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Conducts GNSS and LEO-PNT analysis, develops and evaluates positioning and timing systems, designs live-sky test campaigns, validates signals using laboratory and field equipment, and prepares technical reports, white papers, presentations, and documentation. The role supports precision GNSS corrections, UTC traceability, hardware testing, and rapid-turnaround research assessments while collaborating across product and engineering teams.

Leads the design, layout, routing, prototyping, testing, and production transition of RFSoC-based mixed-signal electronics for space systems. Integrates RF, analog, digital, clocking, power, and high-speed interfaces while ensuring signal integrity, manufacturability, thermal performance, reliability, and space qualification. Collaborates with RF, FPGA, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, and external teams, supports environmental testing, and applies aerospace design standards and mission-critical hardware practices.

Own mechanical and environmental testing across the spacecraft lifecycle, including materials and component testing, vibration campaigns, thermal vacuum testing, qualification, and verification. Develop fixtures, instrumentation, procedures, and data acquisition systems; analyze test data, resolve anomalies, and drive design improvements. Collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, vendors, and test facilities while establishing scalable spacecraft test capabilities and standards.

Own PCBA acceptance, validation, and functional testing from receiving through production release. Define digital inspection procedures, qualify test fixtures and instrumentation, manage nonconformances and supplier corrective actions, validate measurement systems, analyze quality and yield data, support DFM improvements, and mentor manufacturing personnel. The role partners with quality, supply chain, electrical design, systems engineering, contract manufacturers, technicians, and suppliers to establish reliable flight-hardware production processes.

Own software program execution across navigation services, mission operations, and flight software. Manage schedules, releases, dependencies, risks, cross-functional coordination, reporting, and software-hardware interfaces. Build lightweight automation, tooling, integrations, and reporting systems while supporting development through live and on-orbit operations. The role requires software fluency, hardware-adjacent experience, strong systems thinking, and the ability to coordinate complex aerospace programs.

Leads the architecture, delivery, verification, and on-orbit support of embedded flight software for a satellite constellation. Manages and grows the flight software organization, establishes scalable development and quality processes, coordinates with multidisciplinary engineering teams, and drives technical strategy, reliability, resource planning, and delivery across satellite programs.

Designs and automates cloud security architecture, guardrails, IAM, zero-trust controls, and compliance across AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD pipelines. Conducts threat modeling and security assessments, monitors cloud threats, supports incident response, and builds self-service security tools that enable engineering teams to work securely. The role partners with platform, DevOps, SRE, architecture, and enterprise security teams.

Develop, validate, and maintain high-fidelity six-degree-of-freedom spacecraft digital twins and flexible-body models. Build physics-based models for dynamics, sensors, actuators, and disturbances; apply system identification, derive linear approximations, and support control design, Monte Carlo analysis, and HIL/SIL testing through model-based development and verification.

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate testing, manage infrastructure, and improve build processes for high-quality software releases.

The Build & Release Software Engineer will design and optimize build systems, manage CI/CD workflows, and improve software development processes for satellite systems using C++ in embedded Linux environments.