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# Space Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Katalyst Talent Agency
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Systems Engineering, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Performance Tuning, Subsystems, Jama (Software), Hardware Testing, Orbital Mechanics, Reliability of Systems, Modeling and Simulation, Ansys
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/8fe59127-0ff6-44c1-8f48-e2c985e5e754

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in a technical engineering discipline
 * 5+ years of experience working on satellite systems with direct involvement in flight programs and the entire Validation and Verification chain
 * Ability to define and lay out solutions to ambiguous problems
 * Strong written and verbal communication skills
 * Capable of identifying and solving complex problems with little to no supervision or direction
 * Expertise in the space environment, commercial space operations, and/or robotics

Preferred

 * Direct involvement in flight operations or launch campaign
 * Hardware Validation and Verification experience
 * Proficiency with Python, Matlab, STK, Ansys, and/or JAMA
 * Experience in orbital mechanics / astrodynamics
 * Experience in Space Domain Awareness, RPOD, or Robotics

Additional Requirements: Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.

## Description

As a Senior Space Systems Engineer, you'll play a key role in developing cohesive system architectures and ensuring the effective integration of spacecraft subsystems to meet mission objectives. This position is a Senior Space Systems Engineering role, focused on the engineering of space systems, rather than a systems engineer for space. We're looking for someone with a deep understanding of how complex subsystems interact and impact overall system performance.

What You'll Do

 * Oversee and perform system-wide architecture design, ensuring subsystems function cohesively and meet overarching system goals
 * Lead detailed technical efforts and spearhead trade studies of space system architectures
 * Identify and address gaps between requirements and top-level objectives, constraining broad problems and decomposing them into actionable tasks to implement solutions
 * Support the sourcing and selection of key suppliers, components, and technologies
 * Integrate spacecraft components, ensuring cohesive system functionality and compatibility across all subsystems
 * Define Key Performance Parameters, select quantifiable metrics, and determine modeling approaches to directly address and answer key design questions in physics-based modeling and simulation efforts
 * Lead small multi-discipline teams on spacecraft design, space mission design, and R&D projects
 * Assist proposal capture efforts, including private/public, DoD, OGA, and other commercial partnerships
 * Conduct comprehensive system analyses, including risk assessments, reliability analyses, and trade studies to optimize system performance
 * Participate in design reviews, ensuring that designs meet mission requirements, are feasible, and incorporate best practices
 * Support hardware-in-the-loop testing to validate integrated system performance in simulated operational environments
 * Provide technical guidance to junior engineers


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