Detection & Tracking Engineer
Pubblicato il 07-09-2026 - Oris in Torino
Detection & Tracking Engineer
Location: Turin, Italy
Full-Time
Salary Range: €30,000 - €50,000
Join ORiS and help build the future of energy in space.
At ORiS, we are building the technologies that will power the next generation of space missions. Through laser-based wireless power transmission, we aim to overcome the energy limitations of today’s satellites and enable longer, more capable, and more resilient operations in orbit.
As a Detection & Tracking Engineer, you will develop vision-based algorithms that enable our systems to detect, recognize, and track target satellites against complex orbital backgrounds. You will work on distinguishing satellites and their solar panels from stars, noise, and other objects in the field of view, estimating their position within the acquired images, and providing real-time pointing feedback to the laser transmission system.
This is a role combining computer vision, image processing, estimation, and machine learning.
You will contribute to the development of autonomous optical detection and tracking technologies that are critical to achieving accurate and reliable laser-to-satellite pointing.
What You Will Do
- Design and develop vision-based algorithms for the detection, recognition, and tracking of target satellites and their solar panels.
- Develop image-processing and machine-learning techniques to distinguish the target spacecraft from stars, noise, and other objects within the sensor’s field of view.
- Estimate the target’s position and motion within acquired images and generate real-time feedback for the pointing and tracking system.
- Develop and train machine-learning models for satellite recognition, segmentation, and feature extraction using synthetic and experimental datasets.
- Design robust tracking algorithms capable of maintaining target lock under changing illumination conditions, partial visibility, image noise, and low signal-to-noise ratios.
- Define confidence metrics and target-validation logic to