Senior Systems Engineer

About the role

Star Catcher is powering the future of space by building the world’s first orbital energy grid: the Star Catcher Network. Spacecraft connect into the Star Catcher Network and receive conditioned energy via their existing solar arrays, requiring no retrofit to utilize the first true space-based infrastructure. The Star Catcher Network provides power as needed from tens of Watts to tens of thousands of Watts at concentrations from fractions of a Sun of flux to ten Suns of flux. The Star Catcher Network enables More Uptime, More Bandwidth, and More Mission.

Join our team of experienced and passionate space innovators driven to transform and expand humanity’s utilization of space. The creation of space-based power infrastructure is as impactful for space missions in the 2020’s and 2030’s as the advent of low-cost launch services was in the 2010’s. We seek individuals who share our passion for enabling people to do more in space and are not afraid to get their hands dirty to make our vision of the future reality.

Responsibilities

• Apply an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to plan, design, develop and verify a lifecycle balanced system of systems and system solutions.
• Serve as a focal point for technical issues and functions, and coordination between engineering teams.
• Evaluate customer and operational needs to define and coordinate system performance requirements, integrate technical parameters/algorithms, and assure compatibility of all physical, functional and program interfaces.
• Create, track, and maintain requirements in state-of-the-art tools.
• Perform various analyses to optimize total system of systems and/or system architecture.
• Lead the resolution of technical issues with other SMEs and product teams.
• Write technical policies, procedures, and documentation.
• Support business development efforts for proposals/bids.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems, Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering or related field and a minimum of 10 years’ experience in a broad background in systems engineering is preferred.
• Experience leading the development of space systems for challenging environments and missions.
• Experience in small teams and building systems engineering teams.
• Experience with MBSE (Model Based System Engineering).
• Experience with NASA/DoD lifecycle reviews (e.g. SRR, PDR, CDR).
• Experience with requirement tracking tools.

Skills

• Familiarity with configuration management practices.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to interface with the team and organization and prioritize tasks, projects, and personnel from a variety of disciplines.
• Possesses a broad background in systems engineering.
• Experience using software tools for performing complex analyses (Excel, MatLab, custom tools).

Benefits

We offer a highly competitive benefits package.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.