Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer

What you'll do

• Own the requirements and technical baseline for electric propulsion, attitude determination, and flight dynamics.
• Manage system budgets and margins for mass, power, propellant, and on-orbit lifetime.
• Define and maintain interfaces between subsystems including flight software, power, thermal, and avionics.
• Establish verification and test strategies for hardware and software from ground tests to on-orbit evidence.
• Lead fault management work including FMECA and fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR).
• Define technical performance measures to drive design, test, and operational decisions.
• Maintain requirements traceability across multiple concurrent satellite configurations.

What we're looking for

• Must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or an equivalent field.
• 7+ years of spacecraft or aerospace systems engineering experience.
• Experience with spacecraft attitude determination and control, including sensors, actuators, and control modes.
• Experience establishing system-level requirements for a new design.
• Experience defining and documenting interfaces between subsystems that combine hardware and software.
• Experience establishing test strategy for a system that combines hardware and software.
• Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates.