MK1 Payload Responsible Engineer - Lunar Permanence Verified today
About the Role
As Payload Responsible Engineer for the MK1 Lunar Lander Vehicle Engineering team, you will be the primary technical interface between the payload customer and vehicle engineering. You will own end-to-end payload integration from interface definition through delivery on the lunar surface, shaping design, development, integration, and verification to ensure mission success.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead integration, test, and verification of payload with vehicle
- Own payload-vehicle requirements and Interface Control Documents (ICD)
- Create and execute verification plans, delivering verification evidence against requirements
- Develop and deliver test plans defining resources, dependencies, and sequencing for integrated payload and vehicle tests
- Own test scope, objective definition, and success criteria for integrated tests
- Develop test matrices and configuration requirements for Vehicle Test Bed (VTB) and flight vehicle integration campaigns
- Prepare Test Integration Readiness Reviews (TIRRs) to support VTB dry-runs
- Own end-to-end test planning and post-execution data analysis for Hardware-Software Integration (HSI) test campaigns
- Lead response to integrated test findings, including troubleshooting, anomaly disposition, tracking, and status reporting
- Establish and maintain traceability between requirements, interfaces, and testing
- Evaluate and communicate impacts of proposed interface changes to vehicle and customer stakeholders
- Serve as primary technical point of contact for payload customer, leading interface negotiations and resolving technical discrepancies
- Define and manage mechanical, electrical, thermal, data, and RF payload-vehicle interfaces through mission lifecycle
- Prepare and present material for program reviews and customer meetings as payload integration technical authority
- Coordinate with vehicle subsystem teams to assess payload impacts and drive resolution of cross-discipline integration issues
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or related field
- 5 or more years of Systems Engineering experience on flight hardware programs with demonstrated ownership of interface requirements and ICDs
- Detailed knowledge of space systems design, interfaces, and requirements including mechanical, electrical, thermal, data, and RF
- Experience planning and executing integration testing, including defining test objectives and success criteria, leading anomaly investigations, and driving resolution
- Experience with spacecraft payload integration with NASA or commercial payload customers, including interface definition, test, and verification
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information effectively to stakeholders including customers, subsystem engineers, and program leadership
- U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading technical reviews for a complex spaceflight or aviation system
- Experience with design and construction standards for space systems
- Experience with lunar, deep space, or planetary missions
- Expertise with requirements management and systems engineering tools
- Expertise in one or more payload interface disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, thermal, data, or RF
Compensation
Base Pay Range:
- CO applicants: $110,938.00 - $155,312.85
- WA applicants: $121,023.00 - $169,432.20
- Other site ranges may differ
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability
- 401(k) with company match up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Stock options for all regular employees (20+ hours/week)
- Paid Time Off: up to 4 weeks per year based on scheduled hours, plus up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Bonus eligibility dependent on role type and job level