Mission Engineer

The role

You will serve as the primary technical interface between K2 Space, customers, and partners to develop mission architectures. You will support mission-level engineering, requirements formulation, and payload-to-bus compatibility for National Security Programs.

What you will do

• Define, mature, and negotiate mission concepts.
• Support initial payload integration studies, mission analysis, and system architecture trades.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture and payload interface designs.
• Serve as the primary technical interface for early customer engagement.
• Lead technical discussions and represent K2 Space in TEMs and study reviews.
• Coordinate cross-functional early study efforts with vehicle engineering, avionics, software, propulsion, thermal, and AI&T teams.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• 2+ Years of experience working in the aerospace or space industry, working with spacecraft or space systems.
• Direct experience designing, developing, integrating or testing spacecraft or space systems.
• Strong understanding of spacecraft subsystems, space system architectures, and mission modeling and simulation.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or above in an engineering discipline.
• 5+ Years of experience working in the aerospace or space industry, working with spacecraft, launch vehicles, airborne systems, or payloads
• Experience working directly with National Security customers and systems
• Satellite constellation modeling, simulation and analysis experience and intuitive understanding of multibody dynamics
• Payload performance modeling and analysis (Electro Optical, Radio Frequency, Infrared, Communications, Networking, Position Navigation and timing etc)
• Deep understanding of national security enterprise ground systems and architectures including command and control, networking, tasking, planning, scheduling, processing, dissemination, and tracking so
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Many other perks

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.

About the company

K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown for missions from LEO to deep space. The company is a high-growth Series D-funded company mass-producing satellite platforms.