Iridium’s mission is to create and enable innovative connectivity solutions for individuals, organizations, and governments all over the world.
Iridium is committed to being a fulfilling and rewarding place to work where people are proud of what they do and are inspired to be the best they can be. We are committed to helping our employees and their families lead healthy, productive lives.
Some of our benefit offerings include:
● Competitive, market-driven salaries
● Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
● Health Savings Account (HSA) / Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
● Annual Bonus Plan and Annual Merit Increase Opportunities
● Employee Equity Awards
● Retirement 401(k) Plans and Employer Matching
● Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
● Education Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
● Career Development & Training Assistance
● Charitable Grants and Donation Matching Program
● Vacation, Sick Days, Floating Holidays, and Volunteer Time Off
● Paid Holidays
● Paid Parental Leave
● Headspace Membership
Join an elite team of exceptional people, doing remarkable things.
What We’re Looking For:
If you are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Senior Operations Support Engineer position supprting a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Senior Operations Support Engineer, you’ll be responsible for providing critical technical support to the team performing 24x7 Operations in Grand Forks, North Dakota. RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED!!! Inquire about details. You will primarily work regular business hours in a 24-hour, multi-satellite operations environment while occasionally working night shifts or weekends. Working in this role, you’ll gain valuable experience performing anomaly and issue resolution, troubleshooting, and identifying root cause and determining corrective actions. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to be part of a team on the forefront of one of the most advanced satellite constellations in the world and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and space systems.
This position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
What You’ll Do:
- Track, trend, and analyze potential problems and anomalous conditions that may affect operations of the ground system
- Provide on-call support, real-time investigation, and troubleshooting for operations anomalies related to the subsystems of Ground Resource Management, Fleet Management, Mission Planning, and Flight Dynamics
- Investigate and resolve issues where situations require an in-depth evaluation of factors that have been discovered or referred by on-shift operations teams
- Support cross-functional efforts and special operations projects with multi-functional teams
- Facilitate on-shift operations team training for recurring scenarios, ops affecting upgrades, and the Operational Crew Training and Certification process
- Identify and autonomously implement ideas, solutions, processes, procedures, and checklists focused on continuous process improvement, more efficient operations, and reduced system outages
What We’re Looking For:
If you are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Senior Operations Support Engineer position supporting a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Senior Operations Support Engineer, you’ll be responsible for providing critical technical support to the team performing 24x7 Operations in Grand Forks, North Dakota. RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED!!! Inquire about details. You will primarily work regular business hours in a 24-hour, multi-satellite operations environment while occasionally working night shifts or weekends. Working in this role, you’ll gain valuable experience performing anomaly and issue resolution, troubleshooting, and identifying root cause and determining corrective actions. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to be part of a team on the forefront of one of the most advanced satellite constellations in the world and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and space systems.
This position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
What You’ll Do:
- Track, trend, and analyze potential problems and anomalous conditions that may affect operations of the ground system
- Provide on-call support, real-time investigation, and troubleshooting for operations anomalies related to the subsystems of Ground Resource Management, Fleet Management, Mission Planning, and Flight Dynamics
- Investigate and resolve issues where situations require an in-depth evaluation of factors that have been discovered or referred by on-shift operations teams
- Support cross-functional efforts and special operations projects with multi-functional teams
- Facilitate on-shift operations team training for recurring scenarios, ops affecting upgrades, and the Operational Crew Training and Certification process
- Identify and autonomously implement ideas, solutions, processes, procedures, and checklists focused on continuous process improvement, more efficient operations, and reduced system outages
What We’re Looking For:
If you are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Senior Engineer, Operations Support role supporting a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Senior Engineer, Opeartions Support you’ll be responsible for providing critical technical support to the team performing 24x7 Operations in Huntsville, Alabama. RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED!!! Inquire about details. You will primarily work regular business hours in a 24-hour, multi-satellite operations environment while occasionally working night shifts or weekends. Working in this role, you’ll gain valuable experience performing anomaly and issue resolution, troubleshooting, and identifying root cause and determining corrective actions. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to be part of a team on the forefront of one of the most advanced satellite constellations in the world and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and space systems.
