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 autonomously participate in monitoring and controlling ground systems at the Operations Center in 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 - Play a role in 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 Engineer III, 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 Center in 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: - Perform the scheduling of all satellite and ground resources to accomplish mission objectives; perform activity deconfliction, resource allocation, and determine optimal load balancing for traffic on the network - Create, validate, and distribute 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 - Take an active role in 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 enjoy leading and guiding teams following an Agile mindset, then you will be excited about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) Release Train Engineer opening with Iridium. As a Release Train Engineer, you will facilitate Agile Release Train events and processes, and support teams in delivering value. As a Release Train Engineer you will communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement. You will be responsible for supporting the program, delivering high-quality work throughout the program lifecycle, including analyzing program delivery metrics and sharing this knowledge across Iridium’s multiple organizations.   What You’ll Do: - Coach teams on Agile values, principles, and SAFe® best practices - Facilitate program meetings and planning sessions - Partner with program/product owners and project stakeholders to clearly specify future program iteration goals - Work with the product leadership and development teams on requirements decomposition, backlog refinement, and work effort estimation - Partner with product owners to set delivery priorities that guide the development team to deliver the right product at the right time - Promote program transparency by creating and communicating Agile Release Train metrics to stakeholders - Support a learning culture by facilitating iteration reviews and retrospectives - Recommend process improvements, through investigation and analysis, that can resolve program or team challenges - Advocate for the delivery team’s needs What You’ll Need to Succeed: - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues clearly and confidently, and recognize and adapt to different communication techniques - Can easily build meaningful relationships with others, including senior leadership outside of your own department, and is comfortable providing constructive feedback to your team members and management - Be able to analyze a situation or problem, generate effective solutions, and see those solutions through to completion - Capable of prioritizing your own tasks while making sure deadlines are met - Recognize and understand team dynamics and how to coach others - Be proactive in providing team performance feedback and be enthusiastic in sharing your knowledge with others - Be curious. Ability to diagnose and analyze business systems and workflow with the goal of improving future outcomes

What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking an exceptional and experienced Senior Engineer within our Systems Integration & Test engineering team who will perform requirements analysis, test planning, test case development on new products and services; perform systems level testing and end-to-end analysis; and support team members with advanced systems knowledge. The Senior Engineer will be able to; work with limited direction; independently document and present results and troubleshoot issues. What You’ll Do: - Apply knowledge of systems level testing by performing test planning, procedure development, test execution, analysis, and issue resolution for all aspects of the Iridium system including but not limited to: - Testing of satellite payload communications systems - Iridium GSM based telephony and services - Space Vehicle (SV) to L-Band subscriber equipment - Space flight vehicle bus/platform operations - Ground network configurations and SV command and control - Conduct requirements analysis and decomposition of systems requirements into verifiable test objectives - Actively participate in activities to define, configure, and maintain lab environments - Support customers and team members to achieve project delivery milestones - Perform and implement continuous improvement processes that reduce test cycle time and improve product quality, and implement best practices - Create documentation that clearly presents complex information in a discernable manner

What We’re Looking For: If you are intrigued by space and satellites and love managing technical programs in a fast-paced and customer-focused environment, then you will be excited about the Program Management Associate Director opening with Iridium on a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. In this position, you’ll be responsible for working with senior management to establish strategic plans and objectives as it relates to a high-impact program with a multi-million dollar impact to the company. In this role, you will focus primarily on developing end-to-end system solutions, new product development, or network elements within the Iridium architecture. You will succeed in this role if you have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to successfully work with customers, build relationships, and lead the technical team to deliver solutions that meet our customer’s needs and expectations.   This position requires 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: - Work with senior management to develop strategic plans associated with the development and execution of the program’s technical vision, including managing delivery of high-quality results and complex solutions and providing ideas and suggestions for continuous improvement cross-functionally - Manage the coordination and delivery of multiple or complex assignments designed with end goals in mind, within identified timeline and budget - Ensure that projects meet financial performance targets as established in project pipeline budgets and Estimates to Complete - Ensure that projects deliver quality results, activities are well-designed, and funds are expended to meet overall project objectives, contract deliverables, and indicator targets - Serve as a sounding board on strategic program decisions and provide thought leadership in program design and delivery - Manage the requirements and planning basis in a methodical and organized manner, including use of configuration management practices (CM) - Supervise proposal development and execution for future contracts and amendments - Provide clear briefings to senior leadership, managing significant risks and issue resolution

