To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking an Electrical, Avionics Drafter level I, II, or Sr to support design, integration, testing, and maintenance of one of our carrier or hypersonic vehicles electrical and avionics systems; as an Electrical, Avionics Drafter you will be responsible for the following:

• Develop engineering documentation including Wiring Diagrams, and Harness drawings following industry drafting standards (ASME.Y14)
• Develop and maintain system and sub-system drawing packages
• Plans, layouts, draws, and revises detailed part, assembly, and installation engineering drawings from basic layouts referencing Stratolaunch and Aerospace Industry Standards (drawing note call outs)
• Understanding of how Electrical and Mechanical components interact in larger systems (details, sub-assemblies, main assemblies, Next Higher Assemblies)
• Incorporate redlines from the engineering design team and hanging redlines from completed manufacturing work
• Utilizes computer-aided design equipment and/or graphic tools such as, CAD, NX, CATIA, Mentor Graphics
• Develop process improvement documentation to establish to define engineering drafting current practices
• Ability to understand a broad range of technical data, interact with different disciplines involved in the design, purchasing, manufacturing, integration, and testing of our vehicle(s).

Candidates must have an aerospace development background and relevant experience in aerospace systems integration.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create Engineering documentation to facilitate design efforts for Avionics subsystems
• Reference 3D CAD models and integrate into 2D environments.
• Support Avionics design effort, as required
• Regular and comprehensive communication to leadership
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Travel, as needed, to support the department
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience working with, one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, avionics, experimental aircraft and/or launch vehicle integration
• Experience with Aerospace production documentation (drawings and work orders)
• Experience with PDM systems, Engineering control and revision control release processes
• Familiarity with common aerospace hardware such as connectors, relays, and wire types
• Facilitation skills and ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to gain support or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on your own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Complex aerospace system development
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Security clearance
• Experience integrating launch vehicle or aircraft electrical power systems
• Direct hands-on experience with aircraft electrical system installation and best practices

Required Skills:

• Siemens Capital/Mentor Graphics
• Familiar with concept and applications following Drafting Standards per ASME Y14
• Familiarity with 3D CAD
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Experience as a CAD parts librarian (Preferred: Mentor Graphics)

Preferred Skills:

• 3D CAD modeling experience – NX, CATIA, or Solidworks
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)
• Familiar with concept and applications following GD&T per ASME Y14.5

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level I ($40.00 - $52.50): Bachelor’s degree or higher from accredited institution and 0-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Level II ($48.60 - $63.75): Bachelor’s degree or higher from accredited institution and 5-15 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Level III ($58.00 - $76.00): Bachelor’s degree or higher from accredited institution and 10+ years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position on-site based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department. Travel estimated to be <5%

Stratolaunch is seeking a level II, Sr., or Staff-level Systems Engineer to support Integration and Test (I&T) of Aircraft and Hypersonic vehicles. An ideal candidate will have experience in aerospace systems integration and test. This role involves interfacing with a multi-disciplinary engineering team and program management.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with the systems engineering, test team responsible engineers, and program leadership to define and implement vehicle integration and test activities
• Develops and executes hardware-in-the-loop and on-vehicle test procedures
• Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary engineering team to produce and maintain an up-to-date test objective database
• Ensures vehicle is tested in a manner to meet vehicle requirements
• Participates in test planning, Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), test execution, vehicle troubleshooting and post-test data reviews
• Architects and optimizes data review methodology, as well as data review and data analysis tools
• Understands connections and dependences between subsystems
• Sets standards for test planning and documentation and ensure those standards are met
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, and integrity in the fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATION & SKILLS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience working in small, dynamic engineering teams where each member often has multiple responsibilities
• Previous test experience (e.g. vehicle integration testing, ground testing, and/or flight testing)
• Familiarity with aerospace systems such as avionics, instrumentation, software, fluid systems, liquid rockets, and/or structures
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Excellent written & verbal communication 
• Ability to acquire and maintain a security clearance

Required Skills:

• MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
• Familiarity with CAD (Solidworks preferred)
• Familiarity with configuration management systems such as Jira
• Familiarity with requirement management systems such as Jama, Cameo, DOORS, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a Test Conductor
• Experience contributing to the systems engineering content for a major technical review such as System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review or Critical Design Review
• Experience maintaining aerospace industry standards for vehicle configuration and changes
• Experience with air-launched supersonic/hypersonic vehicle development
• Experience with technical risk identification, management, and mitigation
• Experience defining, managing, and verifying requirements for hypersonic vehicles with hot-structure airframes
• Current DOD Secret security clearance

Preferred Skills:

