Mission Integration Engineer, Mission and Ground Systems; Starshield

the company was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today the company is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Starshield leverages the company’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads.

As a member of our Mission Management team, you will help tackle new technical problems from initial requirements verification through rapid prototyping, integrated test, and operational deployment.

You’d work within a team of other Mission Integration Engineers and Mission Managers, on the same program and across related efforts, to ensure total alignment of your work. You would also work closely with disciplines across the company such as software, flight reliability and payload integration to ensure safe and successful mission completion.

You’ll contribute to the performance and execution of satellite programs while specifically focusing on the mission specific systems that drive, manage, and provide user insight into those programs. Based on customer requirements and the company’s system capabilities, you’ll develop system specifications, interface control documentation, and infrastructure plans. This work will cover a number of technical disciplines including satellite command and control, operational planning, data processing,compute and networking infrastructure, and the secure implementation and execution of each of these discipline areas.

Our ideal candidate is a self-starter and is hungry to do work that matters.

• Serve as the customer interface at meetings, tests, and reviews to develop operations plans, design missions, and participate in real world operations.
• Ensure contract deliverables are completed on-time and distill customer requirements into actionable development objectives.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to drive development. Collaborate with subsystem representatives across team boundaries to consider all necessary trades and ensure end-to-end mission success.
• Support all phases of the program from development, initial proposal, through successful test, flight, and on-orbit commissioning. This will include educating the customer on our designs and methodologies.
• Own ground segment architecture design, including compute infrastructure, network architecture, and software systems.
• Support in-person site surveys and selection for ground stations and datacenters.

• Bachelor’s degree in a engineering or science discipline.
• 1+ years of software engineering or electrical engineering, working hands-on with hardware or software technical projects.

• Familiarity with USG intelligence processes and systems.
• Experience integrating with large language models and traditional machine learning techniques.
• Experience coordinating hardware or infrastructure deployments, including in classified orgovernment-controlled environments.
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals (e.g. IP networking, switching/routing concepts, etc).
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and deliver reliable and expeditious results across multiple parallel priorities.
• Highly detail oriented, hardworking, and professional with excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.
• Spacecraft mission design, development, integration, and/or test experience.
• Strong penchant for innovation in…