Intermediate Software Engineer- Satellite Systems

For those who dream of advancing our space in the Universe and on Earth, we’ll take you there.

Serving the world from our Canadian home and our global offices, MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics & space operations, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. Today, we’re leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more.

We’re fueled by a pioneering spirit that carries us beyond. And together we enable highly skilled people to continually push boundaries and tackle big challenges requiring solutions that endure and inspire.

Are you ready to launch the next stage of your career in the new space economy? We would love to hear from you!

We’re on the hunt for an Intermediate Software Engineer in our Geointelligence Department at our Richmond office.

As a Software Engineer, you will join the team designing and building the Ground Segment services for the soon to be launched Canadian Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite that was announced here:

( https://mda.space/en/article/mda-announces-radarsat-2-continuity-mission/ ). Specifically, you will be working on the Data Chain Subsystem which provides services to reconstruct satellite data, to archive the imagery, and to process the imagery into products for applications that detect change, identify objects, classify events and examine trends to support marine surveillance, disaster management, mapping, agriculture, forestry, geology and more. You will be designing and implementing services to ingest and frame the raw imagery, to resample and correct the data and to generate and format the supported products.

Responsibilities:

• Work on assigned User Stories to design, implement and test services supporting the mission
• Plan, manage and monitor User Stories assigned to more junior developers
• Assigned duties may also include investigation, trade studies, prototyping, performance tuning, testing and documentation

Qualifications:

• Experience with DSP
• Experience with SAR processing
• Experience with NITF 2.1 / GeoTiff image data formats
• Experience with software development processes, microservices, CI/CD, automated testing
• Experience using Linux, C++, Go, Python, AWS, JIRA, GitLab
• Team player with willingness to learn and desire to contribute

We’re a dream team of purpose-driven, collaborative and passionate people, and we are constantly looking for others to join #TeamMDA to ignite new and innovative approaches to problem-solving that push us forward to improve life on and above Earth. If you’re excited to expand our place in space and driven to inspire the next generation, we’ll take you there.

We have entered a new era of exploration and development, and MDA welcomes all who yearn to suit up and be part of it. An equal opportunity employer prizing diversity, integrity and collaboration, we are committed to growing MDA’s and Canada’s leadership in this next golden age.

MDA is an equal opportunity employer prizing diversity and inclusion. We are committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity. If you require assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please feel free to notify us.

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