Manufacturing · Manufacturing
Satellite Manufacturing Engineer
Design repeatable production, tooling, work instructions and quality controls for scalable spacecraft and payload assembly.
Role mandate
Build the capability for the era ahead.
This team member will combine subject-matter depth, sound judgment and disciplined execution to move the mission from architecture to measurable results.
Responsibilities
- Own the Manufacturing workstream for Satellite Manufacturing Engineer and deliver measurable technical or operating outcomes.
- Own requirements, interfaces, performance budgets and verification for flight and ground systems.
- Coordinate hardware, software, payload, bus, network and mission-operation dependencies.
- Drive design reviews, risk retirement, integration and readiness through the mission lifecycle.
Required qualifications
- Engineering experience with spacecraft, payloads, RF systems, avionics, antennas or ground systems.
- Working knowledge of requirements management, interface control and verification.
- Ability to perform disciplined analysis and communicate technical risk.
Preferred experience
- Experience taking flight hardware or mission systems through qualification and operations.
- Familiarity with constellation, optical-link or quantum-communications programs.
Scientific and technical requirements
Physics, mathematics and engineering foundations
- Verification engineering, reliability statistics, vibration/acoustics, thermal-vacuum physics, EMC, radiation effects, quality and configuration control.
- Probability distributions, confidence intervals, Weibull/exponential life models, uncertainty and root-cause analysis.
Mathematics and working equations
- For constant hazard λ, R(t) = e^(−λt) and MTBF = 1/λ; justify independence and mission-profile assumptions.
- Random vibration uses acceleration power spectral density and integrated Grms; structural response is evaluated through transfer functions and modal models.
- Thermal-vacuum balance uses conductive and radiative heat equations; radiation assurance closes TID, displacement damage and SEE rates with margin.
- Failure-mode risk priority and fault-tree probability must preserve traceability to evidence and common-cause dependencies.
Hardware, flight and infrastructure components
- Flight and ground-support equipment, harnesses, connectors, mechanical fixtures, cleanroom controls, simulators, EGSE and calibrated instrumentation.
- Thermal-vacuum chamber, shaker, acoustic facility, shock equipment, EMC chamber, radiation sources/beam facilities and non-destructive inspection tools.
Software, laboratory and analysis tools
- Requirements/test management, configuration and nonconformance systems, statistical analysis, FRACAS, FMEA/FMECA and fault-tree software.
- Automated test equipment, data acquisition, metrology, contamination monitoring and manufacturing execution/traceability systems.
Verification and mission skills
- Control procedures, configuration, calibration, workmanship, test limits, redlines, anomalies, retest logic and objective acceptance evidence.
- Demonstrate interface compatibility and mission readiness from component qualification through system acceptance and launch-site operations.
Authoritative technical references
The hiring sequence will follow operating milestones and project requirements. The position may begin through advisory, consulting or project-based work before moving into a full-time role.
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