This position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
What You’ll Do:
- Track, trend, and analyze potential problems and anomalous conditions that may affect operations of the ground system
- Provide on-call support, real-time investigation, and troubleshooting for operations anomalies related to the subsystems of Ground Resource Management, Fleet Management, Mission Planning, and Flight Dynamics
- Investigate and resolve issues where situations require an in-depth evaluation of factors that have been discovered or referred by on-shift operations teams
- Support cross-functional efforts and special operations projects with multi-functional teams
- Facilitate on-shift operations team training for recurring scenarios, ops affecting upgrades, and the Operational Crew Training and Certification process
- Identify and autonomously implement ideas, solutions, processes, procedures, and checklists focused on continuous process improvement, more efficient operations, and reduced system outages
What We’re Looking For:
If you are passionate about space and deploying disruptive space technology, then you will be excited about the Principal Network Engineer opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. The Principal Network Engineer will assist our Network Infrastructure team with the design, deployment, integration, and management of Juniper and Cisco hardware in tightly controlled areas that support several Mission critical environments. You will be responsible for managing multiple activities and projects, including those with cross-functional teams to include deployment of Juniper hardware as well as various other monitoring and scanning tools necessary to ensure a fault-tolerant, reliable, and scalable infrastructure across the Iridium's Mission and Commercial networks. In this role, you will also work independently to configure and maintain network infrastructure devices and Local and Wide Area Networks contributing to the overall success of the Commercial, Mission & Test, and remote Teleport networks.
This position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
What You’ll Do:
- Work independently to design and deploy scalable network devices, including automated route distribution methods using frameworks such as NetConf Yang and Ansible
- Craft solutions to enable team members to assist in problems and apply consistent solutions across different environments and teams
- Be responsible for the day-to-day operations of all Network Infrastructure within a small highly controlled environment, not connected to other systems
- Play a key role in providing technical assistance to Support-team related to network traffic congestion, latency issues, link outages, and System performance problems
- Deliver Maintenance and Operations of Mission Critical Network Infrastructure systems to support Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks across multiple sites
- Perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of networking and security hardware, and operating systems and review work of junior team members
- Maintain documentation, audit logs, and adhere to Configuration Management rules required to meet compliance
- Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the DevOps and network industries, technologies, and best practices and transform research to support direction and decision making
- Provide real time troubleshooting and problem resolution for escalated issues as required
What We’re Looking For:
If you are passionate about space and deploying disruptive space technology, we want to talk to you! Iridium is seeking a motivated Satellite Ground Terminal Engineer for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. You’ll work to implement strategic plans and objectives under the direction of senior management, including managing delivery of high-quality results and solutions. In this role, you’ll assist with numerous technical aspects of the architecture and design of the ground segment. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to be part of a team on the forefront of one of the most advanced satellite constellations in the world.
This position requires the possession of or ability to obtain an active/current Top Secret/SCI U.S. Security Clearance with the ability to obtain CI Polygraph (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
What You’ll Do:
- Use breadth of knowledge to drive and define line of business/functional knowledge, ensuring system engineering best practices and processes are applied to ground and payload controller systems developed for various external projects
- Perform requirements analysis, definition, decomposition, and management for Space and Ground Segments
- Work closely with other project System Engineers on current government-based projects
- Be responsible for exercising technical authority over projects
- Work closely with program managers and other key stakeholders to determine resource needs, technical development schedules and major milestones
- Conduct required system analysis (functional & performance), interface definition, and detailed trade studies, analyzing multiple data sources to respond to frequent, complex, and high impact situations
- Lead technical team in support of major reviews such as: Systems Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR), Test Readiness Review (TRR), and Operations Readiness Review (ORR) as well as Program Increment Demonstrations
- Be accountable for the coordination and delivery of technical assignments designed with end goals in mind
- Be accountable for ensuring that projects meet technical performance targets, deliver quality results, and activities are well-designed and meet overall project objectives
- Play a key role in making strategic project decisions and provide system engineering best practices in program design and delivery, utilizing critical thinking skills to better design new or developing systems
The Iridium Internship Program is an opportunity for students to be a part of the Iridium teams shaping the future of satellite communications. As an Intern, you’ll begin making an impact on real projects from day one! Come prepared to grow, develop, and learn alongside a team and the leaders of our company. The Iridium Internship program is a 12-week program that runs from May 20, 2024 to August 9, 2024. During the program, interns will have the opportunity to provide valuable support to an Iridium department on a project or important work assignment. Interns will also be provided an opportunity to engage with senior leadership and fellow interns via regular engagement activities. Interns will participate in an end of internship presentation, where we ask them to reflect on their summer internships and present a summary of what they have learned and accomplished.
