# Backend Engineering Intern: Ground Platform Control

Wanna join the adventure? Loft Orbital is looking for a Backend Engineering Intern to join our Ground Platform, Control Team. The Control team owns the backend services that let Loft operators and customers command, monitor, and automate our satellite fleet through Cockpit, our mission control system. You'll help build and scale the microservices that sit between ground and flight software, turning high-level intent into safe, reliable on-orbit operations. Our team sits in the middle of Flight Software, Satellite Operations, and Test teams, giving you the chance to learn about the full end-to-end systems that go into launching and operating a satellite mission. If you're excited about building backend systems that directly control satellites - and you like the idea of both shipping code and helping fly missions - we'd love to hear from you. Location: Toulouse office, city center (Jeanne d’Arc metro station) Duration: 6-month, end-of-studies internship - target start date: early 2027. About this role: Your task will be to design and develop a control investigation API which will assist operators with investigations and enable the automation of standard investigations into failed co

- **Id**: 4028145
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/loft-orbital-backend-engineering-intern-ground-platform-control>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toulouse, France
- **Countries**: FR
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T15:01:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T17:40:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3252
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Manufacturing, Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 4539
- **Name**: Loft Orbital
- **Domain**: loftorbital.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/loft-orbital-solutions>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.375
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 85
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Django** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **FastAPI** — Optional: yes
- **Flask** — Optional: yes
- **Slack** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T17:40:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 85
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T19:56:19Z

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