Senior Spaceborne Systems Architect

EVONA; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Generous PTO

Employee perks

Job summary

EVONA in Irvine, CA is seeking an experienced System Engineer to lead the systems engineering lifecycle for next‑generation spaceborne radar payloads, defining architecture, managing requirements, and driving verification and flight readiness from concept through launch.

You will collaborate with RF, digital, mechanical, software, and program teams to translate mission needs into robust, flight‑ready space systems while balancing performance, reliability, manufacturability, and schedule.

Qualifications

• Lead the systems engineering lifecycle for spaceborne radar payloads from concept through flight readiness.
• Decompose requirements and maintain traceability across subsystems and interfaces.
• Perform FMEA and reliability analyses for flight hardware and high‑reliability systems.
• Develop and verify ICDs and device interfaces for avionics and subsystems.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the payload system architecture including avionics and subsystem interfaces.
• Decompose mission requirements into subsystem specs with full traceability through verification.
• Lead FMEA and reliability assessments and develop mitigation strategies.
• Design FDIR strategies, safe modes, and anomaly response concepts for mission operations.
• Establish budgets for mass, power, thermal, data rate, and comms links.
• Own the V&V strategy mapping requirements to tests, analyses, inspections, and demonstrations.
• Develop concepts of operations (ConOps) for orbit operations and ground interfaces.
• Collaborate with software to align flight software architecture and telemetry definitions.
• Translate product roadmaps into system-level technical requirements and architecture decisions.
• Prepare technical documentation for formal reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, MRR, FRR).
• Perform system trade studies and budget analyses to optimize cost and manufacturability.

Skills

Systems engineering

FMEA

Requirements management

V&V planning

Interface control

Radar systems

Embedded software

System architecture

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Master's in Electrical/Aerospace Eng

Tools

SpaceWire

MIL-STD-1553

FPGA

DO-178

Job description

EVONA in Irvine, CA is seeking an experienced System Engineer to lead the systems engineering lifecycle for next‑generation spaceborne radar payloads, defining architecture, managing requirements, and driving verification and flight readiness from concept through launch.

You will collaborate with RF, digital, mechanical, software, and program teams to translate mission needs into robust, flight‑ready space systems while balancing performance, reliability, manufacturability, and schedule.