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 Satellite System Operator III opening with Iridium on our Space and Ground Services team. As a Satellite System Operator III, you’ll work to monitor and control the Iridium satellite constellation and ground system at the Iridium Satellite Network Operations Center (SNOC). 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 learn and execute new technical skills and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and satellite communications.
What You’ll Do:
Each Satellite Systems Operator III will be trained in and expected to participate in at least 2 of the roles on the real time operations team which are described below. The specific roles will be determined based on the needs of the team at the time of hiring. All operators must complete Iridium Operator Certification within the required time frame as a condition of continued employment. The certification process is a combination of in-house classroom training and on-the-job training (OJT), completed with a combination of pre-defined knowledge and performance objectives.
Satellite Flight Controller, Ground System Operator, and/or Hosted Payload Operator
- Perform real-time monitoring and/or commanding of the Iridium Satellite constellation and/or Aireon Hosted Payload
- Work independently to execute all satellite and/or Aireon Hosted Payload commanding and performing telemetry verification of satellite and/or Aireon Hosted Payload commanding activities
- Perform real-time satellite state of health evaluation, trending, and analysis for first level satellite sub-system engineering troubleshooting and resolving issues
- Conduct real-time satellite anomaly investigation and resolution and follow established Fault Escalation policies and procedures
- Make recommendations for and support process improvement initiatives by properly documenting all satellite and/or Hosted Payload events through the anomaly and issue reporting process
- Work independently on detection and recovery of issues within the Iridium and/or Hosted Payload ground system applications; monitoring and initial troubleshooting of Iridium remote teleport antennas; monitoring and initial troubleshooting of the Iridium Wide Area Network (WAN), and escalate issues to Tier 2 support as appropriate
- Create accurate, timely, and descriptive event logging for all ground system outages or system events, and/or Hosted Payload
What We’re Looking For:
If you are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Satellite System Operator opening with Iridium on our Space and Ground Services team. As a Satellite System Operator, you’ll contribute to monitoring and controlling the Iridium satellite constellation and ground system at the Iridium Satellite Network Operations Center (SNOC). 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 learn and execute new technical skills and are highly motivated and passionate about engineering and satellite communications.
What You’ll Do:
Each Satellite Systems Operator will be trained in and expected to support at least 2 of the roles on the real time operations team which are described below. The specific roles will be determined based on the needs of the team at the time of hiring. All operators must complete Iridium Operator Certification within the required time frame as a condition of continued employment. The certification process is a combination of in-house classroom training and on-the-job training (OJT), completed with a combination of pre-defined knowledge and performance objectives.
Satellite Flight Controller, Ground System Operator, and/or Hosted Payload Operator
- Support routine, real-time monitoring and/or commanding of the Iridium Satellite constellation and/or Aireon Hosted Payload
- Assist with executing all satellite and/or Aireon Hosted Payload commanding and performing telemetry verification of satellite and/or Aireon Hosted Payload commanding activities
- Assist with performing real-time satellite state of health evaluation, trending, and analysis for first level satellite sub-system engineering troubleshooting and resolving issues
- Support real-time satellite anomaly investigation and resolution and follow established Fault Escalation policies and procedures
- Support process improvement initiatives by properly documenting all satellite and/or Hosted Payload events through the anomaly and issue reporting process
- Assist with detection and recovery of issues within the Iridium and/or Hosted Payload ground system applications; monitoring and initial troubleshooting of Iridium remote teleport antennas; monitoring and initial troubleshooting of the Iridium Wide Area Network (WAN), and escalate issues to Tier 2 support as appropriate
- Create accurate, timely, and descriptive event logging for all ground system outages or system events, and/or Hosted Payload
What We’re Looking For:
Iridium is seeking a motivated Systems Engineer to join our Solutions Engineering Team. As a Systems Engineer, you will participate in system requirements analysis, decomposition and management, functional and performance analysis, system design, system integration, as well as troubleshooting of network systems, providing significant value to the team. You will thrive in this role if you are looking to take your engineering career to the next level.
