Jobs at Pillar Space

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...

• Own the end-to-end mechanical and structural design of cutting-edge flight-grade hardware — from concept through detailed design, prototyping, qualification, integration, and deployment.
• Design precision mechanisms, interfaces, and electromechanical assemblies optimized for vacuum, vibration, thermal cycling, and microgravity.

• 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 — ...

• 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.

• Own the avionics and flight software architecture, from early design through development, integration, test, qualification, and flight.
• Lead the design of flight electronics: flight computers, command and data handling (C&DH), sensor and actuator interfaces, and the boards and buses that tie the vehicle together.