Software Engineer I, Data Science (New Grad)

You’ll turn spacecraft data into actionable insights across manufacturing and operations: building dashboards that surface production bottlenecks and on-orbit anomalies, analyzing test failures and mission telemetry to identify root causes, training predictive models that flag at-risk components before integration and detect spacecraft health degradation during missions, and mining telemetry to catch anomalies operators would miss. Your work spans the full spacecraft lifecycle. Pre-launch, you’ll analyze manufacturing telemetry, test logs, failure reports, and supplier data to catch problems before integration. Post-launch, you’ll monitor on-orbit telemetry streams, detect anomalies in spacecraft health data, analyze mission performance, and flag degradation patterns that predict future failures. This is entry-level data science work supporting hardware production and spacecraft operations. You’ll write SQL queries, build predictive models in Python, create operational dashboards, and see your analysis drive decisions on the manufacturing floor and in mission control.

This is a 3 month temporary employment engagement. There is potential to convert to regular employment based on performance and business need., * Perform exploratory data analysis on manufacturing telemetry, test logs, mission data, and on-orbit spacecraft health telemetry to identify patterns and surface anomalies

• Build operational dashboards in Grafana or Plotly Dash showing real-time production status, spacecraft health metrics, mission performance, and anomaly alerts
• Train basic predictive models (logistic regression, random forests) to flag at-risk components during manufacturing and predict spacecraft health degradation during missions
• Write SQL queries to extract, join, and aggregate data from manufacturing databases, test systems, mission telemetry streams, and spacecraft health archives
• Analyze test failures and on-orbit anomalies to identify common failure modes, cluster similar issues, and quantify impact on schedule and mission success
• Create data visualizations (matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly) that communicate findings to engineers, manufacturing leads, mission operators, and program managers
• Implement statistical process control charts to detect out-of-spec conditions in manufacturing processes and spacecraft telemetry before they cascade
• Monitor on-orbit telemetry streams for anomalies: battery voltage trends, thermal behavior, attitude control health, communications link quality
• Document analysis methodology in Jupyter notebooks enabling reproducibility and knowledge transfer across manufacturing and operations teams
• Learn reliability engineering and mission operations concepts: failure modes, burn-in testing, on-orbit commissioning, spacecraft health monitoring, and anomaly response procedures

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in data science, statistics, industrial engineering, applied mathematics, operations research, or related quantitative field
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis: pandas, numpy, matplotlib, seaborn
• Working knowledge of SQL for querying relational databases: SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY, aggregation functions
• Coursework in statistics: hypothesis testing, regression, probability distributions, experimental design
• Ability to create clear visualizations that communicate insights to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong curiosity about how things fail and how data can predict failures before they happen
• Debugging mindset: when the model gives wrong answers or the query returns unexpected results, you dig in to find out why
• Eagerness to learn manufacturing, operations, and reliability engineering domains where data drives real decisions
• U.S. Citizen (required for facility access and government contracts)

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience with machine learning in Python: scikit-learn for classification/regression, model validation, train/test splits, cross-validation
• Familiarity with time-series analysis: plotting sensor trends, detecting change points, smoothing noisy signals
• Exposure to data visualization tools: Grafana, Tableau, Plotly Dash, or similar dashboard frameworks
• Understanding of basic reliability concepts: failure rates, survival curves, mean time between failures (MTBF)
• Prior internship or project analyzing real-world operational data: manufacturing, logistics, quality control, IoT sensor data
• Experience with version control (git) and collaborative data analysis workflows
• Coursework or projects in industrial engineering, operations research, or quality management
• Familiarity with data cleaning and wrangling: handling missing values, outlier detection, data quality assessment
• Understanding of experimental design: A/B testing, randomized controlled trials, confounding variables
• Exposure to anomaly detection techniques: z-scores, control charts, boxplot analysis
• Prior work with manufacturing or hardware production data (even from coursework or academic projects)
• Familiarity with Jupyter notebooks, literate programming, and reproducible analysis practices

• Base Salary: Denver: $75,000; Long Beach: $80,000