to deviations. 
• Support SRE, Platform, and Customer Service leads in triaging constellation or satellite issues that deviate from nominal asset profile definitions, ensuring escalation paths and responses are technically justified. 
• Act as a technical reviewer and contributor during Mission Readiness Review (MRR) and pre-launch handover, ensuring operational teams are equipped with validated, well-understood assets and clearly defined expectations for mission performance. 
• Identify operational risks and propose mitigations related to in-orbit performance, platform limitations, or evolving CONOPS. 
• Ensure technical consistency and justification for on-orbit changes such as mode transitions, re-tasking, or adjustments to duty cycles or resource allocations. Lead the rollout of complex fleet-wide changes when CONOPS are being updated, ensuring risks and dependencies are managed. 
• Collaborate across SRE, Platform, and Systems teams to codify lessons learned into reusable operational standards, documentation, and improved design practices for future missions. 
• Derive and maintain Operational Requirements by helping project teams translate mission and system-level requirements into operational-level non-functional requirements (SLOs, latency, freshness, availability), with verification methods and traceability. 
• Support configuration control during service, helping manage the versioned operational baseline (limits, parameters, tasking configurations) and working with SREs, System Owners, and Customer Service to prevent configuration drift across the fleet. 
• Support the definition and coverage of FDIR (Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery) logic, ensuring coverage against top failure modes and reducing residual operational risk over time. 

Basic Qualifications:  

• BSc in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or other relevant technical discipline. 
• 3+ years of experience in system performance monitoring, root cause analysis, and anomaly resolution. 
• Solid understanding of space system behaviour on orbit, including thermal dynamics, power management, RF communications, and tasking impacts. 
• Ability to translate system-level engineering context into clear operational guidance and tooling requirements. 
• Familiarity with SLA-driven architectures, system observability, and mission assurance principles. 
• Clear communication skills to align stakeholders across engineering, operations, and customer delivery. 
• Familiarity with software tools and frameworks used in operations, including strong Python, SQL skills and GitHub-based workflows. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience supporting operations of multi-satellite constellations. 
• Knowledge of asset profiling approaches and system models (including fault profiles, mode transitions, and performance boundaries). 
• Understanding of ground-segment tooling, SRE practices, or telemetry/telecommand systems. 
• Experience working with cross-functional, multi-time zone teams across engineering and operations. 
• Background in satellite mission design, including the transition from development to operations. _LI-MK1

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. _LI-MK1

Principal Consultant (Senior Manager) - Trade & Transaction Reporting 

Location: Glasgow / Edinburgh (Hybrid) | Practice Area: Finance, Risk, Regulatory & Financial Crime | Type: Permanent

Shape the future of global regulatory reporting transformation

The Role
Capco is seeking a Principal Consultant to support and deliver Trade & Transaction Reporting initiatives within the FRRF practice. This role is suited to someone with strong regulatory knowledge and hands-on experience contributing to complex, multi-jurisdictional reporting programmes. You’ll work with global financial institutions to deliver regulatory change, enhance reporting controls, and support sustained compliance across regimes such as EMIR, MiFIR, SFTR, and CFTC.

What You’ll Do

• Support end-to-end regulatory reporting transformation programmes across global regimes
• Contribute to implementation, remediation, and control optimisation aligned to EMIR Refit, MiFIR, SFTR, HKMA, MAS, and CFTC
• Analyse and improve data flows, reconciliations, and reporting architectures
• Provide input on platform implementation and regtech tools to enhance regulatory performance
• Assist in operating model improvements and efficiency initiatives across post-trade functions

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in transaction reporting delivery across one or more regulatory regimes
• Knowledge of products including OTC derivatives, equities, and fixed income
• Understanding of reporting controls, reconciliations, and data quality governance
• Broad capital markets knowledge across FO, MO, Risk, Treasury, and Compliance
• Experience contributing to regulatory change programmes in a consulting or client-facing environment

Bonus Points For

• Familiarity with platforms such as DTCC, UnaVista, Regnology, or SteelEye
• Understanding of data lineage, schema design, and reporting traceability
• Exposure to emerging technology such as regtech or real-time reporting tools
• Awareness of industry consultations or transaction reporting policy developments
• Experience supporting business development or mentoring junior team members

Why Join Capco

• Deliver high-impact technology solutions for Tier 1 financial institutions
• Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture
• Access continuous learning, training, and industry certifications
• Be part of a team shaping the future of digital financial services
• Help shape the future of digital transformation across FS & Energy

We offer a competitive, people-first benefits package designed to support every aspect of your life:

• Core Benefits: Discretionary bonus, competitive pension, health insurance, life insurance and critical illness cover.
• Mental Health: Easy access to CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in-house first aiders.
• Family-Friendly: Maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, plus paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement.
• Family Care: 8 complimentary backup care sessions for emergency childcare or elder care.
• Holiday Flexibility: 5 weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell holiday days based on your needs.
• Continuous Learning: Minimum 40 Hours of Training Annually: Take your pick—workshops, certifications, e-learning—your growth, your way. Also, Business Coach assigned from Day One: Get one-on-one guidance to fast-track your goals and accelerate your development.
• Healthcare Access: Convenient online GP services.
• Extra Perks: Gympass (Wellhub), travel insurance, Tastecard, season ticket loans, Cycle to Work, and dental insurance.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Talent Acquisition
At Capco, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support and enhance several parts of talent acquisition. This includes using AI-enabled features within LinkedIn to help source potential candidates, speeding up routine recruitment communications such as emails, creating compelling and brand-aligned job postings that accurately reflect role requirements, and AI-scheduling applications to improve the efficiency of interview coordination.

AI is used as a support tool only. All hiring decisions are made by talent acquisition and hiring teams.

Why This Role Is Open
We are currently hiring for this role due to an existing or newly created vacancy within our organization. This position is open as part of our ongoing business needs, and we are actively reviewing applications to fill this role with a qualified candidate who can make an immediate impact.

Inclusion at Capco
We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible and straightforward for everyone. If you need any adjustments at any stage, just let us know – we’ll be happy to help. We value each person’s unique perspective and contribution. At Capco, we believe that being yourself is your greatest strength. Our #BeYourselfAtWork culture encourages individuality and collaboration – a mindset that shapes how we work with clients and each other every day.

#LI-KA1

We are seeking a highly capable Thermal Test Engineer to join our satellite design and manufacturing team in the UK. This role is central to the verification and validation of spacecraft thermal performance across the full development lifecycle, from subsystem qualification through to full satellite environmental test campaigns. You will be responsible for planning, delivering, and analyzing a range of thermal test campaigns for spacecraft and payload hardware. Working closely with thermal analysts, systems engineers, AIT teams, and customers, you will ensure our satellites meet mission thermal requirements and perform reliably in the space environment. 

This position offers a unique opportunity to play a key role in delivering mission-critical thermal solutions; you'll solve complex analytical challenges, influence design decisions, and contribute to next-generation satellite platforms. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with hands-on environmental test experience who is passionate about spacecraft verification and enjoys solving complex thermal challenges. This role doesn’t necessarily require prior Space Engineering experience provided you have a strong background in Thermal Design & Testing from a relatable industry.  

Scope of the role: 

• Lead the planning, preparation, and execution of various types of thermal testing of Spacecraft Systems including:  
  • Thermal Vacuum Testing (TVAC) 
  • Thermal Balance and Characterization Tests 
  • Thermal Characterization of components, coatings, and interfaces 
• Work closely with thermal analysis teams to ensure robust test-to-model correlation of spacecraft thermal models. 
• Specify and configure thermal test hardware such as thermocouples, heaters, cold plates, data acquisition systems, and chamber instrumentation.
• Support root-cause analysis of unexpected thermal behavior or Non-Conformances during TVAC and Thermal Balance campaigns.
• Prototyping of new Thermal Management Systems.
• Contribute to the design of Satellite Thermal Management and other Mechanical systems onboard the Spacecraft.
• Contributing to On-Orbit verification of satellite Thermal Systems.
• Provide production support to the manufacturing team.
• Drive continuous improvement in thermal test methods, instrumentation standards, and campaign efficiency.
• Assisting other team members from multiple disciplines achieve their goals. 

