Senior Power Systems Engineer for Space Missions (Remote)

Voyager Technologies; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Voyager Technologies is seeking a Senior Electrical Power Systems Engineer to help shape the future of lunar technologies and missions. You will define end-to-end mission concepts for NASA, government, and commercial customers, directly influencing architectures powering future lunar pursuits.

This role is based in Pittsburgh, PA and can be onsite or remote, offering collaboration across hardware and software domains and opportunities to advance space technologies.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in space system development, systems engineering, structure/thermal design and analysis, avionics, power systems, propulsion, orbital mechanics, electrical systems, mechanical & fluid systems, software & controls, modeling & simulation, and/or manufacturing.
• Experience developing technical content for proposals and external customer presentations.
• Experience authoring and decomposing mission and system-level requirements.
• Strong understanding of the launch, space, and lunar environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review new concepts and designs of lunar landers, rovers, surface power systems, and spacecraft.
• Support the development and technical content creation for B&P, R&D, or mission opportunities.
• Develop the system-level technical vision for new products - connecting customer needs with feasible, high-performing solutions across hardware and software domains.
• Develop and perform trade studies to support technical, business, and/or programmatic actions and decision-making.
• Perform power and avionics design and analysis for all mission concepts, right-sizing the power architecture to meet end-to-end mission objectives and requirements.
• Contribute to programmatic topics such as schedules, resourcing, and budgets estimations.
• Communicate with other engineering disciplines, partners, customers, and vendors to resolve technical risks and challenges.
• Occasionally participate in visits and technical interchange meetings with customer and partner organizations.
• Translate abstract customer requirements into actionable product goals and system architectures that can be presented to customers, utilized in proposals, and marketed to stakeholders.
• Participate in cross functional team meetings to ensure engineering solutions comply with mission and business needs and company technology roadmap.

Skills

Space systems

Systems engineering

Structure/thermal design

Avionics

Power systems

Propulsion

Orbital mechanics

Electrical systems

Software & controls

Modeling & simulation

Manufacturing

Automation scripting

Proposal content experience

Requirements decomposition

Launch and lunar environment knowledge

Education

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering or Systems Engineering

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Job description

Voyager Technologies is seeking a Senior Electrical Power Systems Engineer to help shape the future of lunar technologies and missions. You will define end-to-end mission concepts for NASA, government, and commercial customers, directly influencing architectures powering future lunar pursuits.

This role is based in Pittsburgh, PA and can be onsite or remote, offering collaboration across hardware and software domains and opportunities to advance space technologies.