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Leads hardware and electrical integration for spacecraft testbeds, including facility design, configuration, maintenance, procurement, fabrication, system integration, and verification and validation testing. Troubleshoots electrical hardware and anomalous system behavior, scripts and debugs using DSATS and Python, manages technical baselines and engineering changes, and leads technical reviews while coordinating internal and external stakeholders.

Develop and test spacecraft autonomy and automated fault management systems, including onboard fault response, payload fault management architecture, stored command sequences, and verification activities. Execute and approve tests across flight software, space vehicle test beds, software simulators, and assembly integration environments. Support anomaly resolution, requirement sell-off, and generation of verification reports. The role requires substantial systems engineering experience and active SCI access or qualifying Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Designs mechanical ground support equipment for spacecraft integration, testing, and launch. Responsibilities include 3D CAD modeling, requirements definition, structural analysis, GD&T drafting, design reviews, fabrication support, proof load documentation, nonconformance resolution, and integration and test process development. The role supports vendors and end users in cleanroom and operational environments while coordinating with multidisciplinary teams.

Leads business development for space segment production and emerging space programs. Develops customer engagement, early-win, market shaping, capture, and pipeline strategies; researches opportunities and competitors; supports proposals, strategic briefings, bid/no-bid decisions, business acquisition processes, investments, and long-range planning. Requires collaboration with government customers, executives, technical teams, industry partners, and legislative stakeholders, along with frequent travel and active security clearance.

Supports launch vehicle integration by developing space-to-launch vehicle interface requirements, coordinating integrated analysis plans, performing analyses with launch service providers, and managing mission interface control documents and traceability. The role verifies mission interfaces, tracks requirements maturity and verification progress, develops metrics, and prepares launch readiness review inputs. Collaboration with customers, launch providers, and internal stakeholders is required.

Supports launch vehicle integration by developing interface requirements, interface control documents, traceability matrices, and integrated analysis plans. Performs coupled-load and thermal analyses with launch service providers, verifies mission interfaces, tracks requirements maturity and verification progress, manages metrics, and prepares launch readiness review inputs. Collaborates with customers, launch providers, and internal stakeholders to ensure successful space vehicle integration and launch.

Supports Flight Sciences technical excellence across Aeronautics Systems by developing discipline processes, technical manuals, training, tools, and digital solutions. Partners with technical owners, NG Fellows, program leaders, and geographically distributed engineering teams to maintain operating practices, process libraries, and models while promoting compliance and continuous improvement. Requires air vehicle flight sciences and controls execution experience in areas such as aerodynamics, GNC, propulsion, CFD, performance, or loads and dynamics. The role is geographically flexible across four California and Florida locations.

Develops EO/IR radiometric budgets, error models, SNR and calibration analyses for complex sensor systems. Performs detector, optics, data-rate, and performance trade studies; supports laboratory, ground, and flight testing; analyzes post-test data; and prepares technical documentation. The role also contributes to program planning, risk and cost assessments, stakeholder briefings, cross-functional leadership, and mentoring junior engineers.

Integrate and test the Forward Area Air Defense software system with sensors, weapons, and Army tactical interfaces. Develop and execute test scenarios and procedures, analyze interface and functionality issues, document problems and improvements, support defect resolution, verify system integration, and present test results to management and government customers. The role is performed onsite in Redondo Beach and requires 10–25% travel.

Design, build, integrate, test, install and maintain rack-based communications hardware and cabling in lab and field environments. Produce drawings and BOMs, perform signal/power analysis, verify systems, troubleshoot complex issues, support site integration and provide stakeholder briefings. On-site role requiring travel and active security clearance.