Be more than just an employee number! Join Terran Orbital, a leader in innovation, manufacturing, and operations in the satellite industry. We are a pioneer in the miniaturization of space technologies and the delivery of responsive space solutions. We are a unique, fast-growing, and trusted team focused on quickly and economically designing, building, launching, and operating state-of-the-art satellites for advanced mission constellations.

Terran Orbital is seeking an experienced Systems Engineering Architect to join our growing team. Reporting to the Systems Engineering Manager, the Space Systems Architect is responsible for leading all aspects of developing space platforms—from direct customer engagement during the business development and capture stages to deriving technical requirements from customer capability needs and leading platform architecture development and design execution. The Space Systems Architect applies their technical and leadership skills in organizing, leading, and guiding product line strategic technical decisions and resolving top technical challenges and issues of importance to the company. Space Systems Architects will architect and drive key elements of the product line technological roadmaps for system functional behavior performance to support innovative, high-capability, high-reliability products and programs.

Full-time on-site either in Irvine, CA, Melbourne, FL, Atlanta, GA or Tysons Corner, VA office

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Supports customer engagements and related engineering architecture and analysis products to shape customer requirements
• Support proposal/capture efforts through technical engagement, writing, and supporting analysis
• Lead all aspects of developing space platforms – from direct customer engagement that drives technical approaches, deriving requirements and architectures, to identifying and managing technical risks and opportunities
• Develop a Basis of Estimating (BOE) cost efforts that support program execution
• Designing and developing optimal space vehicle architectures for complex space domain challenges for various remote sensing, RF, and optical applications
• Utilizing expertise and applying surge support for the troubleshooting of focus areas
• Engaging and supporting company tactical and strategic special projects
• System-level design activities to include State-Machines, Orbital dynamics, and Communication architectures
• System Integration, Verification, and Validation definition and execution
• Ensuring knowledge capture and knowledge transfer by working with and mentoring engineering members