Product Systems Engineer
About The Position
As a Product Systems Engineer at Loft, you will work at the intersection of software architecture, systems engineering, and product — contributing to the coherence of our overall offering across ground, space, software, and hardware. You will help define how capabilities are structured and allocated across segments, and how customers, third-party software, and Loft's own stack interact. This is a role for someone who wants to go deep on technically complex problems that span the full stack. You will work across ground processing, customer-facing tooling, and interface definition — contributing to architecture decisions, maintaining requirements and ICDs, and helping ensure the offering evolves in a consistent and product-relevant way. You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, and operations teams across sites to turn technical ambiguity into clear frameworks for implementation.
Requirements
- Strong systems engineering background in complex technical products spanning software and hardware
- Experience working at the boundary between architecture definition, requirements structuring, and engineering implementation
- Proficiency in software architecture, networking protocols, embedded systems, and integration strategies
- Ability to structure complex systems into clear capabilities, interfaces, requirements, and responsibilities
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical efforts and align diverse teams toward a common goal
- Strong communication and documentation skills, including the ability to distill technical ambiguity into a clear framework for decisions and execution
- Experience designing modular systems with standardized interfaces across power, data, mechanical, and thermal domains
- Sound engineering judgment on the right level of rigor, abstraction, and specification for a growing organization
Nice To Haves
- Experience with modular system design and integration using a building-block approach
- Experience developing reusable, scalable products in a technical leadership role
- Familiarity with satellite communication protocols including RF and/or optical links
- Familiarity with onboard data processing and cloud-based ground segment software for mission operations
- Understanding of aerospace standards and best practices
- International and cross-site engineering experience
Responsibilities
- Define and own the integrated-level system design for the Hub
- Take ownership of the development of selected capabilities across the Hub product scope
- Translate high-level concepts into actionable technical specifications for modular subsystems
- Lead and coordinate requirements, traceability, future-proofing, CONOPS, ICDs, trade studies, risk topics, and design reviews
- Follow hardware, qualification, flight software, ground software, and operational procedure development through the product lifecycle
- Monitor reviews and development progress to ensure technical decisions, requirements, and actions are being captured and closed appropriately
- Ensure requirements are clearly defined, well allocated, and properly verified against the intended CONOPS and product objectives
- Check validation plans, verification logic, and test results to maintain overall quality and consistency during development
- Ensure modular components are designed and integrated to deliver a cohesive and scalable system
- Partner with hardware and software teams to ensure clean interfaces and effective integration between components
- Collaborate with Product Management to refine product boundaries and technical direction
- Provide guidance on key technical decisions and help align teams around a common technical direction
- Create and maintain system design and interface documentation including ICD, IRD, and CONOPS material
- Help maintain product quality and technical coherence from development into production and operational use
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents
- Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA
- 100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance
- Flexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave
- 12 paid holidays
- 401(k) plan and equity options
- Daily catered lunches and snacks in office
- International exposure to our team in France
- Fully paid parental leave; 14 weeks for birthing parent and 10 weeks for non-birthing parent
- Carrot Fertility provides comprehensive, inclusive fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits with financial support
- Off-sites and many social events and celebrations
- Relocation assistance when applicable
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
