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Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer

2 months ago


Irvine, California, United States Terran Orbital Corporation Full time
Job Title: Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer

At Terran Orbital Corporation, we are seeking an experienced Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for leading the technical definition of our products and missions, working closely with a multidisciplinary team to design and develop optimal architectures and detailed solutions to complex space domain missions.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead and work closely with hardware, software, mechanical, mission operations, and other systems engineers to design and develop optimal architectures and detailed solutions to complex space domain missions.
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation, including system requirements, design specifications, and test plans.
  • Collaborate with program and product management to implement and manage schedules, knowledge management, configurations, and change management documents.
  • Participate in technical discussions with customers and suppliers to ensure mission success.
  • Manage requirements to ensure maturity, feasibility, proper flow-down and traceability, requirements verification, and requirements validation.
  • Perform mission, system, and vehicle level trade studies to balance risk, cost, and performance.
  • Support assembly, integration, and test activities, including build procedures, test plans/procedures, and other verification and validations execution activities.
  • Develop systems engineering artifacts that support requirements and architecture development, modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, network operations, interoperability, verification and validation testing, and enterprise deployment and capability monitoring.
Requirements:
  • BS or MS in engineering field with focus on Aerospace or other engineering discipline with 10+ years work experience or demonstrated equivalent.
  • Technical leadership experience across one or multiple areas in the space domain.
  • Demonstrated ability to make complex critical decisions in a timely manner.
  • Demonstrated experience and success with one or more of the technical areas listed above.
  • Experience leading day-to-day operations on complex programs or large functional organizations, with proven collaboration and coordination skills across internal and external stakeholder organizations.
  • Experience with risk, issue, and opportunity management.
  • Understanding of how people, process, tools, systems, and leadership concept of operations operate to achieve goals.
  • Proven ability to deliver effective communication verbally, written, and through well-crafted presentations across all levels of an organization.
  • Impeccable attention to detail and sense of urgency.
  • Ability to self-govern with minimal supervision, establish workload priorities, and to utilize efficient time management practices to achieve assigned tasks.
Additional Differentiators:
  • Demonstrate experience and success with technical leadership of launched or operational space domain systems and architectures.
  • Demonstrate experience and success with space-based encrypted communications architectures and devices, as well as knowledge of standards for geospatial intelligence data and products.
  • Demonstrate experience and success with space-based reliability, availability, and maintainability, and safety.
  • Demonstrate experience and success with space-based optical systems and applications.
  • Demonstrate experience and success with space-based remote sensing systems.
  • Demonstrate experience and success with rendezvous proximity operations and docking.
  • Familiarity with MATLAB, S.T.K., and Linux platforms.
  • Familiarity with satellite system budgets, including mass, power, and link budgets.
Benefits:
  • 100% Company-paid comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
  • 401(K) Match.
  • Unlimited PTOSalary Range $130,000-$200,000.

Your actual level and base salary will be determined case-by-case and may vary based on the job-related qualification, knowledge, skills, education, and experience.