LEO satellite constellation for precise GNSS positioning services
Xona is building a low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation to deliver precise positioning, with a stack spanning MATLAB/Simulink, STK, FreeFlyer, Altium Designer and Ansys HFSS alongside cloud tooling on AWS, Azure and GCP. Adoption of FPGA and HSM tech plus pain points around on-orbit operations and collision avoidance signal a shift from spacecraft build-out to running a live constellation, while a CFO search and ERP rollout point to finance maturing.
Notable leadership hires: Chief Financial Officer
Xona is a privately held space company headquartered in Burlingame, California, with 51–200 employees. It develops a next-generation GNSS system based on a LEO satellite constellation intended to provide high-precision positioning to devices globally. Work spans constellation architecture, satellite assembly and integration, attitude determination and control, electric propulsion, and orbit determination pipelines. Hiring is concentrated in engineering, with smaller manufacturing, product and logistics functions, across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Xona uses Python, C++, MATLAB, Simulink, STK, FreeFlyer, Apache Pulsar, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Altium Designer and Ansys HFSS across AWS, Azure and GCP, and is adopting FPGA and HSM.
Xona is building a next-generation GNSS system, including constellation architecture design, satellite assembly and integration, orbit determination pipelines, an FPGA signal-processing pipeline and an ERP implementation.
Xona hires in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, mostly for mid and senior engineering roles, plus manufacturing, product, logistics and a Chief Financial Officer position.
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