Iridium is seeking a bright intern to join the Satellite Platform Team and work directly with all subsystems. Their main objective will be to learn how engineers work as a team and accomplish their day-to-day tasks. You will be given specific projects to accomplish during your time here which will be presented and evaluated at the end of the summer.
What You’ll Do:
- Assist with satellite platform data analysis.
- Support satellite anomaly resolution and lessons learned documentation updates (checklists, procedures, etc.)
- Be responsible for completing one or more projects.
- Work on satellite data analysis tools.
- Participate in producing, reviewing, and editing of technical documents involving Iridium Satellite platform subsystems.
Skills You’ll Obtain:
- Real-world experience in chosen field of interest and related topics through multiple hands-on projects
- Critical thinking and analytical skills
- Develop basic knowledge of the Platform subsystems of the Iridium satellite, which includes systems for Data Handling, Platform Software, Attitude Control, Electrical Power, Thermal Control and Propulsion.
- Learn how engineers work together as a team and across departments.
- Learn how to communicate in a technical environment via technical document creation and correspondence.
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and professional demeanor
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience in software development and basic programming skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills with experience in MS Word, PPT and Excel
What We’re Looking For:
Iridium is seeking a talented, motivated, and experienced Software Engineer III to join our Automation Software Engineering team. A Software Engineer III is expected to both write and review code, as well as establish and maintain framework infrastructure throughout our agile development cycle. In this role, you’ll gain valuable experience designing and developing automation for interdisciplinary projects, and supporting team members with day-to-day activities. You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy software engineering, design, devops, research, deep-dive troubleshooting, and detail-oriented tasks in both individual and team-based settings.
What You’ll Do:
- Work with industry standard tools and software such as Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana, Amazon Web Services, CI/CD pipelines, event-driven messaging, containers and more.
- Participate in an Agile software team to collaborate and coordinate with team members on a variety of tasks including:
- Software architecture design
- API definition, design, and implementation
- Virtualization and containerization
- Automation framework infrastructure deployment
- Hardware communications
- Data transformation and visualization
- Solve complex problems and offer creative solutions by becoming a technical leader within the automation organization
- Translate User Stories into specific actionable tasks
- Maintain and expand existing software tools, lab environment, and hardware components.
- Create documentation that clearly presents complex information
- Learn the details and protocols of the Iridium satellite constellation and ground systems to better assist the internal Iridium teams
What We’re Looking For:
If you are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Engineer I, Mission Planner opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Mission Planner, you’ll participate in monitoring and controlling ground systems at the Operations Centers in Grand Forks, ND or Huntsville, AL. You will work 12-hour shifts with a team in a 24-hour, multi-satellite operations environment. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to be part of a team on the forefront of one of the most advanced satellite constellations in the world and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and space systems.
This position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
What You’ll Do:
- Assist your team in the scheduling of all satellite and ground resources to accomplish mission objectives; help with performing activity deconfliction, resource allocation, and determining optimal load balancing for traffic on the network
- Participate in creating, validating, and distributing all necessary products for the network including satellite and ground site schedules, antenna acquisition tables, and satellite routing almanacs
- Work closely with other teams to incorporate and deconflict maintenance events and special scheduling tasks
- Help with crafting the development and maintenance of Mission Planning procedures
- Continuously look for ways to improve tools and processes for streamlined operations
What We’re Looking For:
If you are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Flight Dynamics Analyst opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Flight Dynamics Analyst, you’ll participate in monitoring and controlling ground systems at the Operations Centers in Grand Forks, ND or Huntsville, AL. You will work 12-hour shifts with a team in a 24-hour, multi-satellite operations environment. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to be part of a team on the forefront of one of the most advanced satellite constellations in the world and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and space systems.
