What You’ll Do

1. Understand spacecraft architecture and missions
2. Review current model and simulation capability
3. Identify any gaps in current simulation framework
4. Evaluate how simulation integrates with other teams within the company GSW, FSW, AI&T, MOPS, etc
5. Train as an operator to prepare for upcoming mission
6. Identify gaps from assessment and create the simulation architecture roadmap
7. Identify required models (Spacecraft subsystem, environment, GNC, etc)
8. Establish a framework that defines how hardware models, software models, and operational scenarios interact within the simulation environment
9. Establish how the digital twin gets integrated into a physics based “universe sim”
10. Establish a concrete validation strategy

 Mindset + skills: 

Mindset 

1. Systems level thinker understanding the crossroads of Physics, Software and Hardware
2. Ownership mindset serving as the technical authority across design and implementation
3. Ability to prioritize needs from multiple internal and external customers
4. Excels while operating in a fast-paced New Space environment
5. Strong desire to build and design something from the ground up
6. Someone willing to get dirty and produce code not just design
7. Passionate about creating a product that is used throughout the company 

Skills 

1. Strong understanding of orbital mechanics and astrodynamics
2. Experience modeling spacecraft dynamics, control systems, and environmental effects
3. Ability to design modular and extensible simulation architecture
4. Experience implementing physics-based simulations in Python and C++
5. Strong knowledge of numerical methods, time integration, and stability considerations
6. Experience building “universe-style” multi-body simulation environments
7. Ability to design simulations that support historical replay, real-time execution, and accelerated future-time scenarios
8. Experience with integrating simulations with GSW, FSW, AI&T, and HITL testing
9. Ability to design constellation level simulations
10. Experience designing event-driven or time-stepped simulation frameworks
11. Experience generating realistic synthetic telemetry 
12. Strong V&V practices  

 Your Ideal Background

Required

1. 10+ years of experience in modeling and simulation for complex aerospace missions
2. Deep understanding of physics engines or digital twins (subsystem/component models, dynamical systems, etc)
3. Experience developing for multiple internal stakeholders such as AI&T, GSW, MOPS, FSW, etc
4. BS in Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science or closely related STEM field
5. Deep knowledge in C++, Python, Basilisk (or similar Framework), Docker, K8, CI/CD 

Preferred 

1. Proven ownership of the design and architecture of a multi-model and simulation system
2. Understanding of distributed simulation frameworks
3. Strong foundation in multiple subsystems such as GNC, Flight Dynamics, EPS, Propulsion, etc
4. Nice to have experience simulating 6-DOF relative motion and ROPD missions 

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

Compensation and Benefits: Your base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. The anticipated salary range for this role is $130,000 - $240,000 annually.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at Katalyst. You will also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of the Employee Stock Option and Equity Plan, as well as a relocation bonus and other discretionary bonuses. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, and unlimited Paid Time Off.

At Katalyst our work on projects involving the U.S. Department of Defense requires adherence to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 C.F.R. Parts 120-130, which requires compliance with U.S. export laws before allowing employees to perform certain positions. Currently, our available roles necessitate access to ITAR-controlled information, and as a result, Katalyst would have to ensure any non-US person is authorized access to ITAR information before the commencement of employment. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

What You’ll Do 

1. Contribute to the design, iteration, and qualification ofKatalyst’s spacecraft Electrical Power System (EPS), including power conversion, power distribution, battery interface electronics, solar array interfaces, protection circuitry, and subsystem power interfaces. 
2. Design,modify, and review schematics, PCB layouts, interface definitions, and analysis packages for spacecraft power electronics, with emphasis on switch-mode power supplies, DC/DC converters, load switching, current sensing, fault protection, and EMI-aware layout practices. 
3. Support integrated operation of EPS hardware during functional, performance, and qualification testing, working directly with test engineers to execute bench, thermal vacuum, vibration, and other qualification test campaigns.
4. Help own integrated functional testing of EPS hardware with avionics, flight software, mechanisms, payloads, and other spacecraft subsystems, ensuring power interfaces behave correctly across nominal, off-nominal, and fault cases.
5. Plan and execute targeted stress, margin, and performance testing, exercising hardware across design extremes such as input voltage range, load transients, thermal limits, startup sequencing, fault response, and converter stability.
6. Help define design changes and architecture improvements for future spacecraft power systems, including EPS feature upgrades, power budget impacts, redundancy considerations, telemetry needs, and mission-specific power requirements.

Your Ideal Background

1. Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent field.
2. 3+ years of experience designing, testing, or integrating power electronics, spacecraft EPS hardware, battery/solar power interfaces, or closely related high-reliability power systems.
3. Strong understanding of switch-mode power supply design, DC/DC converter architectures, compensation/stability, magneticsselection, protection circuitry, and practical power electronics debugging. 
4. Experience designing ormodifying schematics and PCB layouts for power electronics, including high-current routing, grounding, thermal considerations, creepage/clearance, current sensing, and EMI/EMC-aware layout practices. 
5. Proficiency in Altium or a similar ECAD tool for schematic capture, PCB layout review, design release, and documentation.
6. Exposure to spacecraft or embedded-system power architectures, including power distribution, load switching, battery management interfaces, solar array regulation, or power telemetry.
7. Exposure to common digital communication standards (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, Ethernet) and mixed-signal design best practices for telemetry, control, and power-system interfaces.
8. Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, bench testing, and debugging using oscilloscopes, electronic loads, power supplies, DMMs, logic analyzers, and related lab equipment.
9. Experience writing or executing test procedures, documenting results, and driving board- or component-level troubleshooting through root cause and corrective action.
10. Experience integrating power electronics with other spacecraft or embedded subsystems; exposure to environmental testing such as thermal vacuum or vibration is a plus but not required. 

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

Compensation and Benefits: Your base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. The anticipated salary range for this role is $105,000 - $145,000 annually.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at Katalyst. You will also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of the Employee Stock Option and Equity Plan, as well as a relocation bonus and other discretionary bonuses. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, and unlimited Paid Time Off.

At Katalyst our work on projects involving the U.S. Department of Defense requires adherence to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 C.F.R. Parts 120-130, which requires compliance with U.S. export laws before allowing employees to perform certain positions. Currently, our available roles necessitate access to ITAR-controlled information, and as a result, Katalyst would have to ensure any non-US person is authorized access to ITAR information before the commencement of employment. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

What You’ll Do

1. Contribute to the iteration of Katalyst’s spacecraft power system design, including schematics, board layouts, and interface definitions, to improve performance and complete feature upgrades. 
2. Support operation of power system hardware during qualification testing, working directly with test engineers to execute thermal vacuum and vibration qualification test campaigns.
3. Help own integrated functional testing of electrical hardware with other spacecraft subsystems. 
4. Plan and execute targeted stress and performance testing, exercising hardware to design extremes through targeted performance testing.
5. Help define and plan design changes for feature or architecture improvement of the spacecraft power system with respect to future mission requirements.

What We’re Looking For

1. Pride in work: You hold yourself to a high bar. You produce designs, documentation, and analyses that are correct, detailed, and ready for scrutiny.
2. Humility: You take on new challenges, learn from others, and grow. You seek out missing context, ask good questions, and course-correct quickly with new information.
3. Technical intuition and mastery: You understand power electronics at the component level and how that integrates in and impacts spacecraft systems at the architecture level.

Your Ideal Background

1. Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or equivalent field
2. 3+ years of experience designing, testing, or integrating power electronics or closely related high-reliability power systems
3. Strong understanding of switch mode power supply design and DC/DC converter architectures 
4. Proficiency in Altium or similar ECAD tool for schematic and PCB layout design
5. Exposure to common digital communication standards (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, ethernet) and mixed-signal design best practices 
6. Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, bench testing, and debugging
7. Experience executing test procedures and documenting results
8. Experience troubleshooting board- or component-level analog and digital electronics issues 
9. Experience integrating power electronics with other subsystems 

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

Compensation and Benefits: Your base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. The anticipated salary range for this role is $105,000 - $145,000 annually

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at Katalyst. You will also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of the Employee Stock Option and Equity Plan, as well as a relocation bonus and other discretionary bonuses. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, and unlimited Paid Time Off.

At Katalyst our work on projects involving the U.S. Department of Defense requires adherence to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 C.F.R. Parts 120-130, which requires compliance with U.S. export laws before allowing employees to perform certain positions. Currently, our available roles necessitate access to ITAR-controlled information, and as a result, Katalyst would have to ensure any non-US person is authorized access to ITAR information before the commencement of employment. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

What You’ll Do

1. Own day-to-day execution of one or more technical programs, ensuring cross-functional alignment across engineering, operations, and leadership.
2. Develop and maintain clear program plans including schedules, milestones, risks, and action tracking.
3. Coordinate across hardware, software, and mission operations teams to ensure deliverables are integrated and on track.
4. Identify risks early, drive mitigation plans, and escalate appropriately with clear recommendations.
5. Support roadmap execution in partnership with senior program leadership and functional leads.
6. Maintain program dashboards, status reports, and decision logs to ensure transparency and accountability.

What We’re Looking For

1. Ownership & execution focus: You take responsibility for outcomes, not just tracking tasks. You follow through and close loops.
2. Strong communicator: You can effectively manage across functions and communicate clearly up to leadership.
3. Structured thinker: You create clarity from ambiguity and keep teams organized in fast-paced environments.
4. Technically literate: You are comfortable in technical discussions, ask thoughtful questions, and can understand system-level tradeoffs.

Your Ideal Background

1. Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience
2. 4+ years leading complex, technical programs
3. Experience in space, aerospace/defense, robotics, or other deep-tech systems, preferably in new-space or modern technology companies rather than traditional defense primes
4. Experience working in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments.
5. Exposure to hardware and software development lifecycles.
6. Experience supporting cross-functional teams with tight deadlines.

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

Compensation and Benefits: Your base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. The anticipated salary range for this role is $120,000 - $160,000 annually.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at Katalyst. You will also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of the Employee Stock Option and Equity Plan, as well as a relocation bonus and other discretionary bonuses. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, and unlimited Paid Time Off.

