Lead Spacecraft Systems Architect - Equity & Impact

Stoke Space; Kent (WA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 393,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity – stock options for regular, FT

Company-paid life and disability保险

401(k) plan with employer match

Holidays – 10 days

On-site gym or wellness stipend

Dog friendly offices

Job summary

Stoke Space is seeking a Spacecraft System Architect Lead to shape early architecture for Nova, our fully reusable launch vehicle. You will translate customer goals into a product breakdown, perform cross-disciplinary trades, and own architecture through design, test, flight and on-orbit operations.

You will lead design decisions across propulsion, GNC, power, thermal, structures, avionics and software, partnering with external subsystems and growing the engineering team as the program matures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering, physics or a related field.
• 10+ years of spacecraft or launch vehicle engineering experience.
• Experience as chief engineer, system architect, vehicle lead or equivalent accountable technical role on a spacecraft or stage.
• Exceptional command of fundamentals in structures, propulsion, thermal, power, GNC, avionics or software.

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 the early cross-disciplinary trades (propulsion, GNC, power, thermal, structures, avionics, software, ground) with limited information, 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

Architectural decisions

Cross-disciplinary work

Communication skills

Self-directed

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering, physics or related field

Job description

Stoke Space is seeking a Spacecraft System Architect Lead to shape early architecture for Nova, our fully reusable launch vehicle. You will translate customer goals into a product breakdown, perform cross-disciplinary trades, and own architecture through design, test, flight and on-orbit operations.

You will lead design decisions across propulsion, GNC, power, thermal, structures, avionics and software, partnering with external subsystems and growing the engineering team as the program matures.