Senior Systems Engineer

In this senior role, you drive systems engineering across spacecraft programs, providing technical leadership and ensuring coherence among requirements, architecture, interfaces, budgets, verification, AIT and operations. You lead multidisciplinary teams and act as Technical Lead where needed, shaping architecture and verification strategies. You’ll manage complex interfaces and trade-offs to deliver reliable space systems. This is a chance to influence end-to-end spacecraft development at scale.

• Provide systems engineering leadership across spacecraft projects and work packages
• Maintain coherence across requirements, architecture, interfaces, budgets, verification, AIT and operations
• Define and manage spacecraft and mission architectures including CONOPS and subsystem architectures
• Lead requirements definition, traceability, verification and compliance
• Manage interfaces between subsystems and across boundaries (platform-payload, space-ground, launch, suppliers)
• Lead technical trade-offs balancing performance, feasibility, cost, schedule and risk
• Lead system budget analysis (mass, power, data, delta-V, RF)
• Plan and lead verification and validation activities, including strategy, test planning and criteria
• Support integration, qualification and acceptance testing; resolve test anomalies
• Review outputs, communicate status and risks; mentor engineers; contribute to bid/proposal activity

• Systems engineering experience for complex multidisciplinary systems
• Ownership of a subsystem or major work package through lifecycle
• Defining and managing system architectures across hardware, software, payload, ground and operation elements
• Requirements management, traceability, verification and compliance
• Managing interfaces and reviewing/producing Interface Control Documents
• Independent management of system budgets and leading technical trade-offs
• Systems verification and validation, spacecraft test planning and AIT support
• Relevant degree or equivalent professional experience in engineering or physics
• Desirable: space/aerospace or high-reliability environment, mission analysis, FDIR, FMECA, MBSE, ECSS standards, spacecraft hardware

• Leadership and mentoring
• Clear communication of technical status and risks
• Cross-functional collaboration
• MBSE
• ECSS standards
• Interface Control Documents (ICDs)