Propulsion Systems Engineer

What you'll do

• Derive and maintain propulsion subsystem requirements from mission, spacecraft, and regulatory needs.
• Manage propulsion technical baselines, budgets, and margins for propellant, power, and mass.
• Define and maintain interfaces between propulsion systems and flight software, GNC, power, and avionics.
• Conduct technical analyses and trade studies to drive documented decisions for propulsion architectures.
• Define test requirements and maintain requirements-to-verification traceability for hardware-in-the-loop and hot fire campaigns.
• Perform FMECA, fault management, and risk assessments to drive technical mitigations for propulsion systems.
• Troubleshoot hardware and analyze data for thrusters, power processing units, and feed systems.
• Track on-orbit performance data and support root cause investigations for off-nominal scenarios.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or an equivalent field.
• 3+ years of technical engineering experience.
• Experience developing, analyzing, or testing spacecraft or aerospace propulsion hardware.
• Experience developing functional specifications, requirements, interface definitions, design verification plans, and test procedures.
• Experience with physics-based modeling and analysis of propulsion or spacecraft systems.
• Proficiency with scripting in Python, MATLAB, or equivalent for analysis and data visualization.
• Advanced degree in aerospace engineering, plasma physics, or related discipline (preferred).
• Export control laws and regulations, candidates.