Basic Qualifications / Experience:

• Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Physics, Systems Engineering or equivalent course or work experience 
• Proven experience planning and carrying out thermal testing in an industry such as Aerospace, Aviation, Automotive, or another relatable industry.
• Experience working with equipment such as Thermal test chambers, Vacuum instrumentation, N2 & LN2 systems, and thermal data acquisition systems (DAQ).
• Ability to interpret spacecraft thermal requirements and translate them into practical test methods.
• Excellent data analysis and reporting skills using tools such as Excel, Python, MATLAB, or LabVIEW.
• Excellent written and verbal communication 

 Preferred Qualifications / Experience:  

• Thermal environmental testing of Spacecraft
• Experience with thermal modelling of satellites (Using packages such as Siemens NX TMG, ESATAN, Thermal Desktop etc.)
• Experience with common spacecraft thermal control measures (e.g. MLI, Thermal paints, heatpipes, radiators, cryo-cooling)
• Familiarity with ECSS environmental test standards and spacecraft verification philosophy.
• Knowledge of spacecraft systems engineering and mission operations constraints.
• Design and drafting experience (preferably in Solidworks)
• Basic software skills (C, python, scripting)

What Success Looks Like: 

• Safe and efficient delivery of TVAC and thermal balance campaigns to schedule.
• High-quality test data enabling rapid thermal model correlation.
• Clear identification and resolution of thermal performance issues before launch.
• Strong collaboration between test, design, systems, and analysis teams.
• Continuous improvement in test quality, repeatability, and facility utilization. 

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. #LI-MI1#LI-MI

Spire is making a fundamental shift in how it operates its constellation. We are moving from a model where trained operators watch dashboards and escalate to experts, to one where the system is fully autonomous, self-healing, and data intelligent. This team is building that future, and this role sits at the center of it. 

The old model relies on operators, escalations, manual processes, and institutional knowledge locked in the heads of a few experts. It does not scale and it does not belong in a modern space company. We know what we want to replace it with: SRE principles applied to a constellation, autonomous fault handling, AI-driven anomaly detection, low toil, high data quality, and continuous improvement baked into the system. 

You will be one of the engineers who makes that real. 

What You Will Work On  

Autonomous Operations: 

• Design and build fault detection, isolation, and automated recovery pipelines for satellites and ground stations
• Drive elimination of manual processes. If a human is doing it repeatedly, automate it.
• Build space situational awareness systems so the fleet always knows its own state
• Develop operational automation for mission execution at scale

Telemetry and Data Platform: 

• Architect and build a flexible data platform that ingests, stores, and surfaces telemetry from space and ground assets
• Build analytics and visualization tools that surface operational insight and not just raw data
• Apply ML and AI techniques to detect anomalies, predict failures, and optimize constellation performance
• Work directly with data at every layer from pipeline design to query

Reliability Engineering: 

• Define and instrument SLOs and reliability metrics for space and ground assets
• Build monitoring and alerting systems that know what matters and ruthlessly suppress noise
• Own configuration control and software rollout processes for on-orbit and ground assets

Mission Software: 

• Build real-time dashboards and operator tooling that make mission status immediately legible
• Collaborate directly with satellite operators and mission teams to turn operational pain into software solutions
• Design systems for automated mission execution including planning, scheduling, and commanding at scale

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience
• Strong Python skills across backend services, data pipelines, and automation. Not just scripts.
• Real experience applying data analysis to solve complex operational or technical problems, comfortable working directly with data at every layer from pipeline design to query
• Solid Linux fundamentals including bash scripting and basic system administration
• Experience with containerized development and production environments
• The communication skills to work across engineering, operations, and mission teams and translate real-world requirements into working software

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data backends such as Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, or S3
• Hands-on experience with Databricks or modern data Lakehouse tooling
• Experience building or operating monitoring and alerting systems such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Nagios
• Infrastructure as Code experience with tools such as Terraform or Ansible
• ML or AI applications in an operational or monitoring context
• Experience with Python data visualization libraries

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three business days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. _#LI-MK1

As a Senior Systems Operations Engineer at Spire, you will be responsible for ensuring that on-orbit mission operations meet and sustain technical and service-level objectives. You will serve as the technical link between the development and operations phases of the mission lifecycle, ensuring that the constellation behaves as expected and that any deviations are rapidly understood, assessed, and resolved with sound engineering judgment.  

