Mathematical Software Engineer at Spire in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Company: Spire
- Location: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Posted: Sep 19, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 4+ years
Overview
Planning and scheduling tasks across our complex nanosatellite constellation and ground station network is critical to Spire’s business success. These tasks include radio communication between space and ground as well as orbital maneuvers to hold positional goals, including converging on and holding…
Job description
- Planning and scheduling tasks across our complex nanosatellite constellation and ground station network is critical to Spire’s business success. These tasks include radio communication between space and ground as well as orbital maneuvers to hold positional goals, including converging on and holding multi-satellite formations.
- We are seeking a skilled Mathematical Software Engineer to help enhance our ground-based systems responsible for that critical scheduling capability. As that engineer, you will contribute to the development of our intelligent automated systems for planning the operations over the upcoming hours and days. You will design, build and deploy new features of our scheduling systems to make them more capable and resilient.
Responsibilities
- Develop new scheduling capabilities such new types of orbital maneuver planning, or ground-system contact scheduling strategies.
- Iterate on features based on stakeholder feedback and evolving requirements from the business.
- Build and refine observability dashboards and alerts.
- Support live operations of constellation scheduling software.
- Improve the team's development environment and processes.
- Investigate and mitigate issues that arise in production systems.
Requirements
- Strong mathematics or modelling systems skills
- Proven ability to write robust software applications
- Comfort working in a dynamic environment while delivering on evolving requirements
- Solid understanding of software practices such as version control, testing, debugging and build systems.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics or similar discipline
- Programming in Rust (our primary language) or other compiled languages
- Combinatorial optimization and/or mixed integer programming
- Orbital mechanics and manoeuvre planning
- Experience in the space industry
- Cloud / containerization technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, microservices.
Skills
Preferred
- Orbital mechanics and manoeuvre planning
- Experience in the space industry
Benefits
- 🛰️ Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)
- 🚀 Launch Attendance
- 🌴 Generous Time Off Policy
- 🎓 Education Assistance Program
- 🥰 Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 📈 Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- 👣 Family Leave
- 💪 Fitness Reimbursement
- 🧡 Employee Referral Program
- 🍉 Healthy snacks & beverages in every office
About Spire
We improve life on Earth with data from space. Spire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. Its proprietary data and algorithms provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. In addition to its constellation, Spire’s data infrastructure includes a global ground station network and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth.