Be more than just an employee number! Join Terran Orbital, the leader in innovation, manufacturing, and operations in the small 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 Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer - Networking to join our growing team.

In this role, the Network engineer will ensure that our space vehicle products remain at the forefront of networking and industry standards. This role will implement and maintain robust and effective networking architectures and work closely with our customers and partners to provide a secure and resilient space domain system. You will support the architecture of key elements of mission operations, system functional behavior and performance, and detailed design for innovative, high-capability small satellites.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide Technical, engineering, and programmatic support for integrated command and control (C2) space-to-ground and space-to-space network management systems.
• Support Design, development, and integration, test, and deployment of C2 space-to-ground and space-to-space network management systems
• Develop C2 space-to-ground and space-to-space network management systems architectures, standards, requirements, and frameworks.
• Monitor and ensure overall systems architecture adherence, and draft/update systems and mission CONOPs with appropriate stakeholders
• Support roadmap development for common Software and networking architectures which are modular, scalable, and extensible.
• Support integration of mission management and data processing with C2, and integration of other C2 components across all levels of abstraction to enable effective and robust space/ground network management.
• Analyze and design for multiple and varying space data transport topologies and CONOPs
• Support network calibration, network constellation modeling, data storage and dissemination, precision timing and two-way time and frequency transfer.
• Interdisciplinary and collaborative planning, designing, development, verification, and validation of lifecycle balanced product networking solutions.
• Establish standard operating procedures that support mission assurance, risk mitigation, and contingency plans to assure required mission “up time” for all ground activities.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define interfaces; integrate mission applications and data storage; and verify Terran Orbital enterprise capabilities
• Implement life cycle systems engineering best practices