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As a Technical Program Manager, you'll lead technical discussions, define mission concepts, and ensure alignment with technology offerings while collaborating with engineering teams.

Responsible for developing integration planning and satellite build flows, optimizing build efficiency, and collaborating across multiple teams to ensure on-schedule delivery of satellite builds.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop software for satellite operations, collaborate on mission architecture, and mentor engineers.

Collaborate to design and implement automation systems for production, ensuring efficiency and reliability in the manufacturing process.

Lead certification, verification, and execution for spacecraft payload and launch integration. Serve as K2's primary liaison with launch and payload providers, manage readiness reviews, licensing, insurance, and contracts, and drive process improvements and lessons learned to ensure successful launch outcomes.

Lead and build a supplier development engineering team to qualify and mature suppliers for high-rate satellite production. Define supplier qualification and audit processes, manage PPAP, lead containments and corrective actions, drive supplier quality improvement, and coordinate with engineering, manufacturing, and procurement to meet product, delivery, and cost goals.

Own supplier development for mechanical commodities: assess supplier capabilities, manage PPAP and production readiness, lead containments and corrective actions, drive supplier quality improvements, and align production roadmaps with engineering, manufacturing, and procurement to meet product quality, delivery, and cost targets.

Lead analytics for enterprise systems to convert operational data into actionable insights. Build automated reports, dashboards, and data pipelines using SQL, Python, Snowflake, and BI tools. Partner with Manufacturing, Finance, and Engineering to analyze production drivers, support regulatory and financial reporting, improve data QC, and document data tools and workflows.

Lead development and execution of reliability strategies, models, and testing (HALT/HASS/ALT/TVAC) to meet vehicle and constellation-level availability targets. Integrate reliability analyses with design, manufacturing, and risk management; drive root-cause investigations and corrective actions; mentor junior engineers and scale reliability practices for high-volume satellite production.

Lead mission-level engineering for national security programs: define and negotiate mission concepts, perform payload-to-bus compatibility and architecture studies, coordinate cross-functional engineering teams, manage customer technical engagements, and produce system-level technical documentation and requirements.