B612 Foundation careers

We are building the first open, extensible, cloud-based solar system mapping platform. The Asteroid Decision Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform is used to model and analyze asteroid orbits and to study candidate space missions including commercial, scientific and deflection missions. ADAM’s orbit propagation and astrodynamics algorithms are hosted on the Google Cloud Services Platform, which enables many parallel computations. Researchers use ADAM to run orbit analyses at large scale to build a statistical understanding of the future locations and trajectories of asteroids. Since many thousands of cases may be run at a time, there are challenges in how jobs are spread out, how progress is monitored, and how the results are combined to form meaningful information. We are looking for a lead software developer who can help us build the computational systems to carry out these calculations, make the data useful and accessible, and allow users to interface with the system via an API.