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# General Application for Privateer Space / Orbital Insight at Orbital Insight

- **Company:** Orbital Insight
- **Location:** United States
- **Posted:** 2024-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/privateer/jobs/4252825008

## Job description

## About Privateer 🌴👩🏻‍🚀🌴 and Orbital Insight 🛰️🌎📈💡

Founded by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, tech entrepreneur Alex Fielding, and UT Austin Professor Dr. Moriba Jah, Privateer is pioneering a satellite sharing economy to ensure a sustainable future in space.

Our Wayfinder platform helps satellite operators safely navigate increasingly crowded orbital highways, while our TerraScope application (part of our recent acquisition of Earth analytics leader Orbital Insight) utilizes advanced AI modeling to expand access to Earth observations from space.

Together, these technologies aim to eliminate redundant hardware in orbit, enhance satellite safety, and promote efficient use of space resources.

About the Role 👩‍💼🧑‍💼👨‍💼

We believe that great talent is always welcome, which is why we invite you to submit your resume, even if we don’t have an active opening that matches your experience. We’d love to learn more about you and how you could contribute to our mission. Your skills and passion may be the perfect fit for future opportunities.

Successful Candidates 👩‍🚀🧑‍🚀👨‍🚀

First and foremost, successful candidates will be a fit for our unique culture. From our founders and executives down through the entire organization, we are passionate about our work and about having fun doing it.

When we’re looking for new members of our crew, we’re looking for these qualities (in no particular order):

- Resourceful
- Analytical
- Humble
- Proactive
- Collaborative
- Opinionated
- Respectful
- Diligent
- Optimistic
- Realistic
- Honest
- Open-minded
- Enthusiastic
- Empathetic
- Driven
- Intelligent

## About Orbital Insight

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Orbital Insight is a geospatial analytics company that analyzes satellite, drone, and other aerial imagery combined with AI to provide business and strategic insights, now operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Privateer Space, Inc.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by Privateer Space, Inc. in May 2024; prior to acquisition, it was a venture-backed private company)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States (also operates offices in New York, NY; Arlington, VA; and has presence in Brazil, Japan, and Indonesia)
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: James Crawford

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Geospatial Analytics, Defense & Intelligence, Commercial Satellite Imagery, AI/ML Data Processing
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, Government (Defense & Civil), Commercial sectors (Insurance, Energy, Finance, Supply Chain, Agriculture)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To empower problem-solvers by providing unprecedented access to tools that help them understand the present and anticipate the future.

## Products & Services
- **Elements Platform**: An all-domain data fusion platform that delivers AI-powered insights across land, sea, air, space, and cyber. Integrates satellite, terrestrial, and customer data streams for applications including traffic monitoring, supply chain analysis, pattern-of-life monitoring, vessel tracking, GNSS interference detection, and space domain awareness. Available via UI, APIs, and microservices.
- **Taskable Satellite Network**: A capability to task satellite imagery collection over specific areas of interest.
- **AI-Driven Data Fusion & Analytics**: Raw imagery and sensing data undergoes rapid AI/ML processing, then flows into Elements for fusion and analysis, producing actionable intelligence for defense, civil, and commercial use.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company). Prior to acquisition, Orbital Insight had raised a total of $130.2M in funding. Privateer itself raised $56.5M in a round concurrent with the acquisition in May 2024.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue estimated at $30.0M (as of latest available data); Total Funding raised: $130.2M.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (lead investor in multiple rounds), Google Ventures (GV), Lux Capital, Clearvision Ventures. In April 2025, Taiwan’s Far Eastern Group (FEG) became a strategic investor in Privateer. Partners include OMEGA SA (for space sustainability).
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired by Privateer Space in May 2024, backed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Privateer). Privateer has indicated it is eyeing further acquisitions (CEO statement, June 2025). Won a contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for maritime surveillance in the Indo-Pacific region (July 2024). Both product demos marked Awardable by the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace (June 2025). Recognized as a Best Tech Startup in Hawai‘i for 2025.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding pedigree & talent**: Built by a team of engineers, scientists, and strategists with deep expertise in aerospace, AI, and orbital mechanics. Co-founder Steve Wozniak brings significant brand and credibility.
- **Unique data integration**: Aggregates data from "sea to space" — satellite, terrestrial, and customer data — in a single platform (Elements).
- **AI/ML at core**: Raw imagery undergoes rapid AI/ML processing, enabling automated, real-time insights rather than manual analysis.
- **First-mover in commercial geospatial analytics**: One of the earliest companies to commercialize satellite imagery analytics at scale.
- **Defense & intelligence credibility**: Secured NGA contracts and recognition from the U.S. Department of Defense, providing a high barrier to entry for competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth through acquisition**: Privateer CEO has stated the company is actively pursuing further acquisitions to expand capabilities.
- **Expanding into new verticals**: Targeting insurance, energy, finance, and sustainability markets with tailored geospatial intelligence products.
- **Defense & government contracts**: Continued focus on winning U.S. government and allied nation contracts for maritime, border, and infrastructure monitoring.
- **Space sustainability**: Partnership with OMEGA SA and focus on space domain awareness (tracking debris, GNSS interference) as a growing priority.
- **International expansion**: Presence in Brazil, Japan, and Indonesia; recent strategic investment from Taiwan’s Far Eastern Group signals Asia-Pacific growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a team of engineers, scientists, and strategists committed to answering tough questions impacting life on the planet. Employee reviews on LinkedIn rate culture 4.8/5.0, compensation 4.7/5.0, and work-life balance 4.8/5.0 (based on 47 reviews).
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Hybrid working model. Roles listed include "Washington, DC Area - Hybrid" for cleared positions. Headquarters in Palo Alto, CA with offices in New York, NY and Arlington, VA.
- **Notable perks & engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on AI/ML, cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, gRPC, Terraform, Python, React, Mapbox, ESRI). Tech stack includes modern DevOps practices and microservices architecture. High concentration of talent from Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Planet. Engineering-centric environment with opportunities to work on cutting-edge space and AI problems.
- **Growth trajectory**: Post-acquisition, the combined entity (Privateer + Orbital Insight) is well-funded and actively hiring, with a clear mandate to scale. The company is in a growth phase with recent contract wins and new strategic investors.
- **Mission-driven**: Work has direct impact on national security, environmental monitoring, and space sustainability — appealing to those seeking purpose-driven work.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn - Orbital Insight Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/orbital-insight-inc-)
2. [Privateer.com - Company Page](https://www.privateer.com/company)
3. [Privateer.com - Home Page](https://www.privateer.com/)
4. [Privateer.com - Careers Page](https://www.privateer.com/careers)
5. [Greenhouse - Jobs at Orbital Insight / Privateer](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/privateer)
6. [SpaceNews - Privateer acquires Orbital Insight (May 2024)](https://spacenews.com/privateer-acquires-orbital-insight/)
7. [SpaceNews - Orbital Insight wins NGA contract (July 2024)](https://spacenews.com/orbital-insight-wins-nga-contract-for-maritime-surveillance-in-indo-pacific-region/)
8. [ION Analytics - Privateer eyeing further acquisitions (June 2025)](https://ionanalytics.com/privateer-eyeing-further-acquisitions-ceo/)
9. [LinkedIn - Privateer update: Far Eastern Group strategic investment (April 2025)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/orbital-insight-inc-/posts/)

## Other roles at Orbital Insight

- [Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Cleared](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-devsecops-engineer-cleared-orbital-insight-washington-8sneg2y6vgxh) — Washington, DC