Principal Systems Engineer, Space GPS Constellation

TrustPoint, Inc.; Virginia (IL); On-site; USD 175,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

TrustPoint, Inc. is building the world’s first commercial GPS system and seeks a Principal Systems Engineer to lead end-to-end integration across satellite, payload, ground, RF, timing and software systems.

You will own critical interfaces, manage interface control documents, and drive verification closure across multiple satellite generations to deliver a cohesive, flight-ready constellation.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of systems engineering experience at the principal or lead level.
• Experience owning and closing system-level error budgets, interfaces, and verification activities across multiple subsystems.
• Proven ability to drive technical execution and verification closure across peer organizations.
• Technical credibility to resolve cross-functional issues and hold owners accountable for system-level outcomes.
• Experience developing, managing, and maintaining interface control documents on active development or flight programs.
• Strong requirements decomposition, risk management, configuration management, and system-level trade studies.
• Must be a U.S. Person.

Responsibilities

• Own the whole-of-system error budget across satellite generations, ensuring subsystem-level performance rolls up to a coherent, verifiable system.
• Own and maintain the program's critical interface control documents across payload-to-bus, ground-to-payload, and related interfaces.
• Own configuration management for the program and manage relationship with the spacecraft bus vendor.
• Drive execution by coordinating the broader engineering team to produce verification evidence for system-level closure.
• Serve as the primary systems-integration authority across technical pillars during this program growth phase.
• Identify system-level risks early and drive decisions to closure, keeping requirements, interfaces, budgets, and verification aligned.

Skills

Systems engineering

Interface control

Error budgets

Configuration management

Verification closure

Requirements decomposition

Technical leadership

Job description

TrustPoint, Inc. is building the world’s first commercial GPS system and seeks a Principal Systems Engineer to lead end-to-end integration across satellite, payload, ground, RF, timing and software systems.

You will own critical interfaces, manage interface control documents, and drive verification closure across multiple satellite generations to deliver a cohesive, flight-ready constellation.