Propulsion Systems Engineer II

About Blue Canyon Technologies

Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX's small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, is solving some of the toughest challenges in space. Our components and bus platforms have completed missions ranging from very-low Earth orbits to lunar and interplanetary journeys at a fraction of the cost of traditional space systems. We support premier defense, commercial and civil organizations including the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, MIT Lincoln Lab, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Colorado and more.

Join our innovative and dynamic company as we build, test and operate the small spacecraft of the future.

(Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)

On-site position at our Lafayette, CO location (work locations are subject to change based on business need).

• Employer sponsored health, dental, and vision benefits effective the first of the month following hire date
• Life insurance
• 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution)
• Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation + 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, 7 paid holidays throughout the year) and parental leave

• Develop and maintain spacecraft delta-v and/or propellant budgets, given mission-level requirements
• Create/confirm propulsion subsystem designs
• Develop and manage propulsion subsystem and component requirements and verification techniques
• Develop tools for propulsion subsystem performance analyses
• Oversee propulsion component and/or subsystem development, design, qualification, and verification efforts
• Develop interface specifications, CONOPS definition, subsystem description documents, and other design documents related to propulsion subsystems
• Author and manage propulsion hardware vendor specifications, requests for information, and statements of work
• Assist with customer meetings and facilitate technical exchanges with customers and vendors
• Assist with proposals and facilitate technical exchanges with the engineering team
• Manage subcontract vendors to ensure high quality and timely product delivery
• Support program design reviews
• Collaborate closely with technical program leads across diverse domain expertise
• Support the allocation of driving requirements (both cost and technical)
• Support key trades (both cost and technical)
• Other responsibilities as assigned

• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science discipline, or equivalent
• Experience with all phases of the program lifecycle (business development, mission formulation, requirements flow-down, manufacturing, integration and test, and on-orbit operations)
• System design experience, balancing performance, cost, power, emerging technologies, etc.
• Ability to perform trade studies and parametric analyses
• Ability to develop procurement documents (specification, SOW) and manage subcontracts
• Good documentation and communication skills
• Ability to work rapidly with some supervision on projects involving both small and large engineering teams
• Must be able to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with emphasis in rapid prototyping and fielding of capabilities
• Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education

This job operates in a professional office environment, but in a manufacturing company. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines. BCT anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the…