Senior Systems Engineer

YOUR MISSION

We are seeking Senior Aerospace Systems Engineers to join our team in developing and integrating cutting-edge aerospace and defense systems. In this role you will play a critical role in defining, analyzing, and ensuring the successful implementation of mission, element, and subsystem requirements across complex, mission-critical space systems, supporting national defense initiatives, and advancing technologies in autonomous space operations. You will support requirements development, traceability, and verification across multiple vehicles and systems. You work closely with cross-functional teams while conducting impact analyses for changes, ensuring design integrity across the system, supporting integration and test planning, performing risk assessments, and providing inputs for design reviews.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Systems Engineering team supports multiple programs and disciplines. We are seeking talented, flexible engineers with a desire to develop varying skillsets. Our Senior Systems Engineers begin as focals for specific disciplines supporting the functional team across multiple programs. We are seeking candidates who have domain expertise with the following space vehicle subsystems to act as subsystem Systems Engineers: 

• Command and Data Handling
• Communications
• Cyber/Crypto
• Electrical Power
• Flight Software
• Guidance, Navigation, and Control
• Mechanisms
• Payload Integration
• Propulsion
• Structures / Harness
• Thermal Control

Each focal has a varied scope depending on the subsystem being supported. As a member of this team, you may:

• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and internal teams to define and document mission objectives, system requirements, and operational concepts.
• Translate customer and mission needs into actionable engineering solutions, ensuring alignment with technical and programmatic constraints.
• Lead system trade studies, performance evaluations, and feasibility assessments to ensure optimal system architecture design.
• Prepare detailed technical reports, presentations, and documentation for internal and external stakeholders, including government agencies and customers.
• Develop system-level integration and verification plans, conducting end-to-end testing to validate mission requirements.
• Coordinate with subsystem teams to troubleshoot and resolve integration challenges, ensuring mission readiness.
• Support mission operations teams during testing and real-time mission execution.
• Conduct system performance analysis, including reliability, safety, and mission effectiveness, under various environmental conditions.
• Assess mission success criteria and operational risks and propose mitigation strategies.
• Identify and analyze mission risks related to complex space missions, including collision risks and operational uncertainties.
• Develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans for safe and reliable mission execution.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years full lifecycle experience leading a major subsystem through design, test, and verification 
• Strong technical leadership and systems architecture experience
• Proven leadership in design, analysis, and verification on a major aerospace program 
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with ability to lead technical trades 
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical teams and coordinate across hardware and software boundaries
• Bachelors Degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or related field
• U.S. Citizen and eligible for DoD TS/SCI or TS/SAP U.S. government security clearance.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Advanced degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering
• Strong track record leading cross-functional engineering teams and managing design-to-delivery cycles 
• Demonstrated expertise with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Background in range certification, test readiness reviews, and safety boards
• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Experience in defense or classified space missions.
• Familiarity with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and NASA mission standards and processes

COMPENSATION

• Base Salary: $130,000-$195,000

• Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to maintain or obtain TS//SCI clearance
• Work Location: this a fully onsite position based out of our Centennial, CO or Long Beach, CA office
• Work environment is in a standard office, working at a desk or in a production factory.
• Physical demands may include frequent standing, sitting, walking, bending, and lifting or carrying items up to 20lbs.
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