• Experience programming (Matlab, Python)
• Experience with CAD (Solidworks preferred)
• Experience with configuration management systems such as Jira
• Experience with requirement management systems such as Jama, Cameo, DOORS, etc.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: 

• Level II ($101,079-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr. Level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff Level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• This position is located in Mojave, CA.
• Travel estimated to be <10% in support of the program

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Sr, Staff, or Principal level Avionics Engineer with emphasis in Autonomous Flight Safety System (AFSS) and Flight Termination Systems (FTS) to lead continued technical development of air-launched hypersonic aircraft.  This position will also support the efforts to design, integrate, and test the AFSS in accordance with RCC-319 and RCC-324. Additionally, this position will include working with range safety personnel to coordinate review and approval of various AFSS documents. You must be comfortable with component/system development and integration.  Candidates must have an aerospace development background and relevant experience in aerospace systems integration.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the development, implementation, and subsystem-level testing of the AFSS and FTS
• Collaborate with range safety to review and approve AFSS and FTS documentation
• Support design, procurement, and build of AFSS Hardware in the Loop
• Contribute to flight test planning for integrated (carrier aircraft + pylon + hypersonic vehicle) Stratolaunch missions
• Collaborate with range safety personnel to develop AFSS and FTS technical requirements
• Contribute to coordination of range testing
• Support design reviews throughout vehicle system development
• Evaluate and determine risks and risk mitigation plans
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Avionics Chief Engineer and FTS/AFSS PM on a weekly and monthly basis
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, aircraft and/or launch vehicle integration
• Experience with FTS and/or AFSS (receivers, batteries, safe and arm devices, ordnance, initiators)
• Experience architecting avionics system design with COTS or in-house hardware
• Experience working with and tailoring RCC-319 & RCC-324 requirements
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop junior engineers
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing technical project milestones
• Experience with test planning and execution
• Experience with risk management
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on their own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoW security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Engineering programming tools (Matlab or equivalent)
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Configuration management systems (Git, Bitbucket, JIRA, or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing and certifying safety-critical flight software (DO-178 or equivalent)
• Knowledge of RF system design including link budgets, antenna design, and antenna placement
• Knowledge of debris catalogs and how they’re used for breakup analysis
• Experience developing environmental test specifications
• Experience with max predicted environment instrumentation (accelerometers, thermocouples)
• Engineering with computing languages & tools (C, C++, AGI STK, HFSS)
• Experience with government agencies
• Experience with air-launch programs
• Experience with aircraft prototype development, including releasing Engineering definition and developing work instructions
• Security clearance

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Sr Level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff Level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Principal Level ($181,000-$237,200): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 20-25 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <10%
• #LIOnsite

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Staff or Principal-level Mechanical Engineer to lead the airframe team in the development of an air-launched, hypersonic flight vehicle development program. This position requires leading a multi-disciplined group of engineers to design, build, and test vehicles to meet customer structural requirements. An ideal candidate has significant prototype development experience, with focus in thermal-structural-mechanical design, leading to first flights.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead a diverse team of mechanical and manufacturing engineers
• Lead structural development of the hypersonic vehicle, including trade studies and structural layout
• Responsible for making final technical decisions for the structures subsystem
• Lead the successful execution of structural design reviews to advance the program through manufacturing and into flight test
• Lead structural systems engineering approach, which may include: creating and dispositioning structural requirements, mass properties management, guiding the configuration management of models, reviewing and approving documents/reports/analyses, setting engineering and design best practices and standards for the structures team, waiving or approving ground testing based on structural technical risk assessments, etc.
• Work hand-in-hand with the program responsible engineers and Chief Engineer to lead the program to a successful outcome
• Regular and comprehensive communication to program Chief Engineer
• Travel, as needed, to support the program
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: mechanical design, structures, mechanical systems, structural-thermal analysis, aircraft systems, aircraft operations, launch vehicle integration
• Significant experience with the rapid development of prototype or experimental flight vehicles, including full life-cycle involvement on at least one program
• Significant experience as a design engineering lead and/or analyst on a structures team
• Experience with metallic structures design, analysis, and manufacturing
• Experience with technical aerospace leadership, including working with sub-contractors
• Experience with risk management
• Experience working in small engineering teams where each member often has multiple responsibilities
• Excellent written & verbal communication
• Ability to acquire and maintain a security clearance
• Ability to work on your own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with hypersonic and/or supersonic vehicle development
• Experience with air-launched vehicle development
• Experience with composite structures design, analysis, and manufacturing
• Experience with personnel management and small team leadership
• Active Secret, TS, and/or SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• 3D CAD experience (Siemens NX and Teamcenter preferred)
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook)
• Configuration management systems such as JIRA, GIT, JAMA, etc.

