Spacecraft Systems Engineer, Special Programs

Anduril Industries; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Chantilly, VA is seeking System Engineers to join the Space Special Programs team. You will support the full life cycle of design, development, integration & test for spacecraft and associated systems including maintaining and managing requirements, risks, budgets, and trade studies; interfacing with the other spacecraft disciplines to ensure the system meets requirements and goals.

The engineering team will gain experience across requirements development, mission design,

Qualifications

• B.S. in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, computer science or similar engineering or technical field.
• 2-8 years of professional experience, in hardware-based product development.
• Basic understanding of design techniques to meet space flight mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing requirements.
• Ability to generate comprehensive block diagrams and decompose a system into its requirements.
• Familiarity with standard interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, MIPI CSI-2, etc.
• Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies.
• Familiarity with basic spacecraft design principles and subsystems.
• Ability to determine manage work assignments based on prioritized direction from management, near-term goals, and day-to-day progress.
• Familiarity with managing budgets (mass, power, error, link, etc) and creating models (power, data usage, propellant, etc).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with others.
• Ability to work within our company and team culture and take ownership of the tasks assigned to you.
• Willing to listen and learn from experts but still speak up when you have ideas.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Work with a cross-functional team to design market leading hardware products.
• Help reach product maturity through rapid prototyping, design verification, and qualification activities.
• Learn and apply modern space-flight hardware design standards and guidelines to create high-reliability, highly manufacturable systems.
• Develop, track, and maintain system requirements and work with other disciplines to assure the overall system as well as subsystems are meeting, testing, and verifying compliance with the requirements.
• Define, track, and maintain program risks and risk burn-down plans.
• Define, track, and maintain system budgets.
• Participate with the rest of the team in following internal guidelines and best practices for space flight hardware design, test, manufacture, and operations.
• Participate in peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews and help develop customer-facing system design documentation and presentations.
• Help drive development, integration and test activities to meet schedule.
• Work in a fast-paced environment, having to juggle multiple concurrent projects and customers.

Skills

Communication

Team collaboration

Systems thinking

Budgeting

Education

B.S. in aerospace / mechanical / electrical / computer science or related field

Tools

Ethernet/CAN/I2C/SPI/PCIe/MIPI CSI-2

MCU/CPU/FPGA devices

Job description

Anduril Industries in Chantilly, VA is seeking System Engineers to join the Space Special Programs team. You will support the full life cycle of design, development, integration & test for spacecraft and associated systems including maintaining and managing requirements, risks, budgets, and trade studies; interfacing with the other spacecraft disciplines to ensure the system meets requirements and goals.

The engineering team will gain experience across requirements development, mission design,