AI for Space is Loft's newest business unit. We are building the Loft Mission Store: an open platform where AI companies publish their models, satellite operators deploy them to orbit, and the whole system produces structured intelligence instead of raw imagery. The team is small, the ambition is large, and the satellites are real.
This is the most senior technical hire on the AI for Space team. You own the technical strategy and execution for the AI Marketplace and Loft Labs ML tooling. You define what gets built and how, bridge the gap between research (Loft Labs) and production (implementation engineers), and set the technical bar for every AI service that ships on the platform. You report to the General Manager, AI for Space, and work closely with the broader Loft engineering, Solutions and Architecture (CTO platform) organization to ensure AI services integrate cleanly with Cockpit (the satellite operations platform) and the partner ecosystem. A critical part of this role is defining clear boundaries between what the AI team builds (marketplace-specific, ML-specific capabilities) and what lives in existing platform teams.