Vehicle Engineering Lead

About Rendezvous Robotics

Rendezvous Robotics is building a new category of high-performance spacecraft, replacing rigid, single-use satellites with modular systems that can grow and adapt in orbit. Rendezvous’ spacecraft launch as compact tiles that autonomously self-assemble in space. This first-of-its-kind technology makes it possible to build beyond the dimensions of a rocket fairing and to expand, upgrade, or reconfigure a spacecraft without replacing the entire system. Based in Golden, Colorado, Rendezvous serves commercial, civil, and national security missions. More information can be found at: www.rdvrobotics.com.

Responsibilities

• Own the vehicle-level technical baseline for a LEO in-space assembly mission, including requirements definition, flowdown to subsystems, and traceability maintained through verification, launch, and on-orbit operations
• Integrate the work of the GNC, Mechanical Systems, Avionics, Software, and Manufacturing & Test leads into a vehicle that meets its mission requirements, holding decision authority on cross-subsystem tradeoffs
• Own and maintain the vehicle budgets for mass, power, link, pointing, thermal, propellant, and data, driving margin decisions with the subsystem leads<