Mission Systems Payload Integration Engineer

InvestedintheMission; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Mission Integration Engineer for Special Programs to own the payload-to-platform interface from requirements through integrated test, flight, and on-orbit operations, coordinating with vehicle engineering, structures, avionics, thermal, software, and flight reliability to verify the interface and ensure mission safety.

You will write and maintain interface control documentation, allocate and verify requirements, run interface trades, and drive non-compliances

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or STEM discipline.
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret SCI clearance.
• Experience applying systems engineering methods (requirements, interfaces, verification, or integration and test).
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the payload-to-platform ICD: define, baseline, and configuration-control mechanical, electrical, data, and thermal interfaces.
• Allocate customer and vehicle requirements to the interface; maintain traceability through analysis, test, and inspection.
• Evaluate payload design against platform constraints and environments (static, dynamic, thermal, electromagnetic) for launch, on-orbit, and re-entry.
• Lead interface trades (mass, volume, keep-out, loads, power, thermal, EMI/EMC, timeline) and document the technical basis.
• Disposition interface non-compliances with engineering: waiver, redesign, or operational constraint, including work-around plans where required.
• Define and support integrated test: interface checkout, EGSE, mate/demate, environmental test correlation, and end-to-end mission timeline.
• Build and maintain the integrated mission CONOPs (on-orbit operations) with payload, vehicle, and operations teams.
• Identify technical risk at the payload-platform boundary, including Do No Harm to the vehicle and to co-manifested payloads; drive mitigations to closure.
• Support design reviews, test readiness, and flight readiness with evidence of interface compliance—not as a customer-facing facilitator, as the responsible engineer for the interface.
• Communicate interface status, open items, and technical decisions to payload providers and internal engineering teams.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written technical

Experience applying systems engenharia

Education

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or STEM discipline

Master’s degree in an engineering discipline

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Mission Integration Engineer for Special Programs to own the payload-to-platform interface from requirements through integrated test, flight, and on-orbit operations, coordinating with vehicle engineering, structures, avionics, thermal, software, and flight reliability to verify the interface and ensure mission safety.

You will write and maintain interface control documentation, allocate and verify requirements, run interface trades, and drive non-compliances