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About The Position

Requirements

• U.S. citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
• 5–7 years of experience working with space-based optical remote sensing payloads or similar hardware systems.
• Demonstrated experience developing spacecraft-to-payload interfaces and working with multiple space-segment teams in a cross-functional role.
• Experience with general software tools such as MATLAB and Python, and ability to learn and use new tools as job demands evolve.
• Understanding of requirements-management documentation, such as specifications and interface control documents (ICDs), and related processes.
• Experience working across organizational boundaries, such as between payload, spacecraft, and ground teams.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Physics.
• Systems engineering experience for space platforms, including awareness of specialty disciplines such as radiation survivability and electromagnetic compatibility.
• Experience with modeling tools such as STK, SPICE, HFSS, or signal-integrity or power-analysis software.
• Familiarity with visible, multispectral, or hyperspectral imaging payloads, data-processing requirements, and performance metrics such as SNR and MTF.
• Familiarity with current and emerging technologies, including FPGAs, processors, memory, and storage devices.
• Experience with fault management, redundancy architectures, and design for reliability in long-duration space missions.
• Familiarity with space-industry quality and standards frameworks, including NASA GSFC, JPL, ECSS, MIL-STD-1547, and IPC standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage the technical interface between the imaging payload and spacecraft bus, ensuring compatibility and joint optimization across electrical, mechanical, thermal, and data interfaces.
• Lead and participate in system-level trades evaluating design alternatives, performance-versus-cost and risk trade-offs, and technology insertion opportunities.
• Participate in supplier management through site visits, review of deliverable artifacts, and design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR), coordinating across disciplines to ensure payload systems meet performance, reliability, and environmental constraints.
• Support development of a comprehensive payload concept of operations, including modeling and evaluation of power, data, and timing interactions across system states and modes.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, COTS/FoS hardware, and new mission concepts for system-level integration feasibility.
• Assess and troubleshoot emerging payload and spacecraft bus designs.

Benefits

• Robust 401(k) with company match.
• Mental health resources.
• Student loan repayment assistance.
• Adoption reimbursement.
• Pet insurance.
• Incentive-eligible compensation, with the plan and target based on the role and breadth of contributions.