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How ICEYE hires

Truth index
A 88/100
Median time to fill
57 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
49%
Reposted roles
0%

ICEYE scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 35 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 49% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 57 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

ICEYE is a Finnish space company founded in 2014 that built the first synthetic aperture radar satellite small enough to be launched in large numbers, and it now operates the world's largest constellation of them. Because radar imaging works through cloud and at night, the constellation can observe a location reliably regardless of weather, which makes it valuable for flood monitoring, insurance loss assessment, maritime surveillance and defence intelligence. Headquartered in Espoo, the company both sells data and builds satellites for government customers who want their own sovereign radar capability.

News

News Via Satellite 24 days ago
Iceye-led ARISE Consortium to Conduct Space Intelligence Architecture Study for ESA
The Architecture for Resilient and Federated ISR in Sovereign Europe (ARISE), a European sovereign intelligence consortium led by Iceye, will conduct an
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News SpaceNews 27 days ago
Iceye's global presence expands to address sovereign demand
Iceye's global presence expands to address sovereign demand
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News AeroTime 1 month ago
ICEYE eyes Ariane 6 launches for European missions
ICEYE and Arianespace signed an MoU to explore Ariane 6 launches for European government missions as ICEYE expands satellite production.
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News tech.marksblogg.com 1 month ago
ICEYE's Open Satellite Feed
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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News beyondhorizonforesight.substack.com 3 months ago
ICEYE's SAR Constellation Is Quietly Becoming the Most Geopolitically Significant Commercial Space Asset
Commercial SAR isn't just another Earth observation play-it's the first technical answer to the verification problem that Cold War arms control treaties required but lacked.
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News iberdrola.com 4 months ago
Iberdrola: Celebrating 125 years together - Iberdrola
Iberdrola is an energy global leader in electrification and decarbonisation of the economy . Towards an electric future
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News iceyefi 4 months ago
Beyond the Echo - How satellites steer the radar beam
Shikha Sharma and Leszek Lamentowski reveal the technology behind ICEYE SAR satellite agility.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at ICEYE over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
157
Postings analysed
123
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python63%
Go17%
C++11%
TypeScript10%
Frameworks & libraries
GDAL5%
OpenTelemetry5%
PostGIS5%
NumPy4%
Databases
PostgreSQL13%
InfluxDB2%
Cloud & platforms
Linux27%
Kubernetes24%
AWS12%
Synopsys HAPS6%
AI & ML
LLM6%
Claude2%
ChatGPT2%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$117k
Typical range
$79k – $172k
Open positions
9
9 Jobs
Senior 66.7%
Staff 11.1%
Architect 22.2%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 6 $114k $79k – $138k
Staff 1 $145k $145k
Architect 2 $172k $172k
Highest paying role Mission Sales Director, Nordics $172k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at ICEYE By role, level and city, against the market · 9 jobs with pay

Products

Satellite Missions for Governments
Dedicated satellites built and operated on behalf of national customers who want their own capability. It gives governments sovereign control of tasking without having to build a space programme from scratch.
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Defence Intelligence
Persistent radar surveillance for defence and intelligence customers. Demand rose sharply after the war in Ukraine demonstrated what commercial radar imaging could contribute to operational awareness.
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Maritime Surveillance
Vessel detection and monitoring across large ocean areas, including ships that have disabled their transponders. Coastguards and defence customers use it for sanctions enforcement and illegal fishing detection.
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Flood and Natural Catastrophe Data
Rapid flood extent and depth mapping delivered to insurers and emergency agencies. Because radar sees through storm cloud, the data arrives while an event is still unfolding rather than days afterwards.
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SAR Satellite Constellation
The fleet of small synthetic aperture radar satellites the company designs, builds and operates. Radar imaging works through cloud and darkness, which is the specific gap that optical constellations cannot fill however many satellites they launch.
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People