What You’ll Do:
- Apply system engineering best practices and processes to ground and payload controller development for various projects
- Perform requirements analysis, definition, decomposition, and management
- Work with Project Systems Engineers in exercising technical authority over projects
- Conduct required system analysis (functional & performance), interface definition, and detailed trade studies
- Participate in providing input for major reviews such as: SRR, PDR, Program Increment Demonstrations
- Perform analysis that ensures system designs meet technical performance targets
- Participate in Modeling and Simulation of new services
- Gather information from stakeholders to understand their technical needs to manage the requirements and planning of the assigned projects
- Utilize critical thinking skills to support your team in applying new ideas and approaches, such as designing and developing existing and new systems
What We’re Looking For:
If you enjoy learning about and working with breakthrough technologies and are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Senior Engineer, Mission Software opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As the Senior Engineer, Mission Software within the Ground Systems Development team, you will be responsible for software development and maintenance for the Mission Software and supporting applications, while utilizing advanced knowledge of mission planning, data routing and management.Additionally, the Senior Engineer, Mission Software will identify and autonomously implement ideas/solutions within the larger development team to support cross-functional efforts across all areas of ground system software development.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop and enhance software related to mission planning, data routing, and data management
- Develop optimized code for both scalability and performance
- Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite desired)
- Create or maintain build environments for software products
- Play a key role in planning and executing software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets
- Update issue/feature data in Atlassian Project/Software tracking tools
- Follow existing Iridium processes for Change Control, Prioritization, Risk Management, COTS Management, Build and Test software deployments and use advanced knowledge to assist in development of process/procedure documentation materials
- Edit, structure and present data, concepts and arguments clearly and succinctly, through briefings and documentation
- Respond to questions within scope from stakeholders
What We’re Looking For:
If you enjoy learning about and working with breakthrough technologies and are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Senior Engineer, Mission Software opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As the Senior Engineer, Mission Software within the Ground Systems Development team, you will be responsible for software development and maintenance for the Mission Software and supporting applications, while utilizing advanced knowledge of mission planning, data routing and management.Additionally, the Senior Engineer, Mission Software will identify and autonomously implement ideas/solutions within the larger development team to support cross-functional efforts across all areas of ground system software development.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop and enhance software related to mission planning, data routing, and data management
- Develop optimized code for both scalability and performance
- Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite desired)
- Create or maintain build environments for software products
- Play a key role in planning and executing software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets
- Update issue/feature data in Atlassian Project/Software tracking tools
- Follow existing Iridium processes for Change Control, Prioritization, Risk Management, COTS Management, Build and Test software deployments and use advanced knowledge to assist in development of process/procedure documentation materials
- Edit, structure and present data, concepts and arguments clearly and succinctly, through briefings and documentation
- Respond to questions within scope from stakeholders
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:
Jumpstart your engineering career with a dynamic and fast-paced team! Join Iridium's Test Automation Engineering team as an Engineer III! In this role, you’ll be responsible for verifying the reliability and robustness of Iridium products and communication services. In addition, you’ll contribute to the research, development, testing, and sustaining of engineering activities of the Iridium services and ground communications infrastructure. As a member of our team, you will be immersed in a software agile development/test cycle, writing and reviewing code while assisting with automation development, integrating new products, and troubleshooting on multiple interdisciplinary projects. You’ll thrive in this role if you are highly motivated and have a vested interest in the long-term success of your work.
What You’ll Do:
- Facilitate teamwork across various functional disciplines (including software, hardware, and system development engineers) to ensure high product quality
- Work within team objectives to plan and execute software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets
- Support team members in the implementation and maintenance of communication, products, automated test systems, and software
- Independently work to integrate, maintain, and operate Gateway hardware, as well as lab hardware and software systems
- Help to develop optimized code for both scalability and re-usability
- Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite)
- Use depth of knowledge to develop scripts and/or systems that will automatically:
- Test and validate products
- Collect test artifacts
- Produce product test metrics
- Generate reports
- Solve complex problems and offer creative solutions by becoming a technical leader within the organization.
- Recreate reported software and/or hardware non-conformances using test infrastructure and document non-compliances
- Identify and development processes, procedures, tools and/or scripts to maximize system uptime and operational efficiency
- Develop, maintain, and execute test scripts for feature, defect, and regression testing
- Analyze test results, generate and present reports based on test execution and analysis
- Effectively communicate to stakeholders, through meetings and briefings, documentation, planned implementation, and/or issue resolutions
What We’re Looking For:
Jumpstart your engineering career with a dynamic and fast-paced team! Join Iridium's Test Automation Engineering team as an Engineer III! In this role, you’ll be responsible for verifying the reliability and robustness of Iridium products and communication services. In addition, you’ll contribute to the research, development, testing, and sustaining of engineering activities of the Iridium services and ground communications infrastructure. As a member of our team, you will be immersed in a software agile development/test cycle, writing and reviewing code while assisting with automation development, integrating new products, and troubleshooting on multiple interdisciplinary projects. You’ll thrive in this role if you are highly motivated and have a vested interest in the long-term success of your work.
What You’ll Do:
- Facilitate teamwork across various functional disciplines (including software, hardware, and system development engineers) to ensure high product quality
- Work within team objectives to plan and execute software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets
- Support team members in the implementation and maintenance of communication, products, automated test systems, and software
- Independently work to integrate, maintain, and operate Gateway hardware, as well as lab hardware and software systems
- Help to develop optimized code for both scalability and re-usability
- Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite)
- Use depth of knowledge to develop scripts and/or systems that will automatically:
- Test and validate products
- Collect test artifacts
- Produce product test metrics
- Generate reports
- Solve complex problems and offer creative solutions by becoming a technical leader within the organization.
