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# System Architect

- **Company:** STOKE SPACE FEDERAL INC.
- **Location:** Kent, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $129,150
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Iterative and Incremental Development, Reliability Engineering, Cadence Virtuoso, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Architecture, Technical Data Management Systems
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/system-architect-kent-wa--3a5e9c62-47c4-499e-996c-cd2b3df60f62

## About the Role

System Architecture, Cadence, Reliability Engineering, Cost Control, Team Player, System Architecture, Product Development, Analysis Skills, Trade Studies, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), * Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering or similar field

 * 10+ years of experience in an engineering role on a complex product requiring high performance, high reliability, and a rapid development process
 * Exceptional command of fundamentals in one or more of the following engineering disciplines: aerospace structures, mechanisms, propulsion systems, avionics, software, or flight dynamics
 * Ability to understand and apply fundamentals for first-order analysis across all disciplines
 * Ability to move quickly and make decisions in an environment of uncertainty
 * Excellent written and verbal communication
 * Ability to lead and follow

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Master's degree or PhD in aerospace engineering or similar field
 * Experience on a launch vehicle and/or spacecraft program from early concept definition through flight test

## Description

As a System Architect, you will be a core member of a small and agile team focused on developing architecture concepts and system requirements for future iterations of the Nova launch system. You will translate customer objectives and business goals into feasible technical concepts. You will perform first-order analysis and trade studies to evaluate concepts and downselect for further development. You will perform first-order analysis and develop assumptions across a broad range of technical disciplines to make estimates of mass, power, cost, and performance despite limited information and significant uncertainty. In collaboration with the Nova product development teams, you will support the implementation of your architecture concepts into real hardware, learn lessons from integrated testing and flight operations, and translate those lessons into future architecture improvements. You must be ready to stay focused, move fast, self-direct, and learn on the fly., * Listen to customer input and business goals, then develop conceptual system architecture, concept of operations (ConOps), and functional capabilities which meet customer and business objectives

 * Define system requirements to meet functional capabilities and ConOps, define product breakdown, and decompose requirements to lower-level products
 * Quickly make assumptions, perform first-order analysis to validate those assumptions, and generate estimations of system and component performance based on limited information
 * Define system-level approaches to reliability, performance margin management, and incremental development of capabilities, then work to maintain commonality in those approaches across the launch system throughout the lifecycle
 * Support the products that you help architect through the full lifecycle including detailed design, integration, test, and operations
 * Provide cross-system technical insight and subject matter expertise as needed to identify and mitigate risks that arise during the product lifecycle, The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including with respect to disability and veteran status. It is committed to compliance with all equal opportunity laws, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and Title VII. It does not discriminate on the basis of nationality, race, citizenship, immigration status, or any other protected class when it comes to employment practices, including hiring.

Employment at the Company is contingent upon satisfactory completion of reference and background checks, and on your ability to prove your identity and authorization to work in the U.S. for the Company. Employees must comply with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services employment verification requirements, and, therefore, they must complete an Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 at the start of employment and re-verify authorization to work periodically.

Separate from this I-9 process, as noted above, this position entails access to certain technology and technical data that is restricted under U.S. export control laws and regulations. Employment or continued employment may be conditioned on your legal authorization to work with or have access to export control materials as necessary to perform your job.

Candidate Rights & Accommodations

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application or participate in the interview process, please contact careers@stokespace.com. Requests will be handled in accordance with applicable laws. Please do not include medical or other confidential information in your initial request.