Lead Payload Electrical Engineer

Space Kinetic Corp.; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A venture-backed startup focused on national security is seeking a Lead Payload Electrical Engineer to work on-site in El Segundo, CA. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced prototyping environment and possess a solid understanding of spaceflight payloads and their interactions with the space environment. This role plays a key part in developing solutions for space superiority and missile defense.

Qualifications

• Experience with spaceflight payloads and space environment effects.
• Hands-on electrical design, testing, and integration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Work in a fast-paced prototyping environment.
• Understand spaceflight payloads and their environmental effects.

Job description

Overview

Who We Are: Space Kinetic is a cleared, venture-backed startup focused on addressing urgent national security priorities. Our goal is to deliver a suite of asymmetric capabilities for space superiority and missile defense leveraging our proprietary electromechanical deployment system, which enables the rapid deployment of low-cost payloads through space without firing a thruster. Space Kinetic is currently assembling its TRL-5 prototype. Our goal is to leverage this platform to provide the United States with a new tool for securing the space domain and catalyzing the emerging space economy.

What You’ll Do: This position will work on-site at our headquarters in El Segundo, CA. The Lead Payload Electrical Engineer will work in a fast-paced prototyping environment with an aggressive schedule toward flight and should have experience and a general understanding of spaceflight payloads and the effects of the space environment with a technical emphasis on: