Systems Engineer

About the role

Inflection is seeking an experienced systems engineer to own spacecraft design, technical budgets, interfaces, and more. This role reports directly to the CTO. This is a full-time, onsite role based out of Inflection’s HQ in Los Angeles, CA.

What you’ll do

• Own spacecraft systems engineering artifacts like requirements, technical budgets, and interfaces.
• Work cross-functionally across spacecraft subsystems and the manufacturing team to ensure seamless integration, test, operations, and manufacturing scaling of Inflection’s spacecraft.
• Lead flatsat and hardware-in-the-loop development.
• Work directly with Inflection’s customers to plan and execute payload integration, test, and operations.
• Contribute to detailed design across the spacecraft hardware and software stack as required.
• Lead hands-on manufacturing, integration, test, and operations across protoype and flight hardware.
• Design for reliable, repeatable production.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience working with spacecraft, space systems, or other similar complex technical systems.
• The ability to understand, communicate, and work across multiple engineering disciplines.
• A strong level of personal initiative, and the ability to find and address problems before they become problems.
• A passion for space.
• The ability to get hands-on, and an appetite to learn new things.