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Lead strategic sourcing and supplier management for spacecraft production: supplier qualification and onboarding, RFQs and negotiations, sourcing strategies, BOM management in PLM/ERP, KPI/SLA definition, cost optimization, inventory oversight, logistics coordination, and compliance with AS9100 and ITAR.

Design and develop opto-mechanical hardware for spacecraft optical systems, including lens barrels, telescope structures, mounts, baffles, and precision mechanisms. Create CAD models, drawings, GD&T, BOMs, and test fixtures while collaborating with optical engineers to ensure alignment, stability, manufacturability, and qualification for launch and on-orbit environments.

Design, develop, integrate, and verify real-time flight software for GNC, command/telemetry, mission sequencing, autonomy, fault management, and closed-loop control. Implement deterministic features in an RTOS/embedded Linux environment, develop anomaly detection/mitigation, participate in code reviews, and support ground integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.

Perform structural and thermal analysis and develop/maintain finite element models for optical flight hardware. Ensure optical alignment and survivability through launch, thermal, and vibration environments. Support STOP analysis with optical engineers to meet alignment sensitivity, detector tolerances, boresight stability, wavefront error, and pointing requirements.

Lead architecture and end-to-end modeling of free-space optical communications links. Build and maintain physics-based models (Python/MATLAB), perform trade studies on aperture, power, modulation, pointing, and atmospheric effects, quantify link margin and data rate, and translate results into requirements for optical, electrical, GNC, software, mechanical, and test teams.

Design, implement, and maintain test and automation software for data acquisition, hardware control, and user-facing GUIs. Collaborate with test operations through the full test lifecycle: design, integration, deployment, debugging, and support. Review and write code, work onsite, and deliver innovative solutions for testing operations.

Design and deliver spacecraft solenoid valves from concept through production: create CAD models and drawings, perform fluid/thermal/structural/magnetic analysis, support procurement, fabrication, assembly, and test, and resolve technical issues.

Design, deploy, and own deterministic, time-synchronized infrastructure for hardware test facilities. Lead test stand deployments, manage networking (PTP/NTP), servers, virtualization, storage, hybrid cloud, IaC, backup/recovery, and security alignment with enterprise standards while supporting CI/CD and test operations.

Design, build, and maintain standardized electrical test hardware (DAQ, controls, power distribution, enclosures). Create schematics, BOMs, wiring diagrams, and documentation. Support procurement, fabrication, integration, commissioning, and troubleshooting. Collaborate with test ops, software automation, and IT for deployment and configuration of test assets.

Design, implement, and verify GNC algorithms and software for spacecraft (LEO/GEO, upper stages, landers). Develop flight and simulation code, generate verification data, create reusable tools, resolve technical issues, and communicate designs. Mentor others and define GNC best practices for senior roles.