This position requires an active/current Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
What You’ll Do:
- Assist in performing near real-time constellation position trending, monitoring, and management
- Help your team to develop and validate all station-keeping maneuvers to maintain tight pointing and crosslink requirements and assist in the execution all maneuver planning for ascent, collision avoidance, and cross-track maneuvers
- Support the team by assisting in real-time conjunction analysis to assess the risk of collision and execute mitigation efforts as deemed necessary
- Aid in ensuring the quality and timely generation of predictive orbital events to support other domains
- Continuously look for ways to improve tools and processes for streamlined operations
What We’re Looking For:
If you are a science and space enthusiast who is excited about working on cutting-edge technology and with a talented team of professionals, then you will be excited about the Ground System Operator I opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Ground System Operator I, you will participate in monitoring and controlling ground systems at the SDA Operations Centers in Grand Forks, ND or Huntsville, AL. RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED!!! Inquire about details. You will work 12-hour shifts with a team in a 24/7, multi-satellite operations environment. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to learn and execute new technical skills and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and space systems.
This position requires an active/current Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
What You’ll Do:
- Assist with real-time monitoring of the ground system in support of the SDA mission
- Participate in analyzing operational data and executing first level troubleshooting to resolve issues
- Assist with monitoring spacecraft fleet-level health and status
- Work collaboratively with the team to detect and recover from issues within the Iridium ground system applications, and for a global network of remote teleport antennas and Wide Area Network (WAN).
- Support real-time anomaly investigation and resolution and follow established Fault Escalation policies and procedures
- Support process improvement initiatives by properly documenting all events through an anomaly and issue reporting process
- Create accurate, timely, and descriptive event logging for all ground system outages or system events
What We’re Looking For:
If you are a science and space enthusiast who is excited about working on cutting-edge technology and with a talented team of professionals, then you will be excited about the Ground System Operator II opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Ground System Operator II, you will participate in monitoring and controlling ground systems at the SDA Operations Center in Grand Forks, ND. RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED!!! Inquire about details. You will work 12-hour shifts with a team in a 24/7, multi-satellite operations environment. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to learn and execute new technical skills and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and space systems.
This position requires an active/current Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
What You’ll Do:
- Perform real-time monitoring of the ground system in support of the SDA mission
- Analyze operational data and execute first level troubleshooting to resolve issues
- Monitor spacecraft fleet-level health and status
- Work collaboratively with the team to detect and recover from issues within the Iridium ground system applications, and for a global network of remote teleport antennas and Wide Area Network (WAN).
- Support real-time anomaly investigation and resolution and follow established Fault Escalation policies and procedures
- Support process improvement initiatives by properly documenting all events through an anomaly and issue reporting process
- Create accurate, timely, and descriptive event logging for all ground system outages or system events
What We’re Looking For:
If you are a science and space enthusiast who is excited about working on cutting-edge technology and with a talented team of professionals, then you will be excited about the Ground System Operator II opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Ground System Operator II, you will participate in monitoring and controlling ground systems at the SDA Operations Center in Huntsville, AL. RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED!!! Inquire about details. You will work 12-hour shifts with a team in a 24/7, multi-satellite operations environment. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to learn and execute new technical skills and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and space systems.
This position requires an active/current Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
What You’ll Do:
- Perform real-time monitoring of the ground system in support of the SDA mission
- Analyze operational data and execute first level troubleshooting to resolve issues
- Monitor spacecraft fleet-level health and status
- Work collaboratively with the team to detect and recover from issues within the Iridium ground system applications, and for a global network of remote teleport antennas and Wide Area Network (WAN).
- Support real-time anomaly investigation and resolution and follow established Fault Escalation policies and procedures
- Support process improvement initiatives by properly documenting all events through an anomaly and issue reporting process
- Create accurate, timely, and descriptive event logging for all ground system outages or system events
Looking for a meaningful internship opportunity that will give you real-world experience and help you grow as a professional? Look no further than the Iridium Internship Program where you will be an integral part of the Iridium teams shaping the future of satellite communications! The Iridium Internship program is a 12-week program that runs from May 20, 2024 to August 9, 2024. As an Iridium Intern, you’ll begin making an impact on real projects from day one! During the program, come prepared to grow, develop, and learn alongside a team and the leaders of our company. Our Interns are offered a unique opportunity to provide valuable support to Iridium on projects and work assignments as well as the chance to participate in exciting activities that will allow you to connect with senior leadership and fellow interns.
