Senior PNT Mission Architect

The role

The Senior PNT Mission Architect will lead the technical definition of PNT capabilities through engagement with customers, government users, and platform integrators. This role involves translating mission needs into service concepts, architectures, requirements, and evaluation criteria across space, ground, and user segments.

What you will do

• Lead technical engagement with customer engineers, government users, operators, and platform integrators.
• Develop PNT service concepts and concepts of operations.
• Translate operational needs into measurable system and subsystem requirements.
• Define and maintain interface requirements and ICDs.
• Lead technical trades and reviews for assigned capabilities.
• Develop verification and validation strategies and evaluation criteria.
• Lead selected integration and demonstration efforts.
• Develop and maintain engineering plans for assigned PNT capabilities and demonstrations.
• Support customer evaluations, pilots, proposals, and funded development opportunities.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in mission architecture, systems engineering, PNT, navigation, or technical leadership of complex hardware and software systems.
• Experience working with customers, operational users, or platform integrators to understand technical needs and translate them into architectures, requirements, interfaces, and verification criteria.
• Experience with requirements decomposition, allocation, traceability, interface management, and technical baseline control.
• Experience developing engineering, integration, or test plans and coordinating technical dependencies across multiple teams or suppliers.
• Ability to translate technical scope into work packages, effort estimates, resource needs, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience planning or executing integration and verification, investigating technical discrepancies, and coordinating corrective actions across engineering teams.
• Ability to evaluate engineering trade-offs, explain technical constraints to customers, communicate risks clearly, and lead cross-functional work through implementation and verification.

Nice to have

• Experience with assured or resilient PNT, GNSS, precision timing, satellite navigation, or integration of PNT equipment into operational platforms.
• Experience developing concepts of operations and architectures for systems spanning multiple platforms, organizations, or suppliers.
• Experience coordinating concurrent hardware, software, and test efforts, including external supplier deliverables and shared integration resources.
• Experience working with government or defense customers, evaluating emerging technologies, or conducting operational demonstrations and field testing.
• Experience supporting technical proposals, acquisition activities, supplier evaluations, statements of work, or development estimates.
• Familiarity with Python, MATLAB, or comparable tools for engineering analysis and test-data evaluation.
• Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Security Clearance.

Before you apply

• Employment offers are contingent on the candidate's ability to access export-controlled information in accordance with U.S. law.

About the company

Logos Space is building a proliferated Low Earth Orbit constellation to deliver resilient connectivity to enterprise and government users worldwide. Their Navigation team is developing timing, navigation, and signal-generation capabilities for PNT services.