Senior Space Systems Architect & Program Chief Engineer

Telemetry Today LLC; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health Insurance

Retirement Plans

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Emotional Wellbeing

Professional Development

Team Building Activities

Job summary

Turion Space seeks a Program Chief Engineer to act as the technical lead for missions relying on highly maneuverable and agile small satellites, beginning with GEO Space Domain Awareness. You will own the architecture and baseline across the mission, ensuring requirements, traceability, and verification meet customer and mission success criteria.

Leading teams through SRR to PSR and post-launch operations, you will define CONOPS, manage budgets, and drive cross-disciplinary collaboration with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of experience in spacecraft systems engineering or spacecraft design, with hands-on experience in satellite design and integration, OR 8+ years of experience in relevant mission areas.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a Chief Program Engineer or lead systems engineer on a complete spacecraft program
• Deep expertise in requirements derivation, decomposition, and traceability from mission level through subsystems
• Proven ability to own and maintain all system-level budgets (mass, power, delta-V, pointing, link, data) across the full project lifecycle
• Experience authoring and managing compliance documentation and requirements traceability artifacts for customers
• Strong track record leading teams through formal technical milestones (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR)
• Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead and authority for assigned programs, owning end-to-end satellite architecture and ensuring appropriate technical progress throughout the program lifecycle
• Drive resolution of complex cross-disciplinary technical issues, making authoritative architectural decisions that balance performance, cost, and schedule
• Lead teams through all technical milestones including, SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and PSR, and post-launch operations
• Interact directly with customers and suppliers as the primary technical point of contact to ensure mission success
• Own and maintain system-level budgets ensuring the technical baseline demonstrably meets requirements and technical performance measures
• Define and refine mission CONOPS, translating operational needs into rigorous system-level requirements
• Lead derivation and maintenance of system requirements, ensuring full traceability from mission-level objectives through system, subsystem, and component requirements
• Ensure requirements decomposition is executed correctly and traceability is maintained throughout the baseline
• Establish and maintain robust requirements traceability frameworks to satisfy customer compliance documentation expectations
• Author and oversee Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and all systems engineering documentation required for program compliance
• Define and execute verification and validation plans at system and subsystem levels
• Track system compliance and overall performance against mission needs, proactively identifying and resolving gaps
• Provide top-level technical leadership across the entire mission lifecycle, including space and ground segments
• Collaborate with and guide multi-disciplinary engineering experts across all subsystems
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure mission CONOPS alignment and technical coherence
• Mentor senior and mid-level systems engineers, elevating team-wide systems engineering discipline

Skills

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

Requirements derivation

Traceability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field

Tools

MBSE Cameo

Capella

Innoslate

Python

MATLAB

STK

GMAT

FreeFlyer

Job description

Turion Space seeks a Program Chief Engineer to act as the technical lead for missions relying on highly maneuverable and agile small satellites, beginning with GEO Space Domain Awareness. You will own the architecture and baseline across the mission, ensuring requirements, traceability, and verification meet customer and mission success criteria.

Leading teams through SRR to PSR and post-launch operations, you will define CONOPS, manage budgets, and drive cross-disciplinary collaboration with