Sr. Data Scientist, Project Kuiper Global Planning, Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper Job Opportunity

Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (leo). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

Do you get excited by aerospace, space exploration, and/or satellites? Do you want to help build solutions at Project Kuiper to transform the space industry? If so, then we would love to talk!

Key Job Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with product, business development, and various technical teams (engineering, science, simulations, etc.) to execute on the long-term vision, strategy, and architecture for the science-based global demand forecast.
• Design and deliver modern, flexible, scalable solutions to integrate data from a variety of sources and systems, increasing forecast accuracy over time.
• Work closely with the capacity planning science team to ensure that demand forecasts feed seamlessly into their systems to deliver continuous optimization of resources.
• Lead short and long terms technical roadmap definition efforts to deliver solutions that meet business needs in pre-launch, early-launch, and mature business phases.
• Synthesize and communicate insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication to drive change across Kuiper.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current green card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

About the team: The Kuiper Global Demand Planning team's mission is to map customer demand across space and time. We enable Kuiper's long-term success by delivering actionable insights and scientific forecasts across geographies and customer segments to empower long range planning, capacity simulations, business strategy, and hardware manufacturing recommendations through scalable tools and durable mechanisms.