Chief Mission Engineer
Terran Orbital Corporation
Terran Orbital is seeking an experienced Chief Mission Engineer to join our growing team. Reporting to the Director of Systems Engineerinng, the Chief Mission Engineer will manage multiple discipline roles involving mission responsibility and authority for Design, Analysis, Manufacturing, Verification, Validation, and Operations. Chief Mission Engineers are recognized at Terran Orbital for broad industry technical achievements and expertise in a subdiscipline, product line, or mission space of key technical importance to the company. You will guide strategic technical decisions, resolving key technical challenges of importance to the company and provide leadership in mentoring, training and leading technical designs. You will architect key elements for technology roadmaps for mission capabilities, system functional behavior and system performance supporting innovative, high capability, high reliability products and programs.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead all aspects of developing a space product that may impact multiple missions and programs – from direct customer engagement that drives technical approaches to deriving requirements and architectures for mission capability needs
- Chair Non-Advocate Reviews for Projects, Programs, and Missions to ensure business, customer, program, and supplier success
- Designing and developing optimal space vehicle architectures and detailed mission solutions to complex space domain challenges for various remote sensing, RF, and optical applications
- Leading and participating in technical discussions with customers and suppliers to ensure mission success
- Develop engineering artifacts and tools that support interoperability with flexible and state-of-the-art architectures
- Establishing Lifecycle Best Practices, Frameworks, Guidelines, and Processes are executed
- Performing capabilities benchmarking and competitiveness assessment
- Performing mission roadmaps and technology vision/strategy synthesis, insertion, deployment, and overall capability monitoring and management
- Utilizing Subject Matter Expertise and applying surge support for the troubleshooting of focus areas
- Ensuring knowledge capture and knowledge transfer by working with and mentoring engineering members
- Engaging and supporting company tactical and strategic special projects
- Mission Concept of Operations refinement, mapping, and application
- Requirements generation, derivation, decomposition, and mapping
- Configurations and change management
- Logical and Physical Architecture definitions and interface management
- System-level design activities to include state-machines, orbital dynamics, and communication architectures
- System Integration, Verification, and Validation definition and execution
- Mission Operations and systems tasking
