Owned LEO satellite constellations with 5G NTN ground and payload systems
SpinLaunch, now operating under the Meridian Space domain, builds complete LEO satellite constellations that governments and commercial operators own outright. Its stack pairs RF tooling (HFSS, FEKO, Keysight, Spirent, STK) with cloud-native networking (Kubernetes, DPDK, SR-IOV, eBPF, O-RAN), which points to an in-house 5G non-terrestrial RAN rather than a pure hardware play. Hiring is engineering-only, accelerating, and skewed toward principal and senior talent.
SpinLaunch, which presents itself as Meridian Space, is a privately held space infrastructure company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Long Beach, California. It delivers turnkey, sovereign low Earth orbit constellations to government and commercial customers, covering satellite design, communications payloads, antennas and ground segment software. The company has 51–200 employees and recruits engineers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its technical work spans 5G non-terrestrial networking, RF and antenna engineering, FPGA-based hardware and ground system software.
SpinLaunch uses Python, C++, Go, Rust and Java alongside Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, DPDK, SR-IOV and eBPF. For RF work it relies on HFSS, FEKO, MATLAB, STK, Keysight and Spirent, and it builds against 3GPP 5G NTN and O-RAN standards.
Yes. Every current opening is in engineering, hiring is accelerating, and most roles sit at mid, senior or principal level. Open positions are in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Current work includes a 5G non-terrestrial network solution and RAN architecture, full-stack ground segment software, new antennas for LEO communications, and end-to-end communications payload architecture.
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