This role is central to Spire’s strategy to deliver scalable, reliable, and technically assured services using model-based engineering and validated asset profiles. Your work will ensure that decisions affecting constellation performance are made with technical insight.  

Role Responsibilities:  

• Own the technical quality of mission operations during the on-orbit service period, ensuring Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are well defined, monitored, and maintained. 
• Assess and design strategies to address underperformance, providing detailed technical insight and coordinating resolution strategies in collaboration with Systems Engineering, Mission Design, and SRE. 
• Define and manage the high-level structure and performance requirements of asset profiles, ensuring they accurately represent mission needs and provide a clear basis for verification. Work with System Owners and SMEs to ensure subsystem capabilities are properly characterised, and with SREs to ensure ongoing validation of in-orbit performance. 
• Bridge the gap between Systems Engineering, Mission Design, Program Management, Customer Service, and SRE by providing technical leadership during the mission service period. Define the tooling and functional monitoring needs that enable the SRE team to maintain constellation health and respond effectively to deviations. 
• Support SRE, Platform, and Customer Service leads in triaging constellation or satellite issues that deviate from nominal asset profile definitions, ensuring escalation paths and responses are technically justified. 
• Act as a technical reviewer and contributor during Mission Readiness Review (MRR) and pre-launch handover, ensuring operational teams are equipped with validated, well-understood assets and clearly defined expectations for mission performance. 
• Identify operational risks and propose mitigations related to in-orbit performance, platform limitations, or evolving CONOPS. 
• Ensure technical consistency and justification for on-orbit changes such as mode transitions, re-tasking, or adjustments to duty cycles or resource allocations. Lead the rollout of complex fleet-wide changes when CONOPS are being updated, ensuring risks and dependencies are managed. 
• Collaborate across SRE, Platform, and Systems teams to codify lessons learned into reusable operational standards, documentation, and improved design practices for future missions. 
• Derive and maintain Operational Requirements by helping project teams translate mission and system-level requirements into operational-level non-functional requirements (SLOs, latency, freshness, availability), with verification methods and traceability. 
• Support configuration control during service, helping manage the versioned operational baseline (limits, parameters, tasking configurations) and working with SREs, System Owners, and Customer Service to prevent configuration drift across the fleet. 
• Support the definition and coverage of FDIR (Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery) logic, ensuring coverage against top failure modes and reducing residual operational risk over time. 

Basic Qualifications:  

• BSc in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or other relevant technical discipline. 
• 3+ years of experience in system performance monitoring, root cause analysis, and anomaly resolution. 
• Solid understanding of space system behaviour on orbit, including thermal dynamics, power management, RF communications, and tasking impacts. 
• Ability to translate system-level engineering context into clear operational guidance and tooling requirements. 
• Familiarity with SLA-driven architectures, system observability, and mission assurance principles. 
• Clear communication skills to align stakeholders across engineering, operations, and customer delivery. 
• Familiarity with software tools and frameworks used in operations, including strong Python, SQL skills and GitHub-based workflows. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience supporting operations of multi-satellite constellations. 
• Knowledge of asset profiling approaches and system models (including fault profiles, mode transitions, and performance boundaries). 
• Understanding of ground-segment tooling, SRE practices, or telemetry/telecommand systems. 
• Experience working with cross-functional, multi-time zone teams across engineering and operations. 
• Background in satellite mission design, including the transition from development to operations. _LI-MK1

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. _LI-MK1

Spire is making a fundamental shift in how it operates its constellation. We are moving from a model where trained operators watch dashboards and escalate to experts, to one where the system is fully autonomous, self-healing, and data intelligent. This Director will lead that transformation. You will set the technical vision, define the architecture, build and inspire the team, and personally raise the standard for what modern space operations look like. 

