Founding Spacecraft Systems Architect Lead

stokespacetechnologies; Kent (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Stoke Space Technologies in Kent, WA is seeking a Spacecraft System Architect Lead to shape a new Nova program. You will translate customer needs into system concepts, drive ConOps, and own the architecture from design reviews through flight and on-orbit operations.

You will lead multidisciplinary trades, determine interfaces and manage external partners, while growing the engineering team and guiding schedule, cost, and risk through first flight.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering, physics or related field.
• 10+ years of spacecraft or launch vehicle engineering experience, including at least one spacecraft carried from concept through on-orbit operations.
• Experience as chief engineer, system architect, vehicle lead or equivalent accountable technical role on a spacecraft or stage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to lead and to follow.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer and business objectives into system concepts, ConOps, functional capabilities and system requirements for the group's products.
• Develop the product breakdown and perform first-order analysis across every discipline to size the system and estimate mass, power, cost and performance with incomplete information.
• Make early cross-disciplinary trades and carry them through architecture and design reviews.
• Establish design margins, reliability targets and an incremental development path from first demonstration to production.
• Define interfaces to Nova and to customer systems; select and manage external partners for major subsystems, owning requirements, interface control and acceptance.
• Support the full product lifecycle: detailed design, integration, test, launch and on-orbit operations; feed lessons learned back into the next architecture.
• Be the technical face of the product with customers and partners alongside Stoke's business development team.
• Act as program lead for schedule, budget and risk through first flight, and help grow the engineering team as the product matures.

Skills

Aerospace engineering

System architecture

Propulsion

GNC

Avionics

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in aerospace/ME/physics

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Stoke Space Technologies in Kent, WA is seeking a Spacecraft System Architect Lead to shape a new Nova program. You will translate customer needs into system concepts, drive ConOps, and own the architecture from design reviews through flight and on-orbit operations.

You will lead multidisciplinary trades, determine interfaces and manage external partners, while growing the engineering team and guiding schedule, cost, and risk through first flight.