Staff Mission Operations Engineer
Turion is developing the critical infrastructure of the space economy. We're doing this by building vertically integrated hardware and software: DROID, our line of space vehicles, and Starfire, our software suite covering simulation, modeling, planning, and operations. We're a group of people who fell in love with the future sci-fi promised us, and we're building it into reality. We build hard things. We build them well. And we're just getting started.
We are looking to add a dedicated Staff Mission Operations Engineer to our team in Irvine, CA. The Staff Mission Operations Engineer will be responsible for leading the development, integration, and execution of mission operations across the spacecraft lifecycle, with a particular emphasis on GEO Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO). This role serves as the senior operational integrator between engineering and flight teams, ensuring that operational constraints, procedures, risk mitigations, and readiness activities are thoroughly defined, validated, and aligned with mission objectives. The Staff Mission Operations Engineer will lead real-time operations and anomaly response, establish operational standards and architecture, drive cross‑team coordination and process improvement, and provide technical leadership and mentorship to raise the capability of the operations team.