The old model relies on operators, escalations, manual processes, and institutional knowledge locked in the heads of a few experts. It does not scale and it does not belong in a modern space company. We know what we want to replace it with: SRE principles applied to a constellation, autonomous fault handling, AI-driven anomaly detection, low toil, high data quality, and continuous improvement baked into the system. 

What This Role Is Not: 

This is not a role for someone who wants to graduate out of technical work. If your ideal week is back-to-back 1:1s, sprint ceremonies, and stakeholder syncs, this is not the right fit. We need a director who writes code, reviews architecture, challenges technical decisions, and earns the team's respect through demonstrated craft and not just tenure or title. 

What You Will Work On: 

Technical Leadership 

• Define and own the technical roadmap for autonomous constellation operations
• Set the architectural direction for the data platform, reliability systems, and automation infrastructure
• Stay hands-on: review code, prototype solutions, and get into the details when it matters
• Establish engineering standards across code quality, system design, testing, and observability, and hold the team to them
• Be the person engineers come to when the problem is genuinely hard

Team Building & Culture 

• Recruit, develop, and retain a team of 6 to 10 world-class reliability and platform engineers
• Set the pace, tone, and ambition for the team and make being on it feel like a privilege
• Create an environment where engineers grow fast, own their work, and ship things they are proud of
• Identify gaps and level up engineers through mentorship and not just management

Operational Transformation 

• Lead the shift from manual, operator-driven processes to fully automated and self-healing operations
• Define and drive toward SLOs, error budgets, and reliability targets for the constellation
• Partner with satellite operations and mission teams to translate pain into software solutions

Cross-Functional Influence 

• Be the technical voice of the team in company-wide conversations about architecture, infrastructure, and platform strategy
• Influence how Spire thinks about automation, data, and AI/ML across the broader engineering organization

Basic Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 in a technical leadership or staff-level individual contributor role
• Demonstrated track record building and shipping reliable production systems at scale. You have owned things that could not go down.
• Deep technical credibility. Engineers on your teams have respected your judgment and not just your title.
• Experience with SRE principles, reliability engineering, or large-scale automation. You have reduced toil systematically and not just complained about it.
• Strong foundation in Python, distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience hiring and developing engineers. You know what great looks like and how to find it.
• The communication and influence skills to drive technical decisions across teams you do not directly control

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience applying AI/ML or advanced analytics to operational or monitoring problems
• Experience writing performance software in Rust
• Background in space systems, aerospace, or highly constrained real-time environments
• Experience building data lakes, telemetry platforms, or observability infrastructure at scale
• A history of leading teams through technical transformations and not just maintaining the status quo

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. _#LI-MK1

Spire is making a fundamental shift in how it operates its constellation. We are moving from a model where trained operators watch dashboards and escalate to experts, to one where the system is fully autonomous, self-healing, and data intelligent. This Director will lead that transformation. You will set the technical vision, define the architecture, build and inspire the team, and personally raise the standard for what modern space operations look like. 

The old model relies on operators, escalations, manual processes, and institutional knowledge locked in the heads of a few experts. It does not scale and it does not belong in a modern space company. We know what we want to replace it with: SRE principles applied to a constellation, autonomous fault handling, AI-driven anomaly detection, low toil, high data quality, and continuous improvement baked into the system. 

What This Role Is Not: 

This is not a role for someone who wants to graduate out of technical work. If your ideal week is back-to-back 1:1s, sprint ceremonies, and stakeholder syncs, this is not the right fit. We need a director who writes code, reviews architecture, challenges technical decisions, and earns the team's respect through demonstrated craft and not just tenure or title. 

