Founding Spacecraft CTO — Hands-On Architect

EVONA; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

EVONA is seeking a hands-on Founding CTO to own the technical direction of a spaceflight hardware platform, including an orbital laboratory system. You will lead architecture, design and flight readiness while growing a multidisciplinary engineering team.

This is a founding executive role with substantial ownership, requiring deep flight-hardware experience and the ability to communicate strategy to customers and investors as the company scales.

Qualifications

• 8–15+ years of spacecraft, launch vehicle or complex flight-hardware engineering experience.
• Experience taking hardware through multiple stages: design, analysis, manufacturing, integration, qualification/test and flight.
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to make technical decisions beyond a single engineering discipline.
• Experience within a fast-moving NewSpace, launch, satellite or similarly hardware-intensive environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall technical architecture and engineering direction of the spacecraft and orbital laboratory platform.
• Remain deeply involved in engineering during the next phase of spacecraft development, test and flight.
• Lead technical decisions across structures, thermal, avionics, power, GNC, software, payloads and spacecraft integration.
• Drive hardware from concept to design, build, qualification, integration, launch and operations.
• Build and develop a multidisciplinary engineering organisation as the company scales.
• Establish engineering processes to move quickly without compromising mission success.
• Collaborate with the CEO on product roadmap, technical strategy and major company decisions.
• Grow into external responsibilities of a CTO, representing technology to customers, partners and investors.

Skills

Spacecraft engineering

Technical leadership

Flight hardware design

Systems thinking

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Job description

EVONA is seeking a hands-on Founding CTO to own the technical direction of a spaceflight hardware platform, including an orbital laboratory system. You will lead architecture, design and flight readiness while growing a multidisciplinary engineering team.

This is a founding executive role with substantial ownership, requiring deep flight-hardware experience and the ability to communicate strategy to customers and investors as the company scales.