Jobs at Umbra

• Design, build and test spacecraft hardware and mechanisms, including:
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and refine requirements.

• Design and analyze spacecraft hardware and components, including:
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to derive and refine requirements.

Umbra is an American space technology company delivering advanced systems, from sensors to spacecraft, that empower customers worldwide with unmatched access to critical information from space. Our mission is simple and ambitious: redefine space—for people, systems, and missions in every domain.

Umbra is an American space technology company delivering advanced systems, from sensors to spacecraft, that empower customers worldwide with unmatched access to critical information from space. Our mission is simple and ambitious: redefine space—for people, systems, and missions in every domain.

• Lead Ground Software Architecture: A strong understanding of software architecture, event-driven microservices, interface design, and automated testing practices. Define and develop end-to-end architectures for mission-critical ground systems supporting space, ISR, and national security missions, ensuring scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise solutions.

• Design, build and test spacecraft hardware and mechanisms, including:
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and refine requirements.

• Develop and document production processes and procedures that enable repeatable, reliable manufacturing.
• Lead planning and execution of prototype builds, coordinating materials, hardware, engineering priorities, schedules, and technicians to successfully deliver build milestones.

• Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary engineering team to design, develop, and maintain reliable, fault-tolerant flight and payload software.
• Architect and implement software solutions to meet high-level system requirements while managing interfaces with multiple spacecraft subsystems and ground systems hardware.

• Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary engineering team to design, develop, and maintain reliable, fault-tolerant flight and payload software.
• Implement software to meet requirements while managing interfaces with multiple spacecraft subsystems and ground systems hardware.

• Drive yourself and all of your team to become better software engineers.
• Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary engineering team to design, develop, and maintain reliable, fault-tolerant flight and payload software.

• Own and maintain the program technical baseline, ensuring requirements, interfaces, architecture, and technical decisions remain aligned across the program.
• Provide systems engineering leadership across the:

• Monitor, operate, and maintain a constellation of on-orbit satellites.
• Support the development and execution of mission plans and on-orbit CONOPS across the vehicle life cycle, including integration, launch, early operations checkouts, payload calibrations, orbital maneuvers, and other on-orbit activities.

• Lead the development, implementation, and administration of integrated security programs supporting classified Intelligence Community activities.
• Serve as the primary security liaison among program leadership, government security representatives, customers, subcontractors, and internal security organizations.

• Ensure the reliability and scalability of critical systems, meeting SLAs through proactive monitoring and effective incident response.
• Develop and promote new technologies and tools, conducting research and creating proofs of concept to introduce solutions that enhance the team's capabilities.

• Own the end-to-end architecture and design of Type-1 cryptographic integrations across the spacecraft, payload, and ground segment.
• Lead crypto designs from concept and trade studies through implementation, integration, certification, and on-orbit operations.

• Architect Secure Ground Systems: Define and develop end-to-end architectures for mission-critical ground systems supporting space, ISR, and national security missions, ensuring scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise solutions.
• Lead System Integration & Verification: Plan and execute system integration, verification, ...

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure software systems that support satellite mission planning, scheduling, command, control, and communications.
• Take shared ownership of critical production services, reducing single-threaded dependencies and improving operational resilience.

• Design and analyze spacecraft mechanisms, including:
• Serve as the technical lead for spacecraft mechanisms and pointing systems, driving architecture decisions, technical trades, and risk reduction activities.

• Spearhead the development of Umbra’s Defensive Cyber Operations and Continuous Monitoring capabilities.
• Enhance our capacity to ensure trustworthiness through the ongoing monitoring of both signature and behavioral indicators within our operational divisions on a daily basis.

• Manage personnel, oversee programmatic initiatives, and take accountability for the technical quality and schedule performance for a multi-disciplined team within the Space Systems Business Group.
• Support the professional growth and career development of spacecraft engineers, incorporating feedback from technical leadership.