What You Will Work On: 

Technical Leadership 

• Define and own the technical roadmap for autonomous constellation operations
• Set the architectural direction for the data platform, reliability systems, and automation infrastructure
• Stay hands-on: review code, prototype solutions, and get into the details when it matters
• Establish engineering standards across code quality, system design, testing, and observability, and hold the team to them
• Be the person engineers come to when the problem is genuinely hard

Team Building & Culture 

• Recruit, develop, and retain a team of 6 to 10 world-class reliability and platform engineers
• Set the pace, tone, and ambition for the team and make being on it feel like a privilege
• Create an environment where engineers grow fast, own their work, and ship things they are proud of
• Identify gaps and level up engineers through mentorship and not just management

Operational Transformation 

• Lead the shift from manual, operator-driven processes to fully automated and self-healing operations
• Define and drive toward SLOs, error budgets, and reliability targets for the constellation
• Partner with satellite operations and mission teams to translate pain into software solutions

Cross-Functional Influence 

• Be the technical voice of the team in company-wide conversations about architecture, infrastructure, and platform strategy
• Influence how Spire thinks about automation, data, and AI/ML across the broader engineering organization

Basic Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 in a technical leadership or staff-level individual contributor role
• Demonstrated track record building and shipping reliable production systems at scale. You have owned things that could not go down.
• Deep technical credibility. Engineers on your teams have respected your judgment and not just your title.
• Experience with SRE principles, reliability engineering, or large-scale automation. You have reduced toil systematically and not just complained about it.
• Strong foundation in Python, distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience hiring and developing engineers. You know what great looks like and how to find it.
• The communication and influence skills to drive technical decisions across teams you do not directly control

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience applying AI/ML or advanced analytics to operational or monitoring problems
• Experience writing performance software in Rust
• Background in space systems, aerospace, or highly constrained real-time environments
• Experience building data lakes, telemetry platforms, or observability infrastructure at scale
• A history of leading teams through technical transformations and not just maintaining the status quo

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. _#LI-MK1

We are looking for a Spacecraft Software Engineer (GNSS) to join our team working at the intersection of satellite payloads, scientific computing, and data delivery systems. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing and maintaining both the flight and ground software that powers our satellite-based GNSS missions. You’ll work across system layers—from embedded software to cloud data pipelines—to help ensure the accurate and timely delivery of mission-critical scientific data to our customers.   

This is a high-impact role where autonomy, creativity, and technical breadth are key.   

What You'll Do as a Senior Software Engineer:

• Develop and maintain scientific and command & control software for GNSS-based satellite payloads using a variety of software stacks.   

• Build and operate ground-based automation systems for efficient data extraction, transformation, and delivery from the satellite to end users.   

• Collaborate closely with flight operations to troubleshoot and ensure consistent, high-quality data delivery.   

• Engage with other system engineers, payload developers, and mission operators to continuously evolve the software in support of scientific objectives.   
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and documentation to uphold software reliability and traceability.   

Who You Are (Required Qualifications):

We're looking for someone with at least 5 of the following qualifications:   

• Proficient in at least one of C++ or Python, and capable of picking up new tools and languages as needed.   

• Experience in FPGA development (VHDL or HLS) for signal processing or control systems.   

• Solid background in DSP techniques and theory, especially in the context of RF or GNSS.   

• Familiarity with GNSS signal processing and/or scientific applications such as GNSS-RO, GNSS-R, or PNT algorithms.   

• Skilled in cloud-based systems (e.g., AWS), backend development, and managing data via scalable storage/database solutions.   

• A lifelong learner—curious, adaptable, and open to new challenges outside your immediate expertise.   

• Demonstrates strong work ethics and a focus on impactful contributions to the mission and team.   

• Capable of independently navigating technical challenges and making forward progress without constant direction.   

Preferred Skills:

• Prior experience working on satellite payloads or in the aerospace domain.   

• Experience building telemetry and data visualization tools.   

• Contribution to open-source scientific or aerospace-related software projects. 

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. #LI-RK1

We are looking for a Spacecraft Software Engineer (GNSS) to join our team working at the intersection of satellite payloads, scientific computing, and data delivery systems. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing and maintaining both the flight and ground software that powers our satellite-based GNSS missions. You’ll work across system layers—from embedded software to cloud data pipelines—to help ensure the accurate and timely delivery of mission-critical scientific data to our customers.   

This is a high-impact role where autonomy, creativity, and technical breadth are key.   

What You'll Do as a Senior Software Engineer:

• Develop and maintain scientific and command & control software for GNSS-based satellite payloads using a variety of software stacks.   

