Market evidence report — satellite-engineer

Source: 55 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 55), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-19. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

Seniority distribution

Seniority	Ads	Share
mid	38	69 %
senior	12	22 %
n/a	2	4 %
lead	2	4 %
junior	1	2 %

Tools — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	Python	13	24 %
2	C++	9	16 %
3	MATLAB	9	16 %
4	Linux	4	7 %
5	Microsoft Office	4	7 %
6	Git	3	5 %
7	SharePoint	3	5 %
8	STK	3	5 %
9	VMware	3	5 %

Hard skills — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	systems engineering	10	18 %
2	algorithm development	8	15 %
3	mission planning	7	13 %
4	software development	7	13 %
5	system integration	6	11 %
6	anomaly resolution	5	9 %
7	data analysis	5	9 %
8	link budget analysis	4	7 %
9	requirements analysis	4	7 %
10	constellation design	3	5 %
11	control theory	3	5 %
12	rf engineering	3	5 %
13	risk assessment	3	5 %
14	satellite operations	3	5 %
15	simulation	3	5 %
16	spacecraft operations	3	5 %
17	system architecture development	3	5 %
18	system design	3	5 %
19	systems integration	3	5 %
20	technical assessment	3	5 %
21	telemetry analysis	3	5 %
22	testing	3	5 %
23	troubleshooting	3	5 %

Methods — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	ci/cd pipelines	3	5 %
2	continuous integration	3	5 %
3	design review	3	5 %
4	DevSecOps	3	5 %

Responsibilities — full market ranking

#	Item	Ads	Share
1	system design	5	9 %
2	algorithm development	4	7 %
3	anomaly investigation	3	5 %
4	anomaly resolution	3	5 %
5	documentation creation	3	5 %
6	procedure development	3	5 %
7	software development	3	5 %
8	system architecture development	3	5 %
9	technical leadership	3	5 %
10	testing	3	5 %
11	troubleshooting	3	5 %

Regional breakdown

Corpus note: 55 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

US (us)

55 ads.

Top hard skills:

systems engineering — 18 % (10 ads)
algorithm development — 15 % (8 ads)
mission planning — 13 % (7 ads)
software development — 13 % (7 ads)
system integration — 11 % (6 ads)
anomaly resolution — 9 % (5 ads)
data analysis — 9 % (5 ads)
link budget analysis — 7 % (4 ads)
requirements analysis — 7 % (4 ads)
constellation design — 5 % (3 ads)

Top tools:

Python — 24 % (13 ads)
C++ — 16 % (9 ads)
MATLAB — 16 % (9 ads)
Linux — 7 % (4 ads)
Microsoft Office — 7 % (4 ads)
Git — 5 % (3 ads)
SharePoint — 5 % (3 ads)
STK — 5 % (3 ads)
VMware — 5 % (3 ads)
acas — 4 % (2 ads)

Seniority: mid 69 % · senior 22 % · n/a 4 % · lead 4 % · junior 2 %

UK (gb)

Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)