From requirements to flight.
The SI-P1 design and build, the host interface and integration, and the qualification campaign: radiation, thermal vacuum, vibration and EMC. Supplier and test-lab selection with the founder.
Satellite InferenceAI Inference in OrbitGet in touch CAREERS / FOUNDING TEAM
Build the first mission.
Define what follows.
We are an early-stage company building software and flight hardware for AI inference in orbit. Our fractional CTO, Dr Rajan Bedi, leads payload architecture, radiation risk and qualification planning part-time. The first full-time hire is a technical cofounder who has flown hardware and wants to build solar-powered compute in orbit.
01 / OPEN ROLE
Technical cofounder
You will lead engineering full-time: SI Runtime with the founder, the SI-P1 Thor-class pathfinder, and the technical path from a hosted payload to Node-1, a 10–20 kW solar compute spacecraft, and the 100 kW nodes of later clusters, working with our fractional CTO on architecture, radiation and qualification.
Hardware you have flown.
You have taken a spacecraft payload or avionics system through integration, qualification and flight, with depth in avionics, flight software, power or thermal design. Embedded GPU or ML experience is a plus.
A cofounder's role.
Cofounder-level equity with standard four-year vesting in Satellite Inference Inc., which will be formed before the program starts (today we operate through RFID Inc.), and a 13-month engineering plan. You hire the first engineers and choose the tools. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area; remote work is possible at the start, with travel for integration and tests.
How to apply
Email bekzad@satelliteinference.com with a short note on a system you took to flight and what you would change about our first mission. A CV or profile link is enough to start. Some work may be subject to US export controls.
02 / HIRING PLAN
The first team.
- M1
Fractional CTO, part-time
Payload architecture, radiation risk, qualification planning and technical review.
- M1–4
Technical cofounder full-time
Requirements, host interface and supplier quotations for SI-P1.
- M4
Flight-software engineer
SI Runtime on representative hardware and the Orbit-0 experiment.
- AS NEEDED
Specialist contractors
Avionics, thermal, radiation and machine learning, under IP-assignment agreements.
Hiring plans may change. Timings are in months from the program start.