• Build and operate ground-based automation systems for efficient data extraction, transformation, and delivery from the satellite to end users.   

• Collaborate closely with flight operations to troubleshoot and ensure consistent, high-quality data delivery.   

• Engage with other system engineers, payload developers, and mission operators to continuously evolve the software in support of scientific objectives.   
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and documentation to uphold software reliability and traceability.   

Who You Are (Required Qualifications):

We're looking for someone with at least 5 of the following qualifications:   

• Proficient in at least one of C++ or Python, and capable of picking up new tools and languages as needed.   

• Experience in FPGA development (VHDL or HLS) for signal processing or control systems.   

• Solid background in DSP techniques and theory, especially in the context of RF or GNSS.   

• Familiarity with GNSS signal processing and/or scientific applications such as GNSS-RO, GNSS-R, or PNT algorithms.   

• Skilled in cloud-based systems (e.g., AWS), backend development, and managing data via scalable storage/database solutions.   

• A lifelong learner—curious, adaptable, and open to new challenges outside your immediate expertise.   

• Demonstrates strong work ethics and a focus on impactful contributions to the mission and team.   

• Capable of independently navigating technical challenges and making forward progress without constant direction.   

Preferred Skills:

• Prior experience working on satellite payloads or in the aerospace domain.   

• Experience building telemetry and data visualization tools.   

• Contribution to open-source scientific or aerospace-related software projects. 

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. #LI-RK1

We are seeking a highly skilled Quality Engineer with a background in electronics to join our growing Quality team. The role will focus on quality assurance of Spire’s electronic systems, ensuring the reliability and compliance, both within spacecraft hardware and ground-based supporting equipment. Alongside your specialism, you will also contribute across the broader quality domains including manufacturing, supplier quality, engineering, and process improvement. 

The Quality Engineer will collaborate closely with managers and team leads, to implement effective quality measures within their respective teams. 

To excel as a Quality Engineer at Spire, the ideal candidate will possess exceptional problem-solving abilities, ensuring that all processes and products consistently meet or exceed established quality standards. 

What You’ll Do as Quality Engineer:  

Electronics Quality (Primary Focus): 

• Develop and implement quality strategies for electronic assemblies & parts, covering internal developments, COTS components, PCBs, and embedded systems across the full product lifecycle.
• Co-ordinate and support engineering design, test, and manufacturing teams in conducting failure analyses, root-cause investigations, and corrective/preventive actions (e.g. RCA, 8D, 5-Why).
• Monitor, evaluate, and report on in-process quality performance.
• Provide quality oversight of electronic manufacturing processes, including soldering, PCB assembly, reflow, conformal coating, and component selection.
• Collaborate with design engineering to drive DFM, DFT, and reliability improvements. 

 Broader Quality Responsibilities: 

• Maintain and improve the organisation’s Quality Management System (ISO 9001, working towards AS9100).
• Support quality planning, audits, document control, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Chair cross-functional problem-solving activities across functional domains.
• Participate in supplier evaluations, audits, and ongoing performance management.
• Support production quality activities including first article inspections, process capability, and product acceptance (including environmental and reliability testing).
• Contribute to risk management and compliance across internal and external stakeholders. 

 Key Skills: 

• Degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Solid understanding of IPC standards (e.g. IPC-A-610, J-STD-001) and electronics manufacturing best practices.
• Strong experience in electronics manufacturing, quality engineering, or hardware reliability.
• Demonstrated use of quality management methodologies such as Six Sigma, Lean, or 8D problem solving.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, schematics, BOMs, and test documentation.
• Experience working in a fast-paced engineering or high-reliability environment (space, aerospace, defence, or similar).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across disciplines. 

 Preferred Skills: 

• Familiarity with high-reliability engineering or quality assurance standards used in regulated technical industries.
• Familiarity with incoming inspection processes for electronic components.
• Understanding of reliability testing methods (e.g. thermal cycling, vibration, HALT/HASS).
• Experience working with configuration management or document control systems.
• IPC-A-610 Certification.

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. #LI-MI