Systems Engineer
On-site Culver City, CA, United States Full-time
About the role
Inflection is seeking an experienced systems engineer to own spacecraft design, technical budgets, interfaces, and more. This role reports directly to the CTO. This is a full-time, onsite role based out of Inflection’s HQ in Los Angeles, CA.
What you'll do
- Own spacecraft systems engineering artifacts like requirements, technical budgets, and interfaces.
- Work cross-functionally across spacecraft subsystems and the manufacturing team to ensure seamless integration, test, operations, and manufacturing scaling of Inflection's spacecraft.
- Lead flatsat and hardware-in-the-loop development.
- Work directly with Inflection's customers to plan and execute payload integration, test, and operations.
- Contribute to detailed design across the spacecraft hardware and software stack as required.
- Lead hands-on manufacturing, integration, test, and operations across protoype and flight hardware.
- Design for reliable, repeatable production.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience working with spacecraft, space systems, or other similar complex technical systems.
- The ability to understand, communicate, and work across multiple engineering disciplines.
- A strong level of personal initiative, and the ability to find and address problems before they become problems.
- A passion for space.
- The ability to get hands-on, and an appetite to learn new things.