Chief Engineer, SpacePosted today$336K

The opportunity

We are looking for a Chief Engineer to join our rapidly growing space team in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, you will serve as the technical lead on a wide berth of emerging developments geared towards high-impact spacecraft missions focused on dynamic space operations, space…

What you'll do

  • Provide technical leadership and system-level expertise across spacecraft bus: subsystems, specialized payload suites, and ground segments.

  • Serve as the technical authority on the program and maintain the technical: integrity of the program. Monitor, control, and execute the engineering baseline of the program, and act in concert with the Program Manager to ensure that technical scope is both appropriate for the mission and satisfies end-customer needs.

  • Lead technical execution and architecture development for key mission areas,: including Space Control and dynamic RPO missions.

  • Drive the engineering lifecycle for space vehicles and mission payloads from: early architecture trades through flight hardware delivery and on-orbit commissioning.

  • Leverage strategic partnerships and teammates to build out new products that: satisfy customer requirements in contested and challenging mission environments.

  • Provide space industry expertise to refine and advance the Anduril Space: portfolio and strategy for customer engagements and demonstrations.

What they're looking for

  • Contribute technical inputs and engineering execution plans to high-priority proposals.
  • Provide technical mentorship and oversight to a multi-disciplinary: engineering team through all phases of program execution up to and including on-orbit operations.
  • Perform mission: and system-level trade studies and analysis to balance risk, cost, schedule, and mission performance.