Spire Global https://spire.com | Multiple Positions | Full Time | Onsite | San Francisco, Boulder, Washington DC, Glasgow, Luxembourg, Singapore |
Spire Global is a 160 person space data company that is changing the world with space data and analytics. Founded in 2012, Spire designs and operates one of the largest satellite constellations in the world (we just celebrated the launch of our 100th satellite), which it uses to gather maritime, aviation, and weather data. The company owns the entire stack from custom hardware to customer APIs.
About Me: Currently finishing up my Bachelors in Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Looking for full time positions beginning June 2015. Really interested in the connected hardware space and consumer electronic design. I've done everything from programming embedded devices to building supercomputers and I'm willing to look for jobs in other areas.
This article is right on time with me as I'm working to figure out if the gamification in our internal website is really worth it.
Here is the premise: Anyone can create an event and based on the type and duration its assigned a score. Once the person attends the event they are given a secret keyword to prove they were actually at the event. Then they go back online and enter the keyword and get points.
The idea of the points is to use them to enter contests for prizes and such, hopefully making attending events more enticing.
I'm not so sure the gamification is worth it. If the event is good enough it should warrant attendance based on a persons interest. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
The only downside to this is the HD 4400 graphics unit. [1] I'm worried about it running everything smoothly at 2k. The HD 5000 is much better suited to run at that resolution.
My Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus has a HD 4400 graphics unit and runs fine at 3200 x 1800, so you shouldn't have to worry unless you're doing something pretty graphically intensive.
After talking to people in the know, the reason they didn't upgrade to the Haswell with HD 5000 is they didn't want the increase in power related to having the extra graphics units.
Spire Global is a 160 person space data company that is changing the world with space data and analytics. Founded in 2012, Spire designs and operates one of the largest satellite constellations in the world (we just celebrated the launch of our 100th satellite), which it uses to gather maritime, aviation, and weather data. The company owns the entire stack from custom hardware to customer APIs.
tl;dr space
We're hiring in many areas:
- Spacecraft Software
- RF/Antenna Design
- Guidance, Navigation and Control
- Constellation Automation and Modeling
- Numerical Weather Prediction
- GNSS
- Legal
- Product Marketing
See the full list at https://spire.com/en/spire/careers#jobslist