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Scale spacecraft production by developing industrial scaling plans, optimizing factory layouts and workflows, eliminating bottlenecks, and expanding assembly, integration, and test capabilities. Lead facility buildouts, equipment planning, infrastructure upgrades, capital investments, and operational readiness. Coordinate with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, and leadership to increase throughput, transition products into repeatable production, and deliver production capabilities in a rapidly growing environment.

Leads full-cycle executive and senior leadership recruiting across engineering, manufacturing, business operations, and corporate functions. Partners with executives and hiring managers to define hiring needs, develop targeted search strategies, engage passive candidates, assess leadership talent, manage candidate relationships, provide market intelligence, and lead offer negotiations. Requires extensive executive recruiting experience and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-growing, technically complex aerospace company.

Leads the EGSE engineering team responsible for designing, building, integrating, testing, and deploying electrical ground systems for spacecraft operations. Owns technical direction, modular hardware architectures, engineering standards, priorities, schedules, and team development. Collaborates with avionics, integration, test, launch operations, and COMSEC teams on interfaces, communications, power distribution, instrumentation, and security requirements. Oversees fabrication, verification, deployment, documentation, troubleshooting, and reliability improvements.

Leads engineers designing, integrating, deploying, and maintaining spacecraft ironbirds, flatsats, and HITL testbeds. Owns electrical and hardware architecture, avionics interfaces, instrumentation, schedules, resource plans, fabrication, commissioning, and troubleshooting. Collaborates with software, GNC, and avionics teams to support vehicle development and mission validation while standardizing reusable test hardware, documentation, and processes.

Owns the spacecraft software release process, coordinating plans, testing, quality standards, documentation, release artifacts, metrics, and cross-functional engineering delivery. The role manages release schedules and process improvements while using technical knowledge of build systems, CI/CD, test infrastructure, static analysis, code coverage, and software variants to ensure reliable releases across hardware platforms.

Own and execute internal communications programs, including All Hands, newsletters, leadership messaging, announcements, culture initiatives, and employee storytelling. Partner with executives, People Operations, Recruiting, Marketing, and Corporate Communications to align employees around company priorities and strengthen culture. Develop communications strategies, coordinate cross-functional initiatives, support recruiting and onboarding content, and measure engagement to continuously improve internal communications.

Designs, operates, and improves infrastructure, tooling, and automated workflows for software builds, testing, releases, and deployment to spacecraft and hardware-in-the-loop platforms. Responsibilities include CI/CD pipelines, artifact deployment, monitoring, logging, containerized environments, infrastructure as code, and test-site operations. The role collaborates with software and guidance, navigation, and control teams to support reliable spacecraft software development and testing.

Design, implement, verify, and integrate high-performance FPGA digital logic for space communication and processing systems. Responsibilities include HDL development, high-speed digital architecture, timing closure, clock-domain integration, AXI interfaces, FPGA clocking, testbench development, regression verification, and lab debugging. The engineer will collaborate with DSP, systems, and software teams on hardware architectures and algorithm implementation.

Lead the design, implementation, optimization, and verification of DSP algorithms for advanced communication systems and spacecraft. Responsibilities include symbol and carrier recovery, equalization, fixed-point modeling, MATLAB and Simulink simulation, FPGA hardware architecture collaboration, lab integration, system bring-up, and debugging. The role requires strong DSP and digital communications expertise, hardware implementation experience, and technical leadership.

Performs vehicle-level spacecraft testing and develops test equipment for fluid, mechanical, vacuum, environmental, and electrical systems. Owns test assets and campaigns, verifies flight hardware, conducts test operations, resolves technical issues, documents results, and improves automated acceptance testing. Requires hands-on aerospace hardware testing, engineering fundamentals, data analysis, laboratory experience, and the ability to manage multiple campaigns.