Space Mission Analyst 🛰️🔭🕵🏽

About us: 

HEO Robotics is the world’s first commercial in-orbit satellite inspection company. We have a working product and revenue. 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 feet 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, proactive team members 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 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, proactive Space Mission 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 to answer questions associated with a satellite’s operational status 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 Sydney, Australia. 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 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: 

• Understanding and keen interest in space, satellite subsystems and structures.

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

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

• Ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions  with minimal supervision.

• 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 

• Tech Central at 477 Pitt Street

• Employee share options 

• Flexible leave options so you can recharge and relax when best suits you – no forced leave during office shutdowns 

• A generous parental leave policy 

• End of trip facilities - bicycle parking and showers

We regret we can’t sponsor new visas. If you’re already in Australia on a work visa and would like to transfer sponsoring employers please note so in your application. We kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. HEO Robotics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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