Rafal Modrzewski
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Rafal Modrzewski co-founded the company in 2014 out of research at Aalto University in Finland. He has led it from a university project to an operational satellite constellation.
Pekka Laurila
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Pekka Laurila co-founded the company alongside Modrzewski and leads its strategy and government relationships. He was part of the original Aalto research group.
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
53/100
Stable
Open positions
177
33 opened / 36 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
59 days
faster than 24% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
16% ▼
Operations
14% ▲
Hardware
12% ▼
Backend
8% ▼
Management
7%
Field & Service
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Operations (+7 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: New Delhi Oct 2026
Added Zero Trust to stack Oct 2026
Added BGP to stack Oct 2026
New location: Finland Sep 2026
New location: India Sep 2026
Added VLAN to stack Sep 2026
Added Ubuntu to stack Sep 2026
Added Puppet to stack Sep 2026
Added Keycloak to stack Sep 2026
Added GitLab to stack Sep 2026
Added Debian to stack Sep 2026
Added Datadog to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
12
Hiring now
12
Countries
10
Busiest office
Espoo
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Espoo Finland
HQ
91 open roles 74 posted in 90 days 43% engineering 1% remote 200-500 est. staff $123k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Industrial Engineering, Hardware
02150 Espoo
seen since Apr 2026 company site, job postings
Warsaw Poland
Engineering / R&D
30 open roles 27 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Leadership
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Valencia Spain
Plant / site
27 open roles 24 posted in 90 days 26% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Backend
seen since May 2026 job postings
Berlin Germany
Engineering / R&D
14 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 64% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for DevOps, AI/ML, Networking
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Athens Greece
Plant / site
11 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 9% remote 10-50 est. staff $172k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Operations, Field & Service
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Tokyo Japan
Plant / site
9 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 11% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Hardware, Finance
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Lisbon Portugal
Plant / site
8 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Management, DevOps, Leadership
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Munich Germany
Regional office
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Management, Customer Success
seen since Apr 2026
Stockholm Sweden
Sales office
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 33% remote 1-10 est. staff $172k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Management
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
New Delhi India
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Finance, Marketing
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Neuss Germany
1 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
seen since Apr 2026
Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Customer Success
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Earlier presence
Singapore, Singapore 2 open roles · last posting Sep 2026

Jobs

≈ $63k – $154k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Espoo
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
Zero Trust
Management
Agile
Apply
$67k – $79k per year (gross) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Espoo
Python
Bash
PostgreSQL
InfluxDB
DevOps
Rest API
Terraform
Ansible
Helm
Rancher
VMWare
Kubernetes
Grafana
Linux
Management
Agile
Apply
$81k – $108k per year (gross) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Espoo
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
PostGIS
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude
Devin
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
Management
Agile
Apply
Hybrid • Full-Time • Espoo
Puppet
Ansible
IAM
Linux
Windows
TCP/IP
DNS
DHCP
Cybersecurity
Okta
Management
Jira
ServiceNow
Microsoft Teams
Agile
ITIL
ITSM
Service Desk
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≈ $81k – $170k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Berlin
Python
Dask
Databases
PostgreSQL
PostGIS
AI/ML
Weights & Biases
Spark
MLFlow
Quantization
Computer Vision
ONNX
TensorRT
Kubeflow
PyTorch
Ray
KServe
Triton
TorchServe
DevOps
Terraform
Helm
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Argo Workflows
Management
Agile
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≈ $71k – $127k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Berlin
Python
PostgreSQL
PostGIS
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
DevOps
VMWare
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Proxmox VE
Management
Agile
Apply
≈ $52k – $126k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Espoo • Berlin
Python
Terraform
Ansible
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Linux
BGP
Management
Agile
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≈ $49k – $132k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Espoo • Berlin
Python
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Terraform
Helm
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
IAM
DNS
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
Management
Agile
Apply
≈ $54k – $150k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Valencia
Agile
Apply
≈ $44k – $131k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Espoo
Agile
Apply
≈ $48k – $130k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Espoo
Terraform
Puppet
Ansible
Debian
GitOps
Git
Kubernetes
Ubuntu
GitLab
IAM
Linux
DNS
DHCP
VPN
VLAN
Cybersecurity
Keycloak
ISO 27001
PKI
Management
Agile
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$114k – $141k per year (gross) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Espoo
Go
PostgreSQL
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Datadog
AWS
Management
Agile
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Financials

Total raised
$173M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
6
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2025 $193k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $136M Details
Grant 2021 $32k Details
Grant 2020 $107k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $34M Details
Grant 2015 $2.6M Details