Space Vehicle Systems Engineer; architect

Stellar Solutions, a nationally recognized “Great Place To Work”, has exciting opportunities providing Engineering solutions for innovative new-entrant space companies, as well as established space systems manufacturers, commercial space system operators and service providers, and other industry stakeholders including investors.

At Stellar Solutions, we offer talented, energetic, and immediately productive resources to satisfy our customers’ critical needs in systems engineering and integration, mission operations, program management and strategic planning. We are a leading service and expertise provider for high-tech commercial ventures, spanning communications, earth observation and remote sensing systems and data products, to the infrastructures that support earth orbiting and beyond earth orbit businesses.

Stellar Solutions is seeking a Space Vehicle Systems Engineer (architect) to support a national security space mission at Los Angeles Air Force Base (LAAFB). This role provides systems architecture and engineering expertise across the space vehicle, with emphasis on the spacecraft bus, orbital mechanics, system interfaces, and overall mission architecture. The engineer will help ensure that complex space capabilities are coherently designed, integrated, reviewed, and verified to meet mission requirements.

The Space Vehicle Systems Engineer (architect) will work closely with Government customers and contractor teammates to provide technical leadership across the space vehicle lifecycle. The role requires broad systems thinking and the ability to connect architecture, requirements, interfaces, integration, testing, and technical reviews into an effective mission-level engineering approach.

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop and evaluate space vehicle system architectures encompassing the spacecraft bus, orbital mechanics, interfaces, and overall mission architecture.
• Support systems engineering planning, integration, testing, and technical baseline management across the space vehicle lifecycle.
• Develop, manage, and maintain system requirements and Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
• Evaluate system-level interfaces and dependencies to support effective integration of space vehicle capabilities.
• Support major space system technical reviews, including SRR, SDR, SFR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FCA, SVR, MRR, and PCA activities, as applicable.
• Apply knowledge of the DoD acquisition environment to support technical planning, reviews, and engineering decisions.
• Perform systems engineering and program management functions supporting design reviews and requirements verification.
• Collaborate with Government customers and contractor teammates to resolve technical issues and advance program objectives.
• Support technical assessments of space system design, integration, test, and mission assurance activities.
• Communicate technical findings, recommendations, risks, and engineering considerations to program stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with space vehicle systems engineering, planning, integration, and testing.
• 7+ years of experience with systems architecture, requirements management, and Interface Control Document development and management.
• 3+ years of experience supporting reviews of space systems, including experience with SRR, SDR, SFR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FCA, SVR, MRR, or PCA and the DoD acquisition system.
• Ability to communicate effectively and establish collaborative relationships with Government customers and contractor teammates.
• Ability to work with a high degree of motivation and a dynamic work ethic in support of the DoD mission.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science.

Desired Qualifications

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