Senior Mission Architect — Space Systems (Staff)

Impulsespace; Redondo Beach (CA); Vor Ort; USD 175.000 - 205.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Stock options

Medical, vision & dental

401(k) retirement plan

Zusammenfassung

Impulse Space is seeking a Staff Mission Architect to define mission-level logic guiding early architectures. You will transform vague customer inputs into defensible mission requirements that shape pursuit strategies and drive architecture development.

You will bridge Business Development with Program Management/Engineering, converting ambitions into measurable requirements and collaborating with AMCEs to evaluate concepts. Travel up to 25% with government customers.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 8+ years in aerospace/defense mission analysis or system-of-systems engineering.
• Ability to derive quantitative mission requirements from vague inputs.
• Proficiency with mission-level modeling tools and scripting (Python, MATLAB).
• Familiarity with payload performance modeling and C2 systems.
• Eligibility for U.S. security clearance; TS/SCI ability.

Aufgaben

• Lead mission-level analysis across payloads, constellations, ground systems, C2, cyber, and operational context to define mission success criteria and performance thresholds.
• Convert vague customer desires into quantitative 'small-r' requirements that guide downstream conceptual design.
• Develop and employ mission-level modeling and simulation tools for coverage analysis, NIIRS scoring, gap times, latency modeling, mission availability, constellation behavior, and resilience assessments.
• Produce derived requirements for mission elements such as sensitivity, ΔV envelopes, timeline constraints, communications/latency performance, revisit and coverage metrics.
• Partner with AMCEs to evaluate conceptual solutions against mission requirements; assess mission impact of tradeoffs, cost reductions, or performance adjustments.
• Act as the mission architecting lead during early capture phases — shaping mission definitions, requirement frameworks, evaluation criteria, and success metrics before vehicle or system concept formulation.
• Support Business Development by generating mission-analysis content for white papers, BAAs, RFIs, challenge submissions, and requirements-shaping discussions with government customers and partners.
• Conduct red-team-style assessments to identify mission weaknesses, operational risks, adversary constraints, and system-of-systems considerations that influence requirement prioritization.
• Ensure mission architectures incorporate realistic operational constraints such as ground station availability, crosslink integration, cyber/hardening implications, adversary counters, and resilience needs.
• Build reusable mission-analysis models and tools so requirements development compounds rather than restarts with each pursuit.
• Work with industry and government partners on analysis frameworks, tools, scenarios, and execution of mission analyses.

Kenntnisse

Mission analysis

Systems engineering

Analytical thinking

Technical writing

Python

MATLAB

Clearance TS/SCI

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Master’s degree or PhD in related field

Tools

STK

AGI Analysis Workbench

EO/IR performance tools

Jobbeschreibung

Impulse Space is seeking a Staff Mission Architect to define mission-level logic guiding early architectures. You will transform vague customer inputs into defensible mission requirements that shape pursuit strategies and drive architecture development.

You will bridge Business Development with Program Management/Engineering, converting ambitions into measurable requirements and collaborating with AMCEs to evaluate concepts. Travel up to 25% with government customers.