Spacecraft Operations Engineer – RPO & Mission Planning

Anduril Industries; Central City (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Colorado seeks a Spacecraft Operations Systems Engineer for RPO to own how our spacecraft plan, rehearse, and execute flight operations while those designs evolve with mission needs.

You will author flight rules, own the mission operations plans across LEOP to on-orbit operations, validate procedures on flatsats and testbeds, and coordinate with teams to meet schedules and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background, ideally in Aerospace Engineering, Astrodynamics, Computer Science, or another engineering field.
• 4+ years of professional spacecraft operations, mission planning, or flight dynamics experience.
• Direct RPO experience on a flown or near-flight mission: relative orbit design, proximity operations trajectory planning, maneuver planning and reconstruction, or close-approach execution.
• AI&T support, procedure validation, mission rehearsals, and operational readiness reviews.
• Clear written communication, including procedures, flight rules, and training material.

Responsibilities

• Author the flight rules and procedures that govern close approach: keep-out volume enforcement, go/no-go gates, abort and breakout criteria, custody handoffs, and conjunction screening against both the target and third parties.
• Own the mission operations plans and procedures for spacecraft programs across all phases, including LEOP, commissioning, on-orbit checkout, and operations.
• Work with AI&T as the operations voice, validating procedures and command sequences on flatsats and hardware-in-the-loop testbeds before they touch flight hardware.
• Feed operational constraints back into GNC, flight software, ground software, and comms design.
• Create and analyze the metrics used to debug and monitor vehicle and campaign performance.
• Support demanding schedules during ground testing, launch windows, and on-orbit operations.
• Work with other teams and government agencies to obtain required licenses (FCC, NOAA) and comply with regulations for operating spacecraft, including proximity operations coordination.
• Top Secret security clearance.

Skills

Spacecraft operations

Mission planning

Flight dynamics

RPO experience

Procedures validation

Education

Aerospace Engineering

Tools

Python

Linux

Job description

Anduril Industries in Colorado seeks a Spacecraft Operations Systems Engineer for RPO to own how our spacecraft plan, rehearse, and execute flight operations while those designs evolve with mission needs.

You will author flight rules, own the mission operations plans across LEOP to on-orbit operations, validate procedures on flatsats and testbeds, and coordinate with teams to meet schedules and regulatory requirements.