What We’re Looking For: Embark on an exciting journey in the world of satellite communication as a Configuration Control Specialist at Iridium. With your experience, you'll play an important role in the success of our Satellite Communication Systems. Joining our dynamic team, you'll help execute program and project Operations Configuration Control efforts, implementing release processes and software builds. Additionally, you'll contribute to change management, product release strategies, and other related tasks. If you're seeking a stimulating environment where you can utilize your skills and make an impact, we invite you to apply. Join us in revolutionizing the way satellite communication is executed and take your career to new heights.   What You’ll Do: - Support Software, Systems and Operations Engineering in the identification of project/program configuration items and associated configuration documentation - Collaborate with our architecture, infrastructure, and core CRM development teams to automate operations for the software development teams - Facilitate Change Control Boards and track change records from creation to release and implementation - Coordinate with other engineering disciplines and internal and external customers to ensure compliance with all regulatory and Software CM requirements - Oversee software builds, and deployments - Troubleshoot failed builds, and collaboratinge with the appropriate development team when needed - Participate in emergency incident response and investigations - Show willingness to research and implement continuous process improvements to processes and utilize technologies used more effectively - Produce Software CM related metrics and report to project/program stakeholders - Ensure compliance with manufacturing license agreements, export compliance, security regulations and Iridum’s information protection processes - Perform Scrum Master role for projects following an Agile based methodology

What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking a motivated Principal Software System Engineer to join our Space Vehicle Software Team! As a Principal Software System Engineer, you’ll work with senior management to implement strategic plans and objectives, including managing delivery of high-quality results and complex solutions. In this role, you’ll be responsible for being the Principal Software System Engineer for Iridium’s new NB-IoT program known as Stardust, and your primary focus will be all technical aspects of the architecture and design of the space-based functionality of that service.  You’ll be successful in this role if you have extensive experience in Software and System Engineering and in-depth knowledge of both space and ground telephony networks and have worked with 3GPP specifications and specifically NB-IoT.   What You’ll Do: - Use your breadth of knowledge to support definition and decomposition of system level requirements, ensuring system engineering best practices and processes are applied to payload systems developed for the Dynamic Network Architecture program - Perform required analysis, definition, decomposition, and management - Be responsible for exercising technical authority over projects - Work closely with Project Managers and the Software Development team 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 the segment technical team in support of major reviews such as: Software Requirement Review, Preliminary Design Review, and Program Increment Demonstrations - Responsible for the coordination and delivery of multiple or complex technical assignments designed with end goals in mind, including managing shifting priorities - Responsible for ensuring that projects deliver quality results, activities are well designed and overall project objectives are met - Play a key role in providing system engineering best practices in program design and delivery - Partner with stakeholders to understand their technical needs - Demonstrate the ability to understand how complex issues are affecting project operations, and identify and design the formation of innovative solutions from concept through to completion - Comfortably present complex results with limited preparation and develop ability to speak persuasively to those within the team - Identify and manage issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of complex factors - Utilize critical thinking skills to better design new or developing systems

What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking a motivated Constellation Architect to join our System Architecture Team. As a Constellation Architect, you’ll be responsible for developing the vision for Iridium’s constellation technologies (including plans for 3GPP 6G technologies) to support our worldwide services. In this role, your primary focus will be setting the path for how to evolve our global system to increase our capacity and market adoption while retaining our existing customer base, including considerations regarding 3GPP 6G technologies. You’ll be successful in this role if you enjoy developing a long term strategy for how various constellation designs and standards-based technologies can be leveraged to expand our offered services and system capacity and are ready to help lead the organization embrace that vision.   What You’ll Do: - Conceptualize incremental evolutionary opportunities and greenfield approaches, including steering the standards process to support our needs in supporting existing services and new services - Analyze, evaluate, and determine approaches for migrating to new architectures to support our long-term strategic goals - Play a key role in vetting constellation technology trades & spectrum options as well as setting architectural patterns for new developments - Ensure constellation, spectrum and service options are well-communicated and well-documented to ensure the system architecture is evolvable and sustainable - Manage competing constraints for both long-term goals and operational requirements when architecting solutions - Provides subject matter expertise to ensure architectural plans are well-communicated and well-documented to ensure the system architecture is evolvable and sustainable - Implements improvements by setting objectives and effectively managing multiple priorities

What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking a self-motivated Senior Mechanical Engineer to join the Iridium Product Engineering Team.   As a member of the Product Development Team, you’ll be responsible for technical product ownership to include product design, design support, product manufacturability, product sustainability, partner design integration, design validation, and product regulatory compliance.   What You’ll Do: - Be responsible for product development efforts, partner design integration, design verification and design support for internal and external customers - Develop and improve data products, reference designs, supporting documentation, and supplemental materials for partners, quality, supply chain, manufacturing, and regulatory stakeholders - Investigate, determine strategies and actions for issues and risks in new and existing designs - Manage and prioritize assignments for multiple hardware development projects adhering to deadlines, policies and procedures - Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and diverse stakeholders to support the technical needs of large complex team projects and new product developments - Manage design data, storage, revision control, engineering changes, configuration control, and database administration

