Space Datacenter Architect

The role

You will own the end-to-end technical architecture that turns accelerator-class compute into flight-ready infrastructure. This role involves reconciling compute throughput with power, heat, radiation, mass, and autonomous recovery.

What you will do

• Own the Space Datacenter architecture across hardware, firmware, software, and fault management.
• Translate mission and customer workloads into requirements, interfaces, performance targets, technical budgets, and acceptance criteria.
• Define node and cluster architectures, including failure domains and graceful-degradation behavior.
• Drive quantitative trades across throughput, power, thermal margin, radiation risk, mass, cost, manufacturability, and schedule.
• Establish interfaces for boot, provisioning, orchestration, observability, updates, fault isolation, and autonomous recovery.
• Define qualification and recovery evidence with reliability, validation, and subsystem owners.
• Lead architecture reviews, resolve cross-functional conflicts, and maintain requirements traceability.
• Guide major platform and supplier decisions and communicate technical risk clearly to engineering and company leadership.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years architecting complex compute or other integrated hardware/software systems.
• Experience taking a multidisciplinary system from requirements through integration and validation.
• Experience with GPU, AI, HPC, or other accelerator-based systems at server, rack, or cluster scale.
• Strong technical judgment across compute hardware, networking, storage, power, cooling, firmware, and infrastructure software.
• Demonstrated ability to make high-consequence decisions using quantitative trades and test evidence.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience designing or operating large GPU or HPC clusters.
• Spaceflight, radiation, qualification, or other non-serviceable-system experience.
• High-density liquid cooling and high-power electrical-distribution experience.
• Experience with high-performance fabrics, AI storage, or workload orchestration.
• Experience establishing a new platform architecture and supplier ecosystem.

Benefits

• Equity in Cowboy Space Corp.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off.
• 10 paid holidays per calendar year.
• Paid parental leave.
• Relocation assistance, if applicable.
• Daily lunch in the office.
• Fully stocked kitchen with beverages and snacks.

Before you apply

• Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Depar

About the company

Cowboy Space Corp. is building the infrastructure to power and connect the orbital economy. Founded in 2024 by Baiju Bhatt, the company is backed by leading investors and builds space infrastructure.