Lead Systems Engineer

The Katalyst Space team is driven by passion for space exploration and an unyielding desire to make a difference through our work. The Lead Systems Engineer will guide the direction of Systems Engineering across all engineering disciplines. This position is responsible for developing a complex system architecture, ensuring requirement derivation and traceability, and setting frameworks for Systems Engineering methods that foster innovation. This position requires a strong leader confidently, delivering sound technical judgement within a challenging, face-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities

• System-wide architecture design, defining behaviors and interactions between complex subsystems
• Identifying gaps between requirements and top level objectives  and creating solutions
• Prepare, assess, and approve technical progress through design reviews and major milestones
• Facilitate and rule on technical trades 
• Set the framework for requirement verification methods and define approval levels of analysis to support decisions
• Define and manage interfaces across multiple systems within a System-of-System architecture spread between terrestrial and space segment domains
• Understand changing satellite market landscape and opportunities for technology applicability

Qualifications

Required

• Passionate about space
• B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, or related technical discipline
• Deep experience in satellite mission design and satellite operations, specifically for communication satellites (Launch System Experience is also acceptable)
• Experience in Spacecraft Rendezvous Proximity Operations & Docking
• Experience in Model Based Systems Engineering Methods
• Experience in the full life-cycle development of production spacecraft 
• Experience creating and writing Deterministic and Monte-Carlo based simulations
• Proven leadership in and out of the Engineering domain
• Strong analytical skills
• US Citizen

Desired

• 10+ years of total experience in the above mentioned categories