Remote Sensing / Signal Processing Software Engineer
$135k - $145k+ Stock options + 401(k) match
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Remote in USA
RemoteRemote workforce across the United States; occasional nights and weekends may be required.
Software Engineering
About the job
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional experience in software engineering, algorithm development, signal processing, remote sensing, systems engineering, or a closely related field.
- A bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals.
- Professional experience developing software using Python.
- Experience designing, developing, and integrating software systems rather than solely performing analysis or research.
- Experience working with remote-sensing, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), radio frequency (RF), or other signal-derived data.
- Understanding of signal-processing concepts and their application to real-world sensor systems.
- Ability to understand complex systems and the relationships between individual components.
- Experience contributing to software or systems architecture and technical design.
- Ability to work effectively across multiple technical disciplines and translate between software, algorithms, data, and systems engineering teams.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, and maintain software supporting remote-sensing and signal-processing applications.
- Develop software and algorithms for processing, transforming, analyzing, and exploiting complex sensor and geospatial data.
- Apply computer science and software engineering principles to technically complex problems.
- Develop and maintain applications and data-processing pipelines using Python and other appropriate programming languages.
- Contribute to full-stack software development, including backend services, data processing, orchestration, and application programming interfaces (APIs), as applicable.
- Translate remote-sensing and signal-processing requirements into scalable software architectures and technical solutions.
- Work across systems to understand how sensors, SAR, RF/radar systems, signal processing, algorithms, data pipelines, software, and applications interact.
- Participate in system architecture, technical design, integration, and implementation activities.
- Develop and integrate algorithms for processing and exploiting remote-sensing and other sensor-derived data.
- Work with large, complex, and potentially heterogeneous datasets.
- Support the development of automated workflows and orchestration systems for data and algorithm processing.
- Collaborate with systems engineers, analysts, data scientists, software engineers, and domain experts.
- Participate in technical planning and contribute to project-level architecture and engineering decisions.
- Contribute to testing, debugging, performance optimization, and deployment.
- Document software architecture, technical designs, interfaces, and engineering decisions.
- Provide technical leadership on projects and workstreams.
- Work occasional nights and weekends when required by company needs.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and/or Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) data.
- Experience working with SAR, RF, radar, electromagnetic, or other sensor modalities.
- Experience with geospatial data, remote sensing, imagery, or Earth-observation systems.
- Experience developing signal-processing or sensor-data algorithms.
- Experience with distributed data-processing systems or workflow orchestration.
- Experience with cloud-based software architectures and services.
- Experience developing APIs, backend services, or full-stack applications.
- Experience with containerization, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), automated testing, and modern software-development practices.
- Experience working with large-scale or high-volume sensor datasets.
- Systems engineering experience.
- Experience leading technical projects, workstreams, or multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Experience serving as a technical lead or technical project manager.
- Experience working in the defense, intelligence, aerospace, or national-security sectors.
- Experience with government or Department of Defense (DoD) programs.
About the company
Ursa Space Systems provides on-demand satellite intelligence and geospatial analytics to business and government decision-makers. Its platform leverages the world’s largest network of radar satellites to offer access to a catalog of over 50 million Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images and automated change detection, turning complex satellite data into actionable insights. Customers in energy, finance, and insurance use these analytics-as-a-service solutions to monitor environments, detect events, and support decision-making. Unlike many competitors, Ursa Space emphasizes rapid access to SAR imagery and automated, scalable change detection through its platform, enabling clients to obtain timely situational awareness. The company’s goal is to translate satellite data into clear, usable intelligence that informs strategic and operational decisions.”} /* end */ }```,
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$71.2M
Headquarters
Ithaca, New York
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Ursa raised $27.9 million equity in July 2026, extending runway.
- NGA awarded Ursa $21 million TrueSight and $13.8 million Global Awareness Tracker in 2025.
- Aireon integration in May 2025 broadened Ursa’s aircraft-tracking and geospatial product stack.
What critics are saying
- Only two unknown investors bought July 2026 equity, signaling limited fundraising transparency.
- Palantir, Maxar, and BlackSky crowd NGA, squeezing Ursa’s follow-on task-order share.
- Commercial SAR data commoditization collapses Ursa’s margins and forces acquisition.
What makes Ursa Space Systems unique
- Ursa’s virtual constellation spans 70+ commercial satellites, avoiding owned-constellation capex.
- NEC and Sumitomo expanded Ursa into Japan in 2025.
- NGA selected Ursa for Luno B and $13.8 million Global Oil Awareness Tracker.
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Benefits
- Flexible Work Hours
- Stock Options
- 401(k) Company Match
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Remote Work Options
- Paid Holidays
- Professional Development Budget