What We’re Looking For:
Iridium is seeking a stand-out Systems Engineer Intern with a desire to learn about the Systems Engineering (SE) process. This will include gaining knowledge of the use of SE tools such as DOORS & other JIRA based applications and participation in the different working group meetings where system requirements are generated, assessed & flowed down to different segments. The Intern will also learn how to conduct trade studies by participating in analyses which will determine the proper course of action during the design phase of the project and working on various projects which will allow the intern to gain exposure to different satellite services and projects.
What You’ll Do:
- Work with different project engineers on requirements management, including learning the tools and processes, and entering, modifying, organizing, and exporting reports
- Assist in writing requirements and specifications
- Support engineering analysis for different aspects of the assigned projects
- Support systems engineering technical interchange meetings
- Assist in chart preparation for project reviews and other meetings
Skills You’ll Obtain:
- Real-world experience in chosen field of interest and related topics through multiple hands-on projects
- Critical thinking and analytical skills
- Working in and contributing to a team environment
- Organization and time management
- Developing techniques that can effectively be used in engineering trade studies
- Ability to write clear and testable requirements
- Develop technical writing skills
- A working knowledge of Mobile Satellite Systems & Services
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and professional demeanor
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience desired with the following:
- STK experience
- 3D CAD experience
- Matlab
- Python
- Magic Draw
Looking for a meaningful internship opportunity that will give you real-world experience and help you grow as a professional? Look no further than the Iridium Internship Program where you will be an integral part of the Iridium teams shaping the future of satellite communications! The Iridium Internship program is a 12-week program that runs from May 20, 2024 to August 9, 2024. As an Iridium Intern, you’ll begin making an impact on real projects from day one! During the program, come prepared to grow, develop, and learn alongside a team and the leaders of our company. Our Interns are offered a unique opportunity to provide valuable support to Iridium on projects and work assignments as well as the chance to participate in exciting activities that will allow you to connect with senior leadership and fellow interns.
What We’re Looking For:
Iridium seeks a stand-out engineering student to contribute to the research, development, testing, and the sustaining engineering of the Iridium mobile products. Education or demonstrated experience in electrical, software, and/or systems engineering practice is necessary for success in this position. Additional potential responsibilities are detailed below; once selected, internship will be tailored to interests and strengths of candidate.
What You’ll Do:
- Circuit design and/or circuit evaluation, capture schematics, layout PCB's, populate PCB's
- Define system interfaces, create requirements, draft test plans, capture traceability
- Present designs for formal review and discussion
- Participate in hardware, software, and/or system design reviews for ongoing projects
- Perform acceptance reviews of work conducted by subcontractors
- Review test reports to validate issue closure
- Respectfully work cross functionally within the organization
Skills You’ll Obtain:
- Real-world experience in chosen field of interest and related topics through multiple hands-on projects
- Critical thinking and analytical skills
- Working in and contributing to a team environment
- Organization and time management
- Participation in advanced-level design, implementation, and test discussions
- Exposure to practical project management techniques and practices
- Broadening of knowledge base through weekly technical and business topic seminars
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and professional demeanor
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Demonstrated hardware, software, or systems integration and troubleshooting experience
- Experience in C and/or Python is highly desired for software engineering tasks
- Experience with common laboratory test equipment is highly desired for hardware engineering tasks
- Knowledgeable about embedded software and hardware systems for systems engineering tasks
Looking for a meaningful internship opportunity that will give you real-world experience and help you grow as a professional? Look no further than the Iridium Internship Program where you will be an integral part of the Iridium teams shaping the future of satellite communications! The Iridium Internship program is a 12-week program that runs from May 20, 2024 to August 9, 2024. As an Iridium Intern, you’ll begin making an impact on real projects from day one! During the program, come prepared to grow, develop, and learn alongside a team and the leaders of our company. Our Interns are offered a unique opportunity to provide valuable support to Iridium on projects and work assignments as well as the chance to participate in exciting activities that will allow you to connect with senior leadership and fellow interns.
