AVAILABLE POSITIONS

Permanent

The role will involve:

• Mechanical design of ground-based optical systems

• Assisting requirements gathering for opto-mechanical systems

• Responsible for prototyping and testing of mechanical components

• Liaising with manufacturers and suppliers

• Feeding in to broader system design

Person specification

Essential

• Degree in Mechanical engineering, Physics, Optics, or similar

• Demonstrated experience with mechanical design for optical systems

• Experience with rapid prototyping manufacturing techniques

• Strong user of CAD software (e.g. SolidWorks)

• Strong teamwork and communication skills

Desirable

• PhD in Astronomy/Optics/Physics

• Experience with various types of optical systems/components such as telescopes, cameras, lasers, LIDAR, lenses, mirrors is highly desirable

• Experienced user of optical design software such as Zemax OpticStudio is desired but not essential

• Experience working with institutional customers and academic partners

Permanent

The role will involve:

• Precisely modelling the orbits of satellites and space debris from a range of data sources

• Simulation and analysis of time-domain data series

• Building robust databases (relational and transactional)

• Data fusion and uncertainty modeling (potentially including Gaussian processes)

• Robust data analysis pipeline development

• Front end development - data visualisation and UI/UX

• API tools for scraping, gathering and also for presenting data

Person specification

Essential

• Degree in Physics, Maths, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or similar

• Demonstrated experience with astrodynamics, orbit prediction and modeling, visualisation and shared codebase development

• Strong user of Python, Git, SQL, relational databases or equivalent alternative technology stacks

• Strong background in classical mechanics, astrodynamics, mathematical and computational modeling, optimisation or software engineering

• Strong teamwork and communication skills

Desirable

• PhD in relevant field

• Experience working with institutional customers and academic partners

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At Lumi, we are developing space lasers to make the satellite industry more sustainable. We're looking for engineers that bring creative, alternative methods that aren't always used but that bring objective advantages.