Spacecraft System Safety & Mission Assurance Engineer

Space Kinetic is a dual-use space technology startup building a new architecture for space operations. The Spacecraft System Safety & Mission Assurance Engineer will help ensure our space vehicles can safely and reliably accomplish their missions by identifying mission risks, evaluating hazardous and off-nominal conditions, and developing effective fault-protection strategies across the full program lifecycle.

What You Will Do

The Spacecraft System Safety & Mission Assurance Engineer is responsible for leading and supporting spacecraft system safety assessments, hazard analyses, fault tree analyses, failure modes and effects analyses, and other safety and risk analyses. They will develop fault-protection concepts and requirements, evaluate spacecraft responses to off-nominal conditions, and coordinate fault-management approaches across flight software, avionics, subsystem controllers, and mission operations.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires a high level of commitment to changing the foundational assumptions for everything we do in space. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical writing, communication, and engineering judgment, including the ability to make risk-informed recommendations with incomplete or evolving information.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field
• 3–7 years of relevant experience in spacecraft, launch vehicles, aerospace systems, autonomous systems, or other complex safety-critical systems
• Experience in system safety, reliability, fault management, mission assurance, or spacecraft systems engineering
• Working knowledge of spacecraft subsystem interactions and end-to-end space vehicle operations
• Experience developing or assessing fault detection, isolation, recovery, safing, or fault-tolerant system behavior
• Familiarity with functional hazard assessments, fault tree analyses, failure modes and effects analyses, or similar risk-analysis methods
• Experience developing, reviewing, or verifying technical requirements and resolving multidisciplinary technical issues

Benefits

• Annual base salary between $135,000—$165,000 USD