- Recreate reported software and/or hardware non-conformances using test infrastructure and document non-compliances
- Identify and development processes, procedures, tools and/or scripts to maximize system uptime and operational efficiency
- Develop, maintain, and execute test scripts for feature, defect, and regression testing
- Analyze test results, generate and present reports based on test execution and analysis
- Effectively communicate to stakeholders, through meetings and briefings, documentation, planned implementation, and/or issue resolutions
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
What We’re Looking For:
If you enjoy learning about and working with breakthrough technologies and are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Senior Software Engineer opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As the Senior Software Engineer within the Ground Systems Development team, you will apply cutting edge technologies to rapidly develop and deploy ground system operations and user service capabilities within a satellite operations environment.Additionally, the Senior Software Engineer will identify and autonomously implement ideas/solutions within the larger development team to support cross-functional efforts across all areas of ground system software development.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop and enhance ground system software to meet the requirements of the SDA project
- Develop optimized code for both scalability and performance
- Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite desired)
- Create or maintain build environments for software products
- Play a key role in planning and executing software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets
- Update issue/feature data in Atlassian Project/Software tracking tools
- Follow existing Iridium processes for Change Control, Prioritization, Risk Management, Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Management, Build and Test software deployments and use advanced knowledge to assist in development of process/procedure documentation materials
- Edit, structure and present data, concepts and arguments clearly and succinctly through briefings and documentation
- Respond to questions within scope from stakeholders
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:
If you are passionate about space and deploying disruptive space technology, we want to talk to you! Iridium is seeking a motivated Director, Satellite Ground Terminal Engineering for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As the Director, Satellite Ground Terminal Engineering 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 lead a team of engineers and be responsible for 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 and are highly motivated and passionate about leading others.
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:
- Foster and develop a highly effective team of ground terminal engineers to analyze, design, develop, deploy, and operate a system of satellite ground terminals around the world for a U.S. Government (USG) satellite constellation
- 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
- Be the main point of contact and technical lead on specific USG programs for ground terminal solutions, including Radio Frequency (RF), Optical, and ground terminal service solutions
- Solve technical problems with a high degree of creativity and problem-solving capability across a wide range of subject areas to develop and deliver customized solutions to challenging requirements
- Provide technical leadership across multiple disciplines including software, mechanical, RF, optical, digital, and software/hardware testing
- Define high-level architecture and design of high-reliability, high-performance, secure applications as well as hands on development and implementation
- Use specialized 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 closely with other project System Engineers on current government-based projects
- Be responsible for exercising technical authority over ground terminal projects
- Work closely with the USG 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 a 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:
If you are experienced in Network Operations or IT Technical Support, then you will be excited about the NOC Technician opening with Iridium on our Gateway Technical Operations team. As a NOC Technician, you’ll contribute to monitoring Iridium Gateways and remote site equipment to ensure timely resolution of issues and outage notifications in a 24x7x365 environment. You will thrive if you have a keen desire to learn, a high aptitude for retaining new and ever-changing information, self-motivating, and enjoy working as part of truly team-centric culture.
What You’ll Do:
- Contribute to the team that is responsible for monitoring and testing the Gateway network elements per written operational procedures
- Assist with remote maintenance per written operational procedures, and execute operational and/or system/service performance checklists as outlined in written operational procedures
- Support troubleshooting of customer trouble tickets per written operational procedures
- Respond to Iridium alerts in a timely manner and initiate corrective actions to restore network services, and coordinate fault resolution with senior personnel and with vendor support
- Help your team to perform equipment installation, cable runs and server room maintenance in compliance with Iridium’s Data Center Standards and Procedures policy
- Escalate non-standard events to on-call Engineer and/or Management
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time by management
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:
Gain experience in software development and maintenance for the following areas:
- Iridium Ground Control Software and supporting applications.
- Iridium Satellite Data Products packaging applications.
Additionally, assist and gain knowledge within the larger development team to support all areas of software development within the Satellite Operations and Ground Development teams
What You’ll Do:
- Develop optimized code for both scalability and performance.
- Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for SW development (Atlassian tool suite desired)
- Update issue/feature data in Atlassian Project/Software tracking tools
- Effectively communicate to all team members, through briefings and documentation, planned implementation, or issue resolutions
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 with a team using Agile methodology
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Strong organizational, customer service, and project management skills
- 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
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 is searching for a talented and motivated intern to join their System Performance and Analysis team as a Data Engineer Intern. In this role, you will contribute to data processing, reporting, and analysis. You will learn and help develop tools and techniques such as predictive analytics and machine learning to understand the performance characteristics of the Iridium constellation. Strong communication skills and customer service orientation are essential for success in this team-driven environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Participate in the daily stand-up describing current work as described by Jira tickets
- Collaborate with senior engineers and other members of the team, including managers, to research and help solve important technical problems in data intensive operations related to system performance of the Iridium constellation
- Collaborate in Machine Learning and predictive analytics
- Develop new features for existing data pipelines
Skills You’ll Obtain:
- An understanding of low level data about the constellation performance (ground, space vehicles, gateways, etc.)
- Technical collaboration with the immediate team as well as external teams in the form of documentation, code, presentations, and daily interactions
- Coding & software development in a professional, production, environment
- Applied analytics & machine learning
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Practical knowledge of at least one programming language: Python, Java, etc.
- An interest on Satellite Constellations and associated services
- An interest on data intensive applications, data analysis and machine learning