Space Mission Intelligence Analyst (London, UK) 🛰️🔭🕵🏽

About us: 

HEO Robotics is the world’s first commercial in-orbit satellite inspection company. Our technology helps governments and commercial operators to visually monitor their spacecraft and other space objects they care about. We do this by transforming Earth observation satellites into in-orbit inspection cameras with our proprietary software and generating insights through our computer vision techniques.  Our goal is to empower our customers to have satellite insights at their fingertips. 

HEO Robotics is backed by venture capital funds and high-profile angel investors from Australia, UK,  and USA including Y Combinator (S21). We are based in Sydney, Australia with offices in the UK and boots on the ground in the US.

We’re investing our resources to implement and scale our solutions, hire talent to build out a high performing interdisciplinary team and push the boundaries of space technology. We are growing fast  and looking for talented and determined people that value collaboration, growth and learning to join our team.

Our values: 

We value good space citizenship. We are passionate about responsible custodianship, sustainability  and trust. We believe that space should be easy and transparent. Our values help us to tackle some of the most complex issues in space for the benefit of all of humanity. HEO Robotics is committed to diversity, equality, and inclusion among our workforce.

About the role: 

Space Mission Intelligence Analysts are an important part of how we understand customer requirements, task missions to support their requirements and deliver high quality, actionable intelligence on objects in orbit.  We are looking for a passionate, highly-motivated Space Mission Intelligence Analyst to use our unique space-to-space imagery and data to discover new insights about a wide array of objects in space. You’ll be combining HEO’s analytics with open source data / OSINT to answer questions associated with a satellite’s operational status or to identify unknown objects. With years of experience in this domain, the HEO team will help you expand your knowledge and skills to flourish in this exciting role.

HEO is hiring a Space Analyst to work in London, UK. We encourage both recent graduates and candidates with previous similar industry experience to apply for this position.

Your key responsibilities: 

• Develop and enhance reports for key customers in government, defence, and commercial sectors about objects of interest in orbit.

• Work with HEO’s in-house analytics tools to generate consistent, and high quality insights.

• Combine high level image (Non-earth imaging) and data analysis with research from publicly available sources to determine key insights about  spacecraft and debris (OSINT).

• Schedule and support HEO Robotics missions to ensure customer deadlines are fulfilled through tasking our space-based sensors and  space domain awareness data.

• Design and run experiments in space.

• Support automation improvements for execution of missions

• Provide internal feedback on how our product should improve to  provide the best experience for customers  

About you, we'd love for you to have: 

• Bachelor’s degree, especially in relevant discipline.

• Understanding and keen interest in space, satellites and their subsystems and structures.

• Effective interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, including the ability to:

  • Communicate technical information in an engaging way to different audiences including non-technical and senior stakeholders.

  • Strong written skills (including scientific or intelligence report writing)

  • Build and maintain relationships with a diverse range of our internal and external customers and team members.

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and comfortable with experimenting to solve new challenges

• Able to plan and manage own workload to meet deadlines, with a focus on delivering value and a positive experience to your customers, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

• Enjoys the challenge of building an early stage start-up and willing to grow with HEO Robotics as it expands and delivers on its  mission to image space-based objects on demand.

• Experience in Python programming, using space situational awareness data, astrodynamics or 3D  modelling (e.g. Blender) is considered a plus.

Perks & benefits: 

HEO Robotics is one of Australia’s fastest-growing space technology companies. At HEO Robotics,  we’re committed to creating the best working environment where everyone thrives, values  collaboration, encourages innovation and shares the common goal of making space transparent. 

• Full-time role with flexible hours and a hybrid working model which values work-life balance – design your own best blend 

• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays

• Pension scheme with up to 5% matched contributions

• Central location in London, UK with coffee, snacks and regular socials

• Employee share options 

• Enhanced parental leave policy 

The successful candidate must submit to a background check (BPSS/DBS).

Please view our privacy policy as to how your data will be handled. https://www.heo-robotics.com/privacy-policy

Applicants must have a current, valid right to work in the UK. We are not able to sponsor visas.