What We’re Looking For: In this role you will manage an existing team in subscriber product hardware development, testing, and sustainment engineering activities on our Product Engineering team.  As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for overseeing product testing, analysis, design, regulatory compliance, change and configuration management.  In addition to these responsibilities, you'll also get the chance to coach and mentor junior engineers, helping to shape the future of our team.    You’ll thrive in this role if you are passionate about creating reliable and robust sustainable products, interested in the long-term success of your work, and highly self reliant.   What You’ll Do: - Foster and develop a highly effective team of Product Engineers to test, analyze, and design cuttinig edge products - Facilitate a close working relationship with product owners and stakeholders to manage and prioritize issue resolution and product improvements while communicating risk, timing, cost, and value to the broader organization - Think laterally, provide analysis, make suggestions, and implement processes that improve product quality, reliability, and longevity - Perform test planning, procedure development, and analysis activities for all hardware aspects of Iridium transceivers - Mentor and train your team by evaluating employees’ performance, recognizing areas for improvement, and providing reliable solutions to problems that may impact your team’s effectiveness - Lead efforts to release new and existing designs into manufacturing, managing engineering changes, and design configurations - Work collaboratively with multi-sited global teams of software, hardware, and system development engineers - Work cross functionally to instill a strong culture of product quality within the organization - Support customers and team members to achieve project delivery milestones - Accountable for the development of customer facing documentation that clearly presents information for various stakeholders

What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking a motivated Modeling and Simulation Systems Engineer to join our Government Programs Solutions Engineering Team on a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Modeling and Simulation Systems Engineer, you will work on the high-fidelity physics-based and requirements-based modeling and analysis of space and ground network systems.  In addition to performing analysis, you will participate in generating system requirements analysis, decomposition and management, functional and performance analysis, system design, system integration, as well as troubleshooting of network systems. If you enjoy new challenges and dynamic environments, then we want to talk to you!   What You’ll Do: - Drive system engineering best practices and processes to space, ground, and payload controller development for various projects - Proactively perform requirements analysis, definition, decomposition, and management - Collaborate with the Chief Engineer and Project Systems Engineers in exercising technical authority over projects - Conduct required system analysis (functional & performance), interface definition, and detailed trade studies - Play a key role in major reviews such as: Systems Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), and Program Increment Demonstrations - Autonomously perform simulations and analyses that ensure system designs meet technical performance targets - Build, maintain, and contribute to Modeling and Simulation of both space and ground network architectures - Build relationships with stakeholders to understand their technical needs to manage the requirements and planning of the assigned projects - Analyze data and use it to apply new ideas and approaches, such as designing and developing existing and new systems

What We’re Looking For: Iridium is seeking an exceptional and experienced Senior Test Engineer. In this role you will lead research, development, testing, and sustaining engineering activities of Iridium services and ground communications infrastructure. Working in this role, you’ll be responsible for verifying the reliability and robustness of Iridium products and communication services and will participate in the development activities related to our test automation efforts. Demonstrated work experience in engineering practices and software/hardware testing and a desire to build leadership skills are necessary for success in this position. The ideal candidate will have a vested interest in the long-term success of their work with a keen desire to learn and be highly self-reliant.   What You’ll Do: - Independently solve complex problems and offer creative solutions utilizing technical breath of knowledge and experience - Be responsible for maintaining and executing test automation for feature, defect, and regression testing - Play a key role in the mitigation of risks and issues identified - Lead configuration management of the test automation software and scripts - Develop real-time reporting and present results confidently based on test execution and analysis - Recreate reported software and/or hardware non-conformances using test infrastructure and document non-compliances - Identify and develop processes, procedures, tools and/or scripts to maximize system uptime and operational efficiency - Apply technical knowledge of the Iridium satellite constellation and ground systems to accurately and quickly identify issues and defects - Lead the development and maintenance of test plans, procedures, and product documentationAnalyze test results, generate and present reports based on test execution and analysis - Work with industry standard tools and software such as Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana, Amazon Web Services, CI/CD DevOps pipelines, containers and more.