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Experience with FEMAP, Nastran

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Principal Level ($181,000-$237,300): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 20+ years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment:

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Consideration for hybrid (partial remote/on-site work) work location arrangement at ~75-80% on-site time for highly-qualified candidates (four days per week on-site)
• Travel, as needed, to support the department, travel estimated to be <5%
• #mechanical
• #hypersonicprogram

• #LI-AM1

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a level II or Sr-level Avionics Engineer to support design, integration, testing, and maintenance of hypersonic aircraft avionics systems.  This role will have a focus in Telemetry (TM).  This position will include collaborating with other system owners to understand test requirements and operations support needs for multiple test ranges. 

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to instrumentation, network, & telemetry (data) system requirements development, architecture design, testing, & operation for local and extended range missions.
• Support flight operations by ensuring data system assets are prepared for flight test.
• Support the selection of and harness design for new sensors, data acquisition units, computers, network switches, and other equipment.
• Manage and configure the aircraft instrumentation system to provide real time data for mission monitoring as well as logged data for post-flight analysis
• Support the development and maintenance of software tools as required, including configuration management, simulation, deployment, and analysis tools.
• Determine, document, and manage subsystem requirements for each new configuration
• Develop and support instrumentation, network, & telemetry tests as required.
• Support integration testing such as power checks, sensor calibration, and equipment checkout
• Collaborate with design engineers, network engineers, and technicians as required to accomplish goals.
• Prepare data system material to present at design reviews and flight readiness reviews and in post operation reviews.
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Telemetry, Instrumentation, or Network engineering in an operational or regulated test environment.
• Experience with Ethernet networking and familiarity with TCP, UDP, multicasting, etc.
• Experience with integrating data acquisition instrumentation (Analog, discrete, and digital protocols such as ARINC 429, etc) from distributed systems with mission control software.
• Knowledgeable with RF devices such as transmitters, receivers, encoders/decoders, or similar
• Experience with data acquisition systems and dataloggers
• Experience writing system requirements
• Excellent written & verbal communication
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the SECRET or above level

Required Computer Skills:

• Expertise with at least one programming languages, including but not limited to C/C++/C#, Python
• Familiarity with continuous integration toolchains such as Jenkins or Bamboo
• Experience with source control systems, such as Git
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Visio)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with complex payload and/or guided systems
• Experience integrating a high Mach or hypersonic system onto a military platform
• Flight test program instrumentation system experience
• Experience designing & manufacturing aircraft harnesses
• Aircraft and/or launch vehicle development experience
• Experience with configuring and monitoring RF telemetry components for end-to-end testing (encode, transmit, receive, decode)
• Knowledge of IRIG 106 CH4, Ch 10, CH 7 or other telemetry standards
• Hands-on aircraft build, piloting, and flight test experience
• Experience with requirements management tools such as JAMA or Doors
• Mission Control Room console experience
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Experience with relational, document and time-series databases
• Experience with Curtiss-Wright or Safran Data Acquisition Units
• Experience with continuous integration toolchains such as Jenkins or Bamboo

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level II ($101,100-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr Level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%
  
  #LIOnsite

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a level I Mechanical or Aerospace Engineer to support design, integration, testing, flight test, and maintenance of carrier aircraft mechanical and structural systems.  This position will include collaborating with other system owners to understand requirements and engineer solutions.  Areas of focus may include primary and secondary structure, subsystems, etc. You must be comfortable owning your responsibilities and supporting your design through the entire design life cycle – from concept through integration and test.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the design, build, and component level testing of mechanical and/or structural systems and hardware
• Perform calculations and basic analysis of mechanical components and/or assemblies
• Spec and order hardware, as required, to fabricate your designs
• Create component and assembly drawings for all hardware
• Assist mechanics in integrating all components and assemblies onto the vehicle
• Test components and/or assemblies to prepare for integrated ground testing
• Develop engineering tools, as needed, to complete their tasking
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Roc Chief Engineer
• Mission Control Center console and Flight Test responsibilities are expected
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: mechanical design, structural engineering, thermal analysis, kinematics, component or assembly level mechanical testing, electrical and/or instrumentation experience
• Experience with metal component design, both billet machined components and weldments
• Experience with aerospace-grade hardware and mechanical design best practices
• Experience with ground test hardware, including releasing engineering definition and developing work instructions
• Experience with component-level or subsystem level test planning and execution
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on their own initiative
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools – NX, Solidworks, or CATIA
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Visio)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Programming – Matlab or Python
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level I ($83,000-$120,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 0-2 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position on-site based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking an Avionics Engineering Technician level I, II, or Sr to support design, integration, testing, and maintenance of the Talon-A hypersonic vehicle electrical and avionics systems.  You will create shop definition including drawings, wiring diagrams, and work instructions. You must be comfortable as a liaison to the shop to install and modify existing aircraft subsystems. This position will include evaluation of a broad range of technical data. Candidates must have an aerospace development background and relevant experience in aerospace systems integration

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the flight operations by acting as the engineering liaison to troubleshoot electrical and avionics ground test issues
• Design, manufacture, and operate electrical ground support equipment
• Create drawings, wiring diagrams, and work instructions to install or modify electrical and/or avionics subsystems
• Support the shop by acting as the engineering liaison to troubleshoot documentation issues and provide real-time support on the shop floor
• Regular and comprehensive communication to your lead
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Travel, as needed, to support the department
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, avionics, experimental aircraft and/or launch vehicle integration
• Experience integrating launch vehicle or aircraft electrical power systems
• Experience with the creation of shop work instructions, including wiring diagrams and drawings
• Direct hands-on experience with aircraft electrical system installation and best practices
• Facilitation skills and ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to gain support or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on your own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Complex aerospace system development
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Environmental testing experience
• Security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Wiring diagram tools: Siemens Capital Logic/Harness, or equivalent
• Lab equipment: Oscilloscopes, multimeters, AC/DC power supplies, signal generators
• Familiarity with 3D CAD
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Siemens Capital/Mentor Graphics
• 3D CAD modeling experience – NX, CATIA, or Solidworks
• Curtiss-Wright IADS or Labview
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Engr Tech I ($32.00-$46.45): Relevant experience in engineering discipline or 0-10 years as technician in relevant discipline. CAD experience.
• Engr Tech II ($40.00-$57.90): Strong relevant experience in engineering discipline or 5-15 years as technician in relevant discipline. Proficiency with CAD.
• Sr Engr Tech ($48.60-$63.75): Strong relevant experience in engineering discipline or 10+ years as technician in relevant discipline. Strong proficiency with CAD.

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position on-site based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department. Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a II, Sr-, or Staff-Mechanical Engineer to support the in the development of an air-launched, hypersonic flight vehicle development program. This position requires working within a multi-disciplined group of engineers to design, build, integrate, and test vehicles to meet customer structural requirements. An ideal candidate has experience with hot metallic structure development.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to a diverse team of mechanical and manufacturing engineers
• Contribute to structural development of the hypersonic vehicle, including trade studies and structural layout
• Responsible for contributing to final technical decisions for the structures subsystem
• Support the successful execution of structural design reviews to advance the program through manufacturing and into flight test
• Contribute to structural systems engineering approach, which may include: creating and dispositioning structural requirements, mass properties management, guiding the configuration management of models, reviewing and approving documents/reports/analyses, setting engineering and design best practices and standards for the structures team, waiving or approving ground testing based on structural technical risk assessments, etc.
• Work hand-in-hand with the program responsible engineers and Chief Engineer to lead the program to a successful outcome
• Regular and comprehensive communication to program Airframe Lead
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: mechanical design, structures, mechanical systems, structural-thermal analysis, aircraft systems, aircraft operations, launch vehicle integration
• Experience with metallic structures design, analysis, and manufacturing
• Experience with technical aerospace work, including working with vendors
• Experience with risk management and critical path workflow
• Excellent written & verbal communication
• Ability to create and review engineering drawings per AMSE Y14.5
• Ability to acquire and maintain a security clearance
• Ability to work on your own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Significant experience with the rapid development of prototype or experimental flight vehicles, including full life-cycle involvement on at least one program
• Experience with thermally stresses airframes
• Experience with hands-on fabrication in an aerospace environment
• Experience transitioning prototype programs into Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP)
• Experience with Design for Manufacturability & Assembly (DFMA) improvement effort
• Experience with hypersonic and/or supersonic vehicle development
• Experience with air-launched vehicle development
• Experience with composite structures design, analysis, and manufacturing
• Active S, TS, and/or SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• 3D CAD experience (Siemens NX and Teamcenter preferred)
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook)
• Configuration management systems such as JIRA, GIT, JAMA, etc.

