Staff Engineer, Ground Systems
Senior technical leader serving as Chief Engineer for satellite ground systems programs, coordinating across mission software, infrastructure, and operations teams while contributing hands-on to design and troubleshooting.
About the job
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a program technical leader / Chief Engineer for complex commercial and government space programs
- Support successful engineering execution across mission software, platform infrastructure, reliability, security, and integration activities
- Coordinate technical alignment across engineering teams to ensure cohesive system behavior and successful mission execution
- Partner with engineering leads to identify and resolve cross-system technical risks, interface challenges, and integration concerns
- Support architectural cohesion and long-term technical evolution across ground systems ecosystem
- Contribute to technical strategy, system design, and architecture development for mission operations platforms
- Participate in proposal development, technical solution definition, and customer technical engagements
- Conduct technical reviews, design reviews, and mission readiness assessments
- Support anomaly investigation, troubleshooting, and operational issue resolution for mission-critical systems
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to engineers across the organization
- Contribute directly to engineering efforts through design, implementation, prototyping, and technical problem solving
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience developing, integrating, or operating aerospace, satellite, or mission-critical software systems
- Strong technical breadth across software systems, operational systems, and aerospace mission domains
- Experience with satellite ground systems, mission operations, command and control, or flight dynamics and mission planning tools
- Experience designing, integrating, or operating distributed software systems in production environments
- Strong understanding of software architecture, systems integration, and operational reliability
- Ability to communicate effectively across software, operations, platform / infrastructure, and customer stakeholders
- Experience leading technical efforts across multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous and rapidly evolving technical environments
- Active U.S. Security Clearance (TS/SCI Preferred, S Required)
Benefits
- 15 days minimum PTO with unlimited PTO policy
- Quarterly health & wellness benefits
- 100% health insurance coverage for employees and family
- 4% 401(k) matching
- Annual 4-day company offsite
Skills
Satellite Ground Systems, Mission Operations, Command And Control, Flight Dynamics, Mission Planning, Distributed Software Systems, Software Architecture, Systems Integration, Aerospace Systems, Security Clearance
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