Location:

Ottawa, Ontario (Hybrid / Remote-First with periodic work at the Ottawa facility) Position Type:

Full-Time Compensation:

Salary & Stock Options Benefits:

Comprehensive Health & Dental package, starting 3 weeks paid annual leave Contact:

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About Obruta Founded in 2019, Obruta Space Solutions is enabling the in-space economy by developing the advanced autonomy systems required for in-orbit satellite servicing, logistics, and active debris removal. Today’s satellites are single-use assets that cannot be refueled, inspected, or repaired. Obruta is eliminating this barrier with our flagship product: the

RPOD Kit

—a turnkey, vision-guided Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) subsystem that makes autonomous spacecraft docking commonplace.

Backed by leading venture capital and top-tier space innovation programs, Obruta is executing cutting-edge perception and navigation projects with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), National Research Council (NRC), and international commercial partners.

The Role Obruta is seeking an experienced

Senior FDIR & Spacecraft Autonomy Engineer

to lead the architecture, design, and implementation of our Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) and Mission & Vehicle Management (MVM) framework.

Historically, Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking (RPOD) missions have relied on human operators as the ultimate failsafe—a paradigm that cannot scale to the thousands of spacecraft requiring servicing and logistics. In this role, you will build the "onboard expert" that makes the RPOD Kit secure and fully autonomous. You will architect multi-level safety logic across software, hardware, and mission trajectory layers, deploy predictive diagnostics for subsystem degradation, and design autonomous, collision-free abort maneuvers that guarantee passive safety during high-stakes proximity operations.

Key Responsibilities

Hierarchical FDIR Architecture:

Design, implement,



and verify multi-level FDIR state machines spanning software-level (GNC algorithms), hardware-level (sensors, thrusters, flight compute), and mission-level (trajectory deviations, relative velocities) anomalies.

Predictive Anomaly Detection & Analytical Redundancy:

Develop AI-enabled and model-based diagnostic algorithms to detect "Grey Box" subsystem degradation (such as thruster efficiency loss or sensor drift) before catastrophic failure states occur.

Autonomous Collision Avoidance Maneuvers (CAM):

Architect failsafe trajectory generation logic that ensures immediate, autonomous retreat to a passively safe, collision-free orbit upon detecting unrecoverable off-nominal conditions.

Safety & Reliability Analysis:

Lead Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis, fault tree analyses, and safety boundary definitions across nominal and off-nominal RPOD mission phases.

Verification & Monte Carlo Stress Testing:

Design randomized fault-injection campaigns across millions of simulation runs and real-time Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL) dual-arm lab tests to achieve and validate a 99.99% autonomous mission success or safe-fail rate.

Host Spacecraft Integration:

Define standardized fault-management interfaces and telemetry flags between the RPOD Kit payload and third-party host spacecraft buses.

Management:

Ensuring team members and co-op students are effectively working towards the common goals of Obruta.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

4+ years of professional engineering experience

developing safety-critical autonomous systems, FDIR architectures, or state-machine logic in aerospace, robotics, or defence.

Demonstrated experience with

Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis

, Fault Tree Analysis, and hazard analysis for complex systems.

Strong programming proficiency in

C++

and/or

MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow

for real-time autonomous systems.

Deep understanding of spacecraft dynamics, GNC fundamentals, or auto

📌 FDIR & Spacecraft Autonomy Engineer (Ahuntsic)
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