Lead Payload Engineer for Space Missions

Emploive; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Antares seeks a technical leader to drive the development of payloads for space and defense missions. You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to lab prototyping, and collaborate with Mission Architects to integrate payloads into comprehensive mission concepts.

You will guide simulations, engineering trade-offs, and licensing with USG and national labs, while coordinating with diverse teams and customers to ensure mission success.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s in an engineering discipline or physics.
• 10+ years of technical experience, 5+ years of leadership experience on a project or research team.
• Experience working with the Department of Defense (DOW), Department of Energy (DOE), and Intelligence Community.
• Knowledge of space operations, payload concepts, and physics behind relevant sensing mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of technical product development associated with Antares payloads. Everything from initial ideation and conceptual design to prototyping efforts in the laboratory.
• Regularly build simulation tools and models to develop payload concepts and work directly with Mission Architect on integrating into holistic mission concepts with nuclear and non-nuclear space vehicles.
• Ideate and propose new development programs to DOW, NASA, IC and DOE funding sources
• Perform market research on possible use cases and operational concepts for future Antares payload systems
• Build out robust processes around licensing technologies from USG and National Laboratory ecosystems, including internal investment theses on payload concepts to pursue
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure end-to-end mission success and craft deliverables for customer programs
• Plan and drive internal and external reviews to ensure alignment between Antares engineering teams and external stakeholders

Skills

Leadership experience

DOD/DOE/IC experience

Space operations knowledge

First-principles reasoning

Payload concepts

Education

PhD or Master’s in engineering or physics

Job description

Antares seeks a technical leader to drive the development of payloads for space and defense missions. You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to lab prototyping, and collaborate with Mission Architects to integrate payloads into comprehensive mission concepts.

You will guide simulations, engineering trade-offs, and licensing with USG and national labs, while coordinating with diverse teams and customers to ensure mission success.