What You’ll Do:
The specifics will vary while the interns rotate through the two teams, and may include:
- Develop or update software tools for subsystem engineers and the operations floor
- Update or create operational work products such as scripts, procedures, and checklists
- Depending on the intern's degree program, may perform engineering investigations and analysis of various satellite subsystems
- Performing simulations and presenting results
Work assignments will be based on the degree field of the intern, areas of interest for the intern, and areas of need for the SNOC team.
Skills You’ll Obtain:
- Real-world experience in chosen field of interest and related topics through multiple hands-on projects
- Critical thinking and analytical skills
- Working in and contributing to a team environment
- Organization and time management
- Technical writing and presentation skills
- A working knowledge of Satellite Operations
- Communication skills to interact with SMEs for work products
- Software development using any of Perl, Python, MATLAB, Java script and JAVA
- Application of engineering design, principals, and theory to satellite operations
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and professional demeanor
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
The Iridium Internship Program is an opportunity for students to be a part of the Iridium teams shaping the future of satellite communications. As an Intern, you’ll begin making an impact on real projects from day one! Come prepared to grow, develop, and learn alongside a team and the leaders of our company. The Iridium Internship program is a 12-week program that runs from May 20, 2024 to August 9, 2024. During the program, interns will have the opportunity to provide valuable support to an Iridium department on a project or important work assignment. Interns will also be provided an opportunity to engage with senior leadership and fellow interns via regular engagement activities. Interns will participate in an end of internship presentation, where we ask them to reflect on their summer internships and present a summary of what they have learned and accomplished.
What We’re Looking For:
Iridium seeks a stand-out Systems Engineer Intern with a desire to learn about the Systems Engineering (SE) process. This will include gaining knowledge of the use of SE tools such as DOORS & other JIRA based applications and participation in the different working group meetings where system requirements are generated, assessed & flowed down to different segments. The Intern will also learn how to conduct trade studies by participating in analyses which will determine the proper course of action during the design phase of the project and working on various projects which will allow the intern to gain exposure to different satellite services and projects.
What You’ll Do:
- Work with different project engineers on requirements management, including learning the tools and processes, and entering, modifying, organizing, and exporting reports
- Assist in writing requirements and specifications
- Support engineering analysis for different aspects of the assigned projects
- Support systems engineering technical interchange meetings
- Assist in chart preparation for project reviews and other meetings
Skills You’ll Obtain:
- Real-world experience in chosen field of interest and related topics through multiple hands-on projects
- Critical thinking and analytical skills
- Working in and contributing to a team environment
- Organization and time management
- Developing techniques that can effectively be used in engineering trade studies
- Ability to write clear and testable requirements
- Develop technical writing skills
- A working knowledge of Mobile Satellite Systems & Services
What You Will Need To Succeed:
- Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and professional demeanor
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience desired with the following:
- STK experience
- 3D CAD experience
- Matlab
- Python
- Magic Draw
- C++
The Iridium Internship Program is an opportunity for students to be a part of the Iridium teams shaping the future of satellite communications. As an Intern, you’ll begin making an impact on real projects from day one! Come prepared to grow, develop, and learn alongside a team and the leaders of our company. The Iridium Internship program is a 12-week program that runs from May 20, 2024 to August 9, 2024. During the program, interns will have the opportunity to provide valuable support to an Iridium department on a project or important work assignment. Interns will also be provided an opportunity to engage with senior leadership and fellow interns via regular engagement activities. Interns will participate in an end of internship presentation, where we ask them to reflect on their summer internships and present a summary of what they have learned and accomplished.
What We’re Looking For:
The Intern, Product Management, will perform various tasks associated with the creation of new products and services within Iridium, including experience in many of aspects of product development and management. They will come away with a much deeper understanding of what it takes to create products and services "in the real world."
What You’ll Do:
- Assist with collecting and developing requirements, defining, and managing trial activity, evaluating, and participating in go-to-market strategic plans,
- Perform Industry and product research and analysis and present your summarized findings and implications
- Support Senior Product Managers as they work with the engineer teams and customers. Your experience and aptitude will help define the activities you receive.
Skills You’ll Obtain:
- Real-world experience in chosen field of interest and related topics through multiple hands-on projects
- Critical thinking and analytical skills
- Working in and contributing to a team environment
- Organization and time management
- Development of Marketing collateral and user facing documentation (e.g., slick sheets, web page content, PPT slides, etc.) in conjunction with other product management professionals and Marketing.
- Knowledge of and experience in key evaluation methods for new products and services during the development and testing phase (e.g., alpha and beta trial execution, active testing of new capabilities, involvement in test campaigns ongoing with IV&V).
- Understanding of how products and services are conceptualized and evolve into real, usable functionality.
- Ability to communicate effectively and clearly with team members
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and professional demeanor
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills with experience in Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel
- Ability to work in virtual and in-person environments
- Knowledge of or interest in telecommunications, systems development, and/or product management methodology
What We’re Looking For:
If you are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Senior Operations Support Engineer supporting a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Senior Operations Support Engineer, you’ll be responsible for providing critical technical support to the team performing 24x7 Operations in Huntsville, Alabama. You will primarily work regular business hours in a 24-hour, multi-satellite operations environment while occasionally working night shifts or weekends. Working in this role, you’ll gain valuable experience performing anomaly and issue resolution, troubleshooting, and identifying root cause and determining corrective actions. You will thrive in this role if you have a desire to be part of a team on the forefront of one of the most advanced satellite constellations in the world and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and space systems.
This position requires an active/current Top Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a Top Secret Security Clearance (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active).
What You’ll Do:
- Track, trend, and analyze potential problems and anomalous conditions that may affect operations of the ground system
- Provide on-call support, real-time investigation, and troubleshooting for operations anomalies related to the subsystems of Ground Resource Management, Fleet Management, Mission Planning, and Flight Dynamics
- Investigate and resolve issues where situations require an in-depth evaluation of factors that have been discovered or referred by on-shift operations teams
- Support cross-functional efforts and special operations projects with multi-functional teams
- Facilitate on-shift operations team training for recurring scenarios, ops affecting upgrades, and the Operational Crew Training and Certification process
- Identify and autonomously implement ideas, solutions, processes, procedures, and checklists focused on continuous process improvement, more efficient operations, and reduced system outages
What We’re Looking For:
Iridium is seeking a motivated 3GPP Standards System Engineer to join our System Architecture Team and lead integration efforts between Iridium and 4G/5G networks. As a 3GPP Standards Systems Engineer, you’ll work closely with peer system architects and senior management to establish strategic plans and objectives in support of Iridium’s goals in evolving terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks. This role will encompass leading efforts to advocate for Iridium in 3GPP standards, as well as driving adoption of 5G technologies within Iridium’s network roadmap. As such, it is a unique opportunity to be at the intersection of satellite and terrestrial networks. You’ll be successful in this role if you enjoy developing a long-term vision and working with cross-functional teams to establish partnerships and coalitions to pursue common goals in the standards bodies and industry.
What You’ll Do:
- Analyze options for deploying 3GPP architectures to support our long-term strategic goals
- Craft proposals to align 3GPP standards and Iridum system architecture roadmaps to benefit from 3GPP standard architectures and commercial components
- Play a key role in setting standards for new service developments. Act as a standards representative/agent of change within the company
- Represent Iridium in standards meetings and contribute to standards relevant to Iridium’s business
- Manage competing constraints for both long-term goals and operational requirements when architecting solutions
- Provides subject matter expertise to ensure standards options are well communicated and well documented to ensure the system architecture is supportable within the approved standards
What We’re Looking For:
Iridium is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer to join our Product Software Engineering Team. As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for enhancing and sustaining the source code used in our mobile products and associated engineering tools. Working in this role, you’ll gain valuable experience maintaining software for Iridium’s transceivers while making a long-term impact on new high-quality products for our customers. You’ll thrive in this role if you are passionate about creating reliable and robust products, interested in the long-term success of your work, and highly self reliant.
What You’ll Do:
- Improve and maintain software for Iridium transceivers
- Integrate, build, and configuration manage source code from disparate vendors and sources
- Participates in reviews of work performed by other team members
- Diagnose and debug transceiver to space vehicle communication performance issues
- Investigate and resolve field-reported product issues
- Create software requirements and plan for test validation
- Write and maintain regression tests for product software
- Write ICDs and document APIs for existing and future products
- Install and maintain software continuous integration systems
- Work collaboratively with software, hardware, and system development engineers
- Work cross functionally to instill a strong culture of product quality within the organization