Systems Engineer, Mission Success & Performance

About This Opportunity

Our talent team is representing a confidential aerospace organization seeking a Systems Engineer, Mission Success & Performance. This is a strategic role focused on ensuring predictable mission outcomes across the full lifecycle of satellite platform development and operations. You'll bridge pre-launch readiness activities with post-launch performance optimization, working cross-functionally to scale production and operational capabilities.

This position is based in the United States and requires access to export-controlled information, limiting eligibility to U.S. persons as defined by ITAR/EAR regulations (U.S. citizens, permanent residents, refugees, or asylees).

Responsibilities

• Drive processes and architectural decisions that enable scalable spacecraft production and mission operations, moving beyond traditional quality assurance paradigms
• Partner with mission systems engineers to own and track verification and validation compliance, verification progress, and test coverage campaigns
• Streamline assembly, integration, and test workflows by identifying bottlenecks and championing pragmatic Test Like You Fly standards
• Analyze on-orbit telemetry and platform operations to maximize utility and capacity of deployed assets
• Ensure on-orbit performance matches pre-flight models, monitoring trends and impacts to mission SLAs
• Own the fleet-learning loop for cross-cutting technical issues affecting multiple missions or the platform baseline
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align requirements, resolve interface ambiguities, and synchronize delivery on autonomy and resilience efforts
• Act as technical stakeholder supporting product roadmaps for internal tooling, utilizing software skills to extend baseline code
• Make pragmatic decisions balancing engineering constraints against business outcomes, prioritizing revenue-impacting work

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• M.S. or higher degree in an engineering field
• 8+ years of experience in multi-disciplinary environments, ideally with exposure to mission design, spacecraft operations, and systems architecture
• Experience with deployed systems operating in high-reliability, performance-critical environments
• Proven business acumen understanding how asset capacity, uptime, and system resilience impact margins and revenue
• Extensive experience in AI&T workflows and V&V strategies, specifically tracking defect escape rates and test coverage
• Strong software skills (Python, Julia) with ability to build upon existing codebases
• Demonstrated ability to model system performance (power, thermal, data throughput) and validate models against real-world, on-orbit data
• Excellent communication and prioritization skills, balancing technical risk with agile business constraints
• Ability to rapidly change roles and responsibilities in a high-paced environment
• Must qualify as a U.S. person under ITAR/EAR regulations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of spacecraft autonomy and fault management architectures, including FMECA and tiered response design
• Ability to write requirements for software teams and review flight software designs
• Experience as lead systems engineer or technical stakeholder in agile environments
• Remote sensing instrument experience across multiple modalities (optical, multispectral, RF)
• Hands-on experience developing or utilizing complex simulation environments
• Familiarity with software engineering tools and processes (version control, code review)

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your qualifications and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. We ask that you work exclusively through our team and not contact the client directly, as we manage the interview process and coordinate all communications on your behalf.

Pay

Pay via Get A Job.ai: $142,000 - $208,000 USD, plus equity and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401k, disability and life insurance, three weeks paid vacation, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.

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