What We’re Looking For: If you are a cloud data engineer that loves designing and building data lake houses to help drive substantive business results, and have 5+ years of experience, then you will be excited about the Cloud Data Engineer opening with Iridium on our Data Management & Analytics team.  As a Cloud Data Engineer at Iridium, you’ll be an integral part of the team that is modernizing and centralizing our data infrastructure. You will succeed in this role by leveraging your strong database development skills.     What You’ll Do: - Help design and develop scalable, reliable, and efficient data pipelines and ETL processes using a variety of AWS services (AWS Glue, AWS DataSync, etc.) and third-party data platforms/tools (Snowflake, DBT, etc.) in an Agile development environment - Implement data ingestion strategies from various sources, including databases, APIs, and streaming platforms, ensuring data quality, integrity, and security - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements, identify data sources, and define data models to support business analytics and reporting needs - Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to data pipelines, ensuring the stability and availability of data for all stakeholders - Implement data security and compliance measures to protect sensitive information and adhere to data governance policies - Monitor and maintain the overall health of the data infrastructure, proactively identifying and addressing potential bottlenecks or inefficiencies

Iridium is seeking an Integration, Verification, and Validation (IV&V) Systems Engineer to lead the research, development, testing and analysis of the Iridium System. The IV&V System Engineer will analyze system and segment level requirements, develop test requirements, generate test plans and procedures, and develop test automation requirements for all aspects of the Iridium system to ensure testability and requirement verification and validation. The System Engineer will also develop innovative solutions to improve testing efficiency and quality through process improvements, training, and automation. If you’re passionate about utilizing your broad knowledge to deliver products and services, and supporting a diverse set of customers, then we want to talk to you.   What You’ll Do: - Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to understand program needs and interpret the needs into the program scope, plan, and execution - Analyze system and segment level requirements and allocate to appropriate level of test - Work with segment teams to coordinate delivery, installation, integration, and test activities - Lead creation of test strategy, test plan, and requirement matrices - Track, investigate, and disposition issues with customers and stakeholders - Provide requirements for testing and automation tools needed to support the integration, test, and analysis of products under test - Lead the creation and management of project backlogs with input from all stakeholders

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 Senior Engineer, Optical Ground Entry Point for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As a Senior Engineer, Optical GEP you’ll be responsible for identifying and autonomously implementing 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 advanced 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 - Work independently to 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 - Collaborate with the 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

What We’re Looking For: Are you a space enthusiast with a passion for cutting-edge technology and a desire to work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry? We have an exciting opportunity for you!  As a Senior Engineer at Iridium, you will be working on the maintenance of our existing real-time Radio Frequency (RF) resource allocation satellite software, as well as contributing to the development of new features and services. With your skills in design, coding, testing, and documentation, you will make a valuable contribution to the team's success. If you're looking to further develop your skills and expertise in a dynamic and innovative environment, we encourage you to apply.   What You’ll Do: - Be responsible for development and maintenance of the satellite software development environment such as testing and build tools. - Perform software development using Atlassian Tools: Jira for task management, Bitbucket for code repository, Fisheye/Crucible for code inspection, Bamboo for building and automated testing and Confluence for documentation. - Play a key role as member of an agile scrum team and lead daily standup meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews/demonstrations, and retrospectives. - Develop software following the team’s ‘Definition of Done’ to ensure that each task is completed to the team’s approved standards. - Participate in backlog grooming meetings to assist the team with gaining understanding of backlog tasks and turning them into single or multiple user stories and estimating the tasks using a story point gauge.

What We’re Looking For: If you are experienced in development, testing, and sustainment engineering activities, then we would enjoy having you on our Product Engineering team.  As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for overseeing product testing and analysis as well as supporting team members with advanced product knowledge. You'll thrive in this role if you love switching between the end-user's perspective and software details, have experience with modern development practices, and are familiar with CI/CD pipelines. In addition to these responsibilities, you'll also get the chance to coach and mentor junior engineers, helping to shape the future of our team.   What You’ll Do: - Foster and develop a highly effective team of Engineers to perform test and analysis of embedded software - Mentor and train your team by performing regular check-ins, discussing career growth opportunities, giving constructive feedback, and managing conflict when necessary - Perform test planning, procedure development, and analysis activities for all aspects of the embedded software of Iridium transceivers - Provide high-quality, cost-effective system integration, test, and support services - Demonstrate advanced knowledge of product testing, including risk-based test planning - Play a key role in activities to define the configurations of lab environments - Work collaboratively with multi-sited global teams of software, hardware, and system development engineers - Work cross functionally to instill a strong culture of product quality within the organization - Support customers and team members to achieve project delivery milestones - Provide analysis, make suggestions, and implement processes that reduce test cycle time and improve product quality - Accountable for the development of documentation that clearly presents information for various stakeholders