MK1 Payload Responsible Engineer - Lunar Permanence Verified today
The Role
As Payload Responsible Engineer for the MK1 Lunar Lander Vehicle Engineering team, you are the primary technical interface between payload customers and vehicle engineering. You own end-to-end payload integration, shaping design, development, integration, and verification to ensure mission success.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead integration, test, and verification of payload with the vehicle
- Own payload-vehicle requirements, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and traceability
- Create and execute verification plans, delivering evidence against requirements
- Develop and deliver test plans defining resources, dependencies, and sequencing
- Own test scope, objectives, and success criteria for integrated payload and vehicle tests
- Develop test matrices and configuration requirements for Vehicle Test Bed and flight vehicle integration campaigns
- Prepare Test Integration Readiness Reviews to support Vehicle Test Bed dry-runs
- Own end-to-end test planning and post-execution data analysis for Hardware-Software Integration test campaigns
- Lead response to integrated test findings, including troubleshooting and anomaly disposition
- Establish and maintain traceability between requirements, interfaces, and testing
- Evaluate and communicate impacts of proposed interface changes to stakeholders
- Serve as primary technical point of contact for payload customers, leading interface negotiations and resolving technical discrepancies
- Define and manage mechanical, electrical, thermal, data, and RF payload-vehicle interfaces through the mission lifecycle
- Prepare and present material for program reviews and customer meetings
- Coordinate with vehicle subsystem teams to assess payload impacts and resolve cross-discipline integration issues
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or related field
- 5+ 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 customers, subsystem engineers, and program leadership
- Must be a 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 complex spaceflight or aviation systems
- 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 varies by location:
- CO applicants: $110,938 to $155,312.85 per year
- WA applicants: $121,023 to $169,432.20 per year
- Other site ranges may differ
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 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 per week)
- Up to four weeks paid time off per year, plus up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Eligibility for performance bonuses based on role type and job level
Background Check
Required for all positions: Blue's Standard Background Check. Additional checks may apply based on role requirements, including DBIDS background check if access to military installations is required.