Capella Space

Executive Assistant

• Provide high-level administrative support to an executive leader, including calendar management, travel arrangements, meeting coordination, and correspondence.
• Serve as a liaison between executives, internal teams, and external partners.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and briefing materials for meetings and events.
• Support the planning and execution of strategic projects and initiatives.
• Conduct research and gather information to inform executive decision-making.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve processes and drive efficiency.
• Handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
• Participate in and occasionally lead special projects with cross-functional teams.
• Serve as a culture carrier and thought partner, gradually taking on more strategic duties.

Site Reliability Engineer

• Serve as the organizational SME for DevSecOps, application security, cloud security, and automation.
• Champion a “safer, sooner, shifted-left” mindset by integrating security into Agile and DevOps workflows.
• Define, implement, and enforce secure SDLC standards—including code scanning, threat modeling, and automated compliance controls.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, and Product teams to ensure releases address both OWASP Top 10 risks and WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards.
• Lead cross-team education, coaching, and mentoring on DevSecOps, secure coding, and resilient deployment practices.
• Architect, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and related tooling.
• Build automated Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm, etc.) for multi-cloud and edge computing environments.
• Integrate and templatize security scanning tools (SAST, DAST, container scanning, dependency analysis) within delivery pipelines.
• Automate compliance with privacy, data governance, and ethical AI frameworks to ensure secure handling of sensitive information and accessibility alignment.
• Develop and maintain observability pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki to improve security visibility, performance monitoring, and reliability.
• Conduct and translate security and accessibility audits into actionable engineering improvements.
• Partner with Data Privacy, Compliance, and Governance teams to embed DevSecOps controls into enterprise frameworks.
• Promote an automation-first culture to reduce manual deployment steps, configuration drift, and technical debt.
• Support incident response and post-mortem processes to ensure continuous system hardening.

Staff DevSecOps Engineer

Engineer

• Lead detailed RF system modeling & EM simulation efforts
• Develop system level budgets, maintaining technical oversight of system performance throughout product lifecycle
• Direct RF system architecture trade studies
• High-level direction of design validation & qualification campaigns
• Act as subject matter expert in new program proposal development
• Manage the development of outsourced components and interface with external vendors
• Provide guidance and mentorship for junior engineers

Principal RF Payload Engineer

Customer Support

• Troubleshoot and resolve Tier 1 customer issues; escalate complex cases to Engineering/Product teams and track resolution.
• Document troubleshooting steps and contribute to knowledge base updates.
• Guide new customers through account setup and onboarding.
• Deliver polished customer service through email, virtual meetings, video recordings, and occasional phone calls.
• Build strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders, embodying company core values in every interaction.
• Share recurring issues and customer feedback with Product and Customer Success teams to improve the customer experience.
• Support Business Development, Product, Customer Success, and other internal teams across the customer journey.
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation (approx. once per month, including nights, weekends, and holidays).
• Learn and develop expertise in Capella products and systems, as well as third-party applications (Console, Bruno, Hubspot, CLI, AWS Snowflake, Jupyter Notebooks, GIS tools).
• Maintain exceptional attention to detail in all communications and deliverables.

Customer Support Specialist

Technical Program Manager

• Define the overall program plan for large-scale ground segment focused program, including scope, milestones, and delivery timelines.
• Align ground segment development activities with broader satellite mission operations and customer commitments.
• Drive execution across multiple projects within the program (e.g., mission planning, tasking interfaces, downlink infrastructure, data processing pipelines).
• Break down high-level requirements into projects/workstreams.
• Establish success criteria for operational readiness and customer delivery.
• Coordinate across engineering disciplines (Satellite Ops, Tasking, Platform applications, SAR processing).
• Own and maintain the integrated master schedule (IMS).
• Identify risks and lead mitigation strategies.
• Drive decision-making on trade-offs between scope, schedule, and resources.
• Guide software teams developing mission operations software, APIs, and updates to tasking console.
• Oversee infrastructure teams deploying antennas, networking, and cloud-based processing/distribution.
• Oversee the rollout of new ground capabilities into live operations.
• Ensure continuity of operations during cutover from legacy systems to new ground segment.
• Document lessons learned and established processes for long-term sustainment.

Senior Technical Program Manager

• Contribute to and influence algorithms and systems that turn raw Capella radar data into usable geospatial products
• Work on calibration, commissioning, and operations of radar instruments
• Implement low-level and highly optimized algorithms as well as CI/CD pipelining and infrastructure-as-code
• Participate in team collaboration within the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Processing Team
• Perform on-call duties responding to anomalies in the system
• Occasional travel required

Senior Signal Processing Engineer

• We are seeking a talented and experienced GNC Engineer to support the development of advanced capabilities for our next-generation spacecraft.
• In this role, you will contribute to efforts in orbit determination, orbit prediction, orbit control, collision avoidance, formation flying and system simulation and modeling.
• You thrive on solving complex technical challenges and take pride in building robust, high-performance systems that operate reliably on the ground and in space.
• As a GNC engineer you will contribute to existing efforts within depth review of system design and software.
• You will take ownership of challenging new projects as Capella evolves, paving new ground on what is possible with our satellite platform.
• You will work closely with immediate team members and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver against an ambitious technology roadmap.
• Build, deploy and maintain flight dynamics software for spacecraft operations and/or mission analysis
• Design and implement precise orbit determination routines for real-time and batch applications
• Provide feasibility analyses for and drive implementation of orbit control designs
• Develop production software using standard CI/CD workflows
• Refine and automate existing processes
• Assist in LEOPS during satellite launches
• Monitor our constellation for CDMs and ensure COLA procedures are followed
• Serve as a GNC expert to support other teams
• Take on leadership of complex technical challenges
• Manage existing and new relations with 3rd parties

Guidance, Navigation and Controls Engineer

About Capella Space: Capella Space is a pioneer in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite technology and space-based signal intelligence.
Role summary: Implement and manage secure infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, containers, monitoring, and incident response in support of SAR satellite operations.
Role Responsibilities:
• Implement automation pipelines for software development and deployment
• Manage and monitor infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance
• Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability
• Implement and manage containerization technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Configure and maintain database systems and related tools
• Implement and manage monitoring and logging solutions
• Work with security teams to implement and maintain security best practices
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align infrastructure with business needs
• Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in DevSecOps