Wanna join the adventure?
Loft Orbital flies other people's payloads on standardized satellites, giving our customers a fast, simple, and reliable path to orbit. Our AI for Space team is looking for a motivated intern to explore how fast, lightweight “System 1” models can boost reactivity, performance, and usability across our satellite operational chains.
Reactivity use cases are at the heart of Loft's vision, and we are scaling them: from single-satellite reactive loops, to two-satellite / two-sensor tip & cue (a detection from one sensor automatically cueing an acquisition by another), and ultimately multi-satellite scenarios. Today we mostly rely on “System 2” models — powerful but slow and heavy at inference — from our partners. “System 1” models (fast, intuitive) are coming back strongly and could add value not only on reactivity, but also on performance and ease of use. This internship will assess that added value and prototype it on our reactivity scenarios.
Location: Toulouse office, city center (Jeanne d’Arc metro station)
Duration: 6-month, end-of-studies internship — target start date: early 2027.
*Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes.
Loft: Space Made Simple.
Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.
We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.
As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.
Loft builds the space infrastructure that lets any company, government or institution harness the benefits of space.
We have developed a standardized satellite platform that can be configured to fly any customer mission. With our own hardware and software abstraction layers on top of a commodity satellite bus, our platform is truly turnkey and plug-and-play.
