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title: 'Founding Engineer at Constellation Space'
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# Founding Engineer at Constellation Space

- **Company:** Constellation Space
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Compensation:** $120k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-04-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/constellationspace/c32309ae-2956-454a-807e-adb6966f08e0

## Job description

## The Role

Constellation builds ConstellationOS, an intelligence and forecasting layer for satellite and ground-network operations. We are looking for a Founding Engineer to build the platform and ship the models that run on it. You will work directly with the founders and own large parts of the system end to end: services, infrastructure, security, simulation, and the path from research model to production. This is an early seat with real equity and real say in what we build.

## Responsibilities

- Design and build the core platform: backend services, data pipelines for telemetry and forecasts, and the APIs customers integrate with.
- Own infrastructure and security, including commercial cloud, GovCloud, and on-prem deployments, CI/CD, and security requirements.
- Decide system architecture as the product grows, and write down the decisions.
- Take research models from the science team into production: serving, monitoring, evaluation against physics baselines.
- Build developer tools and simulation environments the whole team uses.
- Work with customers and government partners on pilots and integrations when engineering input is needed.

## Requirements

- 3+ years building and running production software, or equivalent depth. Prior machine learning engineering experience strongly preferred.
- Strong in Python plus at least one of Go, C++, or Rust. Solid on SQL, containers, and cloud infrastructure (Docker, Terraform).
- Has owned a system from design through production, ideally in an early-stage team.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, wide scope, and shipping without much process.
- U.S. person required (ITAR).

## About Constellation Space

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Constellation Space builds an AI-powered operating system (ConstellationOS) that autonomously manages and orchestrates satellite networks, predicting failures and rerouting traffic in under two seconds.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – $6.5M round announced March 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Kamran Majid (CEO), Laith Altarabishi, Raaid Kabir, Omeed Tehrani

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Space technology, satellite communications, defense, aerospace
- **Target customers**: Commercial fleet operators, government programs, and ground teams managing multi-vendor constellations (B2B, Government)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build the critical autonomous infrastructure required to operate next-generation satellite networks at scale.

## Products & Services
- **ConstellationOS**: An AI-driven orchestration layer that ingests telemetry from satellites, ground stations, and weather systems (100,000+ messages/sec), predicts link degradation using physics-informed ML models, and autonomously executes reroutes, handoffs, and load balancing—all under strict operator policy. Type: SaaS / API platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $6.5M (oversubscribed Seed round closed March 2026); earlier $125K grant from Toloka.vc
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2026 batch), Standard Capital, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Samsung NEXT, Fellows Fund, Founders Future
- **Growth Signals**: Currently in design partner phase with commercial and government operators; team of 4 founders with prior experience at SpaceX, Blue Origin, and NASA; actively hiring (Head of Operations, Principal Wireless Engineer, Graduate/PhD Research Intern ML)

## Competitive Advantages
- **ML-native predictive accuracy** of 90%+ for link failures, providing a 5-minute early warning window.
- **Autonomous action** (reroute, handoff, load balance) in under 2 seconds with zero human intervention.
- **Sub-second optical routing** and predictive thermal load-balancing.
- **Founding team’s deep domain expertise** from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and NASA.
- **ITAR-compliant and air-gapped deployment** options for government and defense clients.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding design partner relationships with commercial and government satellite operators; scaling ConstellationOS from pilot to production; hiring key engineering and operations talent to support growth.
- **Direction for growth**: Becoming the standard operating system for mega-scale satellite networks (10,000+ satellites) and eventually for off-world telecommunications and compute.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Early-stage startup with a small, highly experienced founding team tackling infrastructure problems that directly impact space operations. Emphasis on autonomy, ownership, and solving hard technical challenges.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Headquarters in Seattle, WA; likely hybrid or in-office given the nature of space systems work (not explicitly stated).
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Backed by top-tier VCs (YC, NVIDIA, OpenAI); opportunity to work on mission-critical AI/ML and network orchestration for the space industry; deep technical challenges in ML, distributed systems, and real-time control.

## Sources
1. [constellation.space (Company)](https://constellation.space/company)
2. [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/constellation-space)
3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/constellationspace)
4. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/constellationspace)

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