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title: 'Research Scientist (PhD) at Constellation Space'
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# Research Scientist (PhD) at Constellation Space

- **Company:** Constellation Space
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$210k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/constellationspace/4b79bd50-b782-4e9b-83e1-78b28fd657e5

## Job description

## The Role

We are looking for a PhD-level Research Scientist to build the models behind ConstellationOS. You will develop forecasting and decision models for satellite link conditions and ground-network operations, and prove them against real data and physics-based baselines. Your work shows up in customer pilots and government evaluations.

## Responsibilities

- Develop and train machine learning models that forecast link conditions and support operational decisions.
- Own data acquisition and preprocessing for telemetry, weather, atmospheric, and RF datasets.
- Benchmark learned models against deterministic physics models and report results honestly, including failures.
- Do simulation research for GNC and RF systems.
- Work with academic groups and publish or present results
- Turn research into code the platform team can ship.

## Requirements

- Ph.D. (or near completion) in Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Publications or equivalent research output in forecasting, deep learning, reinforcement learning, or scientific ML.
- Strong Python and PyTorch or JAX. Able to write research code others can run.
- Experience with time-series, signal, or physical-system data is a plus.
- 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)

## Other roles at Constellation Space

- [Chief of Staff](https://feeny.ai/job/chief-of-staff-constellation-space-seattle-83s88k431m94) — Seattle, WA
- [Founding Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-engineer-constellation-space-seattle-46zhw74kx9ww) — Seattle, WA
- [Software Engineering Intern (Winter/Spring)](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineering-intern-winter-spring-constellation-space-seattle-hz3fkhxdkk8t) — Seattle, WA