Location: Fully remote from Italy. Candidates must reside or be willing to relocate to Italy for tax and legal compliance purposes. No visa sponsorship.
Type: Full-time
Experience: 3+ years
Salary: €36,000 - €48,000
Starting date: December 2026, preferably earlier.
Who We Are
Ecosmic is on a mission to reduce threat exposure in space by building software for Space Domain Awareness.
We are a high-tech, data-driven space startup, bringing together an international team of engineers and computer scientists. We move fast, think deeply, and care about building things that matter.
We're looking for a Research Engineer with at least 3 years of experience and a background in Mathematical Engineering (or a closely related field) to join our team. The role focuses on the development, validation, and optimisation of mathematically complex algorithms, ensuring numerical correctness and high-performance implementation across our software stack.
The role combines software and algorithms development, giving you the opportunity to work across R&D; and software infrastructure.
What You'll Do




You will develop, review, and optimise mathematically complex algorithms that power our space awareness platform, ensuring both numerical correctness and production-grade performance. You will work closely with space engineers to improve computational efficiency, and software engineers to streamline data processing pipelines, and provide expert technical review of algorithmic implementations.
Responsibilities
Implementing complex mathematical models and algorithms (e.g. interpolators, covariance generation, Kalman filter)
Reviewing the numerical implementations by space engineers across multiple projects and algorithms
Data structuring (e.g. pre-building datasets) and working on data quality and preprocessing
Continuously optimising code to improve performance and minimise latency
Who You Are
Master's degree in Mathematics, Mathematical Engineering, Computer Science with a strong mathematical bac

📌 Research Engineer (Italia)
🏢 Ecosmic
📍 Italia