At Katalyst our work on projects involving the U.S. Department of Defense requires adherence to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 C.F.R. Parts 120-130, which requires compliance with U.S. export laws before allowing employees to perform certain positions. Currently, our available roles necessitate access to ITAR-controlled information, and as a result, Katalyst would have to ensure any non-US person is authorized access to ITAR information before the commencement of employment. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

What You'll Do:

1. Establish, implement, and maintain quality management system procedures and processes.
2. Provide management system training and guidance to Katalyst internal stakeholders to build, implement and improve policies and procedures.
3. Resolve hardware and process nonconformances by leading investigations, identifying root causes, and implementing corrective actions that prevent recurrence.
4. Build and maintain a supplier quality dashboard to track performance metrics, audit results, nonconformances, and corrective actions.
5. Establish and maintain a formal calibration system to track all measurement and test equipment, ensure timely calibration, maintain traceable records, and manage third-party calibration providers.
6. Lead process improvement initiatives to reduce defects, improve yield, and increase production efficiency.
7. Develop and deliver quality management training, reinforce process discipline, and drive corrective action when procedures are not followed.
8. Work with procurement and engineering teams to ensure quality requirements are clearly defined and executed.

What We're Looking For:

1. You have acute attention to detail.
2. You are highly disciplined and process-oriented while focused on improving and building systems that make sense as opposed to blindly following flawed processes.
3. You are experienced managing stakeholders, holding internal team and suppliers accountable
4. You have a high sense of ownership, and enjoy seeing issues through to resolution and ensuring corrective actions are implemented

Your Ideal Background

1. Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other technical field required
2. 3+ years of experience in a manufacturing or hardware quality environment
3. Experience working with a structured Quality Management System
4. Experience investigating and resolving nonconformances
5. Experience working with suppliers and managing quality-related issues

Anticipated salary range for this role is $110,000 - $145,000

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at Katalyst. You will also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of the Employee Stock Option and Equity Plan, as well as a relocation bonus and other discretionary bonuses. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, and unlimited Paid Time Off.

At Katalyst our work on projects involving the U.S. Department of Defense requires adherence to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 C.F.R. Parts 120-130, which requires compliance with U.S. export laws before allowing employees to perform certain positions. Currently, our available roles necessitate access to ITAR-controlled information, and as a result, Katalyst would have to ensure any non-US person is authorized access to ITAR information before the commencement of employment. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

What You’ll Do

• Establish the technical baseline for Katalyst’s robotic spacecraft.
  • Translate work completed into a defined, repeatable system architecture.
  • Identify, define, and formalize interface and integration assumptions across subsystems.
• Inject technical rigor into spacecraft development. 
  • Raise and maintain the bar on systems-level thinking and decision-making without slowing execution.
  • Act as a system-level reviewer, ensuring architectural coherence and disciplined technical tradeoffs.
• Build systems and structures for Katalyst's GEO program, establishing:
  • A clear requirements hierarchy with end-to-end traceability.
  • System-level diagrams and architectures that align teams around a shared technical vision.
  • Configuration and interface management practices that enable scale and repeatability.
• Leadership
  • Take over management of functional-level engineering managers for current and future Katalyst missions
  • Provide consistent, credible technical leadership across the engineering organization.
  • Bring clarity, sound judgment, and calm to ambiguous, high-pressure situations.
  • Set clear expectations for engineering rigor, precision, and accountability in execution.

What We’re Looking For

• Hands-on technical leadership with the ability to engage deeply in system-level decisions.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity while holding exceptionally high standards for technical excellence.
• Highly analytical, systems-oriented thinker capable of evaluating cross-functional trades and defining the appropriate level of clarity in analysis, documentation, and interfaces.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to create durable structures that allow teams to operate efficiently.
• Leadership maturity: shaping a culture of credibility, humility, and pride in work while projecting calm urgency.

Your Ideal Background

• 8+ years of spacecraft engineering experience, with at least 5 years owning system-level architecture.
• Prior accountability for end-to-end spacecraft design, not limited to a single subsystem.
• Direct ownership of at least one spacecraft mission through flight, including system integration, test, and launch support.
• Experience navigating at least one transition from:
• Early demonstration missions to follow-on missions.
• New product development and R&D efforts into operationalized, repeatable execution.
• Proven experience leading multiple engineering disciplines simultaneously.

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

Compensation and Benefits: Your base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. The anticipated salary range for this role is $195,000 - $260,000 annually.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at Katalyst. You will also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of the Employee Stock Option and Equity Plan, as well as a relocation bonus and other discretionary bonuses. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, and unlimited Paid Time Off.

At Katalyst our work on projects involving the U.S. Department of Defense requires adherence to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 C.F.R. Parts 120-130, which requires compliance with U.S. export laws before allowing employees to perform certain positions. Currently, our available roles necessitate access to ITAR-controlled information, and as a result, Katalyst would have to ensure any non-US person is authorized access to ITAR information before the commencement of employment. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.