Spacecraft Performance Engineer: Data & Dashboards

Portalsystems; Bothell (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Portal Space Systems in Bothell, WA is seeking a Vehicle Performance Engineer to deliver an integrated view of spacecraft health and mission performance. You will connect analysis results, budgets, test data, and flight telemetry across disciplines while building intuitive dashboards.

The role focuses on data architecture, governance, and traceability, with responsibilities spanning data pipelines, visualization, and cross-disciplinary trade studies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, data science, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Define the data architecture, interfaces, update cadence, and governance needed to create a reliable integrated view of spacecraft performance.
• Integrate mass, power, energy, thermal, propulsion, delta-V, GNC, specific impulse, test telemetry, and other mission-performance datasets.
• Develop and maintain spacecraft performance dashboards and graphical user interfaces using Python-based tools, Grafana, or comparable technologies.
• Determine where automated or live data pipelines provide value and where controlled periodic imports are more appropriate.
• Work with subsystem owners to establish authoritative sources, common definitions, units, assumptions, metadata, and configuration traceability.
• Consolidate subsystem budgets and margins without replacing the technical ownership of the contributing disciplines.
• Identify missing, stale, inconsistent, or conflicting data and drive resolution with the appropriate owners.
• Create leadership-level indicators that communicate vehicle health, margin trends, readiness, and mission capability for spacecraft on the ground and in orbit.
• Perform high-level cross-disciplinary trade studies, sensitivity analyses, and “what-if” assessments using controlled source data.
• Compare predictions with test and flight results and highlight performance changes, emerging risks, or margin erosion.
• Build reusable data-processing, validation, visualization, and reporting tools.
• Provide integrated performance products for design reviews, test campaigns, qualification or acceptance reviews, flight readiness, and on-orbit operations.
• Document data lineage, calculation logic, assumptions, tool configuration, and known limitations so results are reproducible and auditable.

Skills

Python

Data visualization

Grafana

SQL

APIs

Telemetry pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, data science, or a related technical discipline.

Tools

pandas

Plotly

Dash

Streamlit

Job description

Portal Space Systems in Bothell, WA is seeking a Vehicle Performance Engineer to deliver an integrated view of spacecraft health and mission performance. You will connect analysis results, budgets, test data, and flight telemetry across disciplines while building intuitive dashboards.

The role focuses on data architecture, governance, and traceability, with responsibilities spanning data pipelines, visualization, and cross-disciplinary trade studies.