Systems Engineer, Space Special Programs

What you'll do

• Manage the full life cycle of spacecraft design, development, integration, testing, and operations.
• Develop, track, and maintain system requirements to ensure compliance across all subsystems.
• Define and maintain program risks, risk burn-down plans, and system budgets.
• Conduct rapid prototyping, design verification, and qualification activities to reach product maturity.
• Generate technical documentation including test plans, procedures, and design review presentations for customers.
• Apply space-flight hardware design standards to create high-reliability and highly manufacturable systems.
• Drive integration and test activities to ensure projects meet strict schedules.
• Participate in cross-discipline design reviews to communicate progress to internal and external stakeholders.

What we're looking for

• B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, computer science, or a similar engineering or technical field.
• 2-8 years of professional experience in hardware-based product development.
• Basic understanding of design techniques for space flight mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing requirements.
• Ability to generate comprehensive block diagrams and decompose a system into its requirements.
• Familiarity with standard interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, and MIPI CSI-2.
• Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices, technologies, and basic spacecraft design principles.
• Familiarity with managing budgets and creating models for power, data usage, and propellant.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
• Experience designing, integrating, and flying Cubesat spacecraft in LEO through GEO environments (preferred).
• 1+ years of experience working in a classified environment (preferred).