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General Submission

NewPosted 2 months ago

General Submission

We're a stealth team building space hardware at the edge of what's currently possible — high-stakes, flight-grade systems where the engineering bar is unforgiving and the upside is enormous. While we can’t share full details yet, our founding and early engineering team includes talent from SpaceX...

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Founding Lead Mechanical Engineer

NewPosted 3 months ago

Founding Lead Mechanical Engineer

  • Own the mechanical and structural architecture of flight-grade hardware, from concept through detailed design, prototyping, qualification, integration, and flight.
  • Lead the design of primary and secondary structures, precision mechanisms, deployables, interfaces, and electromechanical assemblies optimized for launch loads, vacuum, vibration, thermal cycling, and microgravity.
Other Engineering

Founding Lead Space EPS (Electrical Power Systems) Engineer

NewPosted 3 months ago

Founding Lead Space EPS (Electrical Power Systems) Engineer

  • Own the end-to-end design of the electrical power system — power generation, energy storage, regulation, distribution, and harnessing — from concept through detailed design, prototyping, qualification, integration, and on-orbit operations.
  • Build and maintain power and energy budgets across every mission phase and orbital condition — ...
Other Engineering

Founding Lead GNC Engineer

NewPosted 3 months ago

Founding Lead GNC Engineer

  • Own the GNC architecture for autonomous rendezvous, proximity operations, and related mission phases, from early design through simulation, testing, integration, and flight.
  • Lead the development of guidance, navigation, and control algorithms for approach, stationkeeping, proximity maneuvers, aborts, collision avoidance, and other safety-critical maneuvers.
Engineering

Founding Lead Flight Software Engineer

NewPosted 3 months ago

Founding Lead Flight Software Engineer

  • Own the flight software architecture, from early design through development, integration, test, qualification, and flight operations.
  • Lead development of real-time embedded flight software: board support packages, bootloaders, device drivers, RTOS configuration, scheduling, and inter-task communication.