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 - Cybersecurity to join our growing team.

The threat landscape in cyberspace has expanded, requiring proactive safeguarding of space domain systems against cybers attacks and vulnerabilities throughout its lifecycle.

In this role, the cyber security engineer will ensure that our space vehicle products remain at the forefront of security and industry standards. This role will implement and maintain robust security measures. This role will 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.

We are looking for skilled individuals with competencies in space vehicle design and operations.

Duties & Responsibilities include

• Interdisciplinary and collaborative planning, designing, development, verification, and validation of lifecycle balanced product information systems security solutions.
• Lead product (hardware and software) security engineering and be responsible for managing requirements to ensure maturity, feasibility, proper flow-down and traceability, requirements verification, and requirements validation from the mission to the segments, payload, bus, and module level.
• Develop verification and validation plans.
• Lead the implementation of cybersecurity features on space vehicles and implement RMF and other accreditation processes for embedded computing systems and space domain networking topologies.
• Evaluate resilient network operations for space domain systems and implement effective crypto keying techniques.
• Evaluate operational needs to define and coordinate security requirements, integrate technical parameters, and assure compatibility of all physical, functional, and program interfaces.
• Analyze system of systems and system architectures for optimization
• Identify space domain hazards, risks, threats, and vulnerabilities in accordance with standards to assure contract compliance.
• Knowledge in secure manufacturing and Anti-tamper designs.
• Implement appropriate accreditation and authorization activities per JSIG, DoD and ICD 503 RMF, NISPOM Rule, or DoD Overprint to the NISPOM supplement as required.
• Work to adjudicate standards such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST 800-53, NIST-800-171, CNSSI 1253, and ISO 27001
• Perform mission, system, and vehicle level trade studies to balance risk, cost, and performance.
• 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