Program Chief Engineer – SpacecraftSatellite Systems

Program Chief Engineer - Spacecraft / Satellite Systems

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Employment: Permanent, Full-Time

Work Model: Hybrid with regular onsite presence

Relocation: Available for qualified candidates

We are seeking an accomplished Program Chief Engineer to serve as a senior technical authority across complex spacecraft and satellite programs.

Reporting directly to senior Satellite Systems leadership, you will provide technical direction across the complete spacecraft lifecycle - architecture and design through integration, verification, launch and on-orbit operations
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This is a high-impact opportunity with significant technical ownership and visibility across multiple missions and advanced space technologies.

• Serve as a senior technical authority across spacecraft programs, ensuring technical integrity and mission success.
• Lead across Systems, Flight & Ground Software, Electrical/Avionics, Mechanical, RF, GNC, Payload, AIT, Manufacturing and Operations.
• Drive spacecraft architecture, engineering execution and technical alignment across disciplines.
• Lead technical, design, anomaly and readiness reviews.
• Make evidence-based technical decisions balancing performance, reliability, cost, schedule, manufacturability and mission risk.
• Identify technical roadblocks and bring multidisciplinary teams together to resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Drive spacecraft through integration, qualification, launch and successful on-orbit operations.
• Represent Engineering in customer reviews, supplier discussions and executive briefings.
• Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders while promoting engineering rigor, standardization and lessons learned.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Typically 10-15+ years of spacecraft, satellite or highly relevant aerospace engineering experience.
• Senior technical leadership experience on at least one complete spacecraft development lifecycle, from design/development through integration, launch and operations.
• Multiple complete spacecraft life cycles strongly preferred.
• Broad knowledge of spacecraft architecture, integration, verification, qualification, manufacturing, launch and mission operations.
• Ability to lead technically across multiple engineering disciplines rather than within a single subsystem.
• Strong spacecraft-level technical decision-making and engineering trade-off experience.
• Exceptional technical judgment, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to influence teams, challenge assumptions and drive decisions without relying on direct reporting authority.

You do not necessarily need to currently hold the Chief Engineer title.

We are open to exceptional Deputy Chief Engineers, Principal/Staff Systems Engineers, Spacecraft Systems Architects, Technical Authorities and senior engineering leads who have worked closely with a Chief Engineer and are ready to step into broader technical ownership.

Experience combining the engineering rigor of traditional aerospace/space programs with the speed and ownership of New Space is particularly valuable.

Additional assets include constellation or multi-spacecraft programs, integration and launch campaigns, mission assurance, on-orbit operations, optical/RF communications, hosted payloads, on-orbit computing, Earth observation, ISR, and government or defence space programs.

Join an established , growing space technology organization operating at the forefront of real-time space connectivity, optical communications, on-orbit computing, hosted payloads and next-generation spacecraft infrastructure
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You’ll work in an environment that combines the pace and ownership of New…