Space and defense prime building satellites and mission-critical systems
York Space Systems is a public U.S. defense contractor designing and operating satellites for government and commercial customers. The engineering-heavy hiring mix (42 engineers across embedded systems, test, and integration) paired with active projects spanning mission planning, constellation networks, and hardware-in-the-loop testbeds reveals a company scaling production and operations in parallel. Pain points around cross-satellite network maintenance, collision avoidance, and operation center failover signal complexity in multi-asset mission orchestration.
York Space Systems provides space and defense solutions to U.S. national security, government, and commercial buyers. The company designs embedded systems and satellites, manages mission planning and launch support, and operates constellation-level networks. Core work includes spacecraft design (Solidworks), embedded software (C, C++, Linux), simulation and test automation (MATLAB, Simulink, STK), and hardware-in-the-loop integration across flat-sat, educational, and constellation testbeds. As a public company, York operates under government contracting compliance and proposal-driven revenue cycles.
York uses embedded systems tools (Linux, C, C++, Python, MATLAB, Simulink, STK), infrastructure (GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Oracle Fusion Cloud), and aerospace simulation software (Thermal Desktop, Solidworks, Hardware-in-the-Loop systems, GNSS).
Active projects include an embedded software platform for space applications, mission planning for a PWSA constellation, constellation-level network design and integration, and simulation and test automation products across multiple testbed environments.
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