Mission Assurance Engineer Verified today
The Role
You will own the end-to-end strategy that ensures our spacecraft is safe, reliable, and mission ready. You will be embedded with the design, test, and operations teams, driving the vehicle safety architecture and relentlessly driving risk down and availability up.
Key Responsibilities
- Ownership of the vehicle safety architecture to meet all safety and reliability requirements from ISS program, ESA, and CNES on entry safety.
- Assess pre-flight risks and potential mitigations with vehicle design, analysis, and operations teams.
- Perform and review FMECA, FTA, PRA, and RAM analyses to identify risks and failure modes.
- Define and validate the spacecraft fault management and FDIR architecture.
- Work with avionics, software, and operations teams to implement fault management strategies and ensure safe behavior under off-nominal conditions.
- Support on-console operations as Mission Assurance representative and drive in-flight anomaly resolution.
- Champion a culture of mission assurance through first-principles thinking, disciplined verification, and data-driven decision-making.
- Report to program leadership on RAMS status, residual risk, and flight readiness.
- Drive corrective actions from anomalies, test failures, and operational events back into design improvements.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree in engineering or science discipline.
- Proficiency with reliability tools such as FMECA, FTA, and reliability block diagrams.
- Understanding of fault tolerance, redundancy management, and failure detection/isolation/recovery.
- Technical knowledge of spacecraft systems and operations including communications, orbital mechanics, avionics, propulsion, thermal control, and life support systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication of technical information.
- Ability to manage projects and meet aggressive deadlines.
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience developing and validating FDIR logic, watchdog strategies, and fault response sequences.
- Previous experience in customer-facing roles with government customers such as CNES, ESA, or NASA on design requirements, test acceptance, and verification.
- Passion for advancing the commercial space industry and human spaceflight.