Radiometric Calibration Software Engineer

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Vantor is currently seeking a Software Engineer to join the Radiometric Calibration, Assessment, and Monitoring (RadCAM) team in Longmont, CO. The RadCAM team is responsible for the relative and absolute radiometric calibration, assessment, and monitoring of Vantor's constellation. The team also performs radiometric analysis on Vantor's products and supports community outreach in the radiometric field.

In this role, you will:

• Support the RadCAM team's software workflows within the overall Vantor software development environment.
• Perform service design and architecture, and perform service reliability monitoring on existing systems.
• Develop and test software that integrates with the existing ground system through the Vantor continuous integration/continuous deployment pipeline.
• Collaborate with RadCAM's Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to commission future sensors and enhance the current capacity of Vantor's radiometric calibration operations.
• Provide an interface between RadCAM team and the greater Vantor software development teams and assist in guiding RadCAM team's adoption of software best practices.
• Design/develop new services and feature improvements to existing services.
• Collaborate with other software engineers on design/development efforts.
• Resolve software service defects as they are identified.
• Provide architectural and design advice on the future direction of a cloud-based distributed tech stack.
• Develop automated unit, integration, and functional tests.
• Monitor the reliability of services.
• Troubleshoot operational issues.
• Provide software design and technical support to members of the RadCAM team.
• Support deadlines and communicate issues/results.
• Participate in Communities of Practice for adherence and improvement of best practices.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, aerospace engineering, or related field
• Two additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
• Minimum 5 years of software development of complex software systems
• Strong verbal and written communication, organization, and leadership skills
• Expertise in Python
• Experience with SOA/REST/JSON/AWS
• Experience with supporting developed code in a pipeline deployment workflow
• Experience in using Linux and developing applications that run on Linux
• Experience with operational support of an AWS Cloud Infrastructure
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Willing and able to obtain U.S. Government Secret security clearance
• Experience with Aerospace and/or Satellite Ground Systems
• Experience with imaging processing
• Experience with test automation languages/frameworks: Pytest with extensive mocking
• Experience working in an Agile process
• Experience with ops support of a complex Linux-based system
• Experience with PostgreSQL

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Benefits: Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at:https://www.Vantor.com/careers

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