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Experience with FEMAP, Nastran

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• II-level ($101,079-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr-level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA.  Consideration for hybrid (partial remote/on-site work) work location arrangement at no less than 75-80% on-site time.
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

integration, testing, and maintenance of the Talon-A hypersonic aircraft structure.  This position will include conceptualizing components, sizing and analyzing components, generating CAD model parts and assemblies, creating margin reports, detailed design, and supporting the manufacturing effort. In addition, this position will support the Talon-A structures lead with team guidance and mentorship.  You are responsible for contributing to the vehicle’s structural technical performance, including meeting design and mission requirements, resolving technical challenges, and implementing technology upgrades that improve the competitive basis of the Talon-A hypersonic vehicle architecture.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in aerospace structural design efforts
• Perform detailed design of various structural components, leading to release of engineering work orders
• Size and analyze components to meet program structural requirements, including writing margin reports
• Design various secondary/support structure for mounting components
• Select material systems and construction techniques that meet project objectives
• 3D CAD model parts and assemblies
• Work with engineering technicians and the shop to fabricate and assemble your designs
• Resolve technical challenges as they arise for Talon-A and its integration with the carrier aircraft
• Support Talon-A Structures Lead with team guidance and mentorship
• Regular and comprehensive communication to project leads
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Travel, as needed, to support the company
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to analyze your designs using hand calculations and FEM
• Experience with 3D CAD modeling of parts and assemblies
• Experience with composite part fabrication and manufacturing methods
• Experience with composite tooling methods
• Experience with aerospace fasteners and specs
• Experience with drafting and GD&T
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
• Ability to take direction, work relatively independently, and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with aerospace-grade hardware and mechanical design best practices
• Experience with ground test hardware, including releasing engineering definition and developing work instructions
• Experience with bonded and wet tied composite structures
• Experience with FEMAP, Nastran
• Experience with generating loads
• Experience with metallic design and manufacturing
• Experience with component-level or subsystem level test planning and execution
• Experience with static structural testing
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools – NX, CATIA or Solidworks
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Configuration management systems -- Jira

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Lvl I ($83,000-$109,000) - Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 0-2 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Lvl II ($101,079-$146,500) - Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Lvl Sr. ($120,500-$158,000) - Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

 Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Staff-level Propulsion Engineer to support design, integration, testing, and maintenance of a hypersonic vehicle rocket propulsion system.  An ideal candidate will have rocket motor component design experience. This position will include evaluation of a broad range of technical data.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to the development, build, and test of propulsion flight and ground hardware
• Perform structural, fluid, and thermal analysis of mechanical components and/or assemblies
• Create component and assembly drawings for flight and ground test hardware
• Create and maintain work instructions to install flight hardware onto vehicles
• Assist mechanics in integrating all components and assemblies onto the aircraft and/or ground systems
• Order materials and components, as required
• Test propulsion components and/or assemblies to prepare for integrated subsystem testing
• Develop engineering tools, as needed, to complete tasking
• Maintain inventory tracking of critical propulsion components
• Manage engineering release schedule in conjunction with shop planning
• Review and release drawings, work instructions, analysis reports, etc.
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Propulsion Lead
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: solid or liquid rocket motor design, mechanical design, structural engineering, component or assembly level mechanical or fluid testing, rocket testing, electrical and/or instrumentation experience
• Experience with stress analysis
• Experience with 3D CAD modeling of parts and assemblies
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on their own initiative
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience creating engineering drawings and work instructions
• Experience with fluid system design and test
• Knowledge of oxygen systems and oxygen cleanliness
• Experience with component-level or subsystem level test planning and execution
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools – Solidworks
• Programming – Matlab or Python
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Senior-level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Staff-level Propulsion Engineer to support design, integration, testing, and maintenance of a hypersonic vehicle rocket propulsion system.  An ideal candidate will have solid rocket motor component design experience. This position will include evaluation of a broad range of technical data.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to the development, build, and test of propulsion flight and ground hardware
• Perform structural, fluid, and thermal analysis of mechanical components and/or assemblies
• Create component and assembly drawings for flight and ground test hardware
• Create and maintain work instructions to install flight hardware onto vehicles
• Assist mechanics in integrating all components and assemblies onto the aircraft and/or ground systems
• Order materials and components, as required
• Test propulsion components and/or assemblies to prepare for integrated subsystem testing
• Develop engineering tools, as needed, to complete tasking
• Maintain inventory tracking of critical propulsion components
• Manage engineering release schedule in conjunction with shop planning
• Review and release drawings, work instructions, analysis reports, etc.
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Propulsion Lead
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: solid rocket motor design, mechanical design, structural engineering, component or assembly level mechanical or fluid testing, rocket testing, electrical and/or instrumentation experience
• Experience with stress analysis
• Experience with 3D CAD modeling of parts and assemblies
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on their own initiative
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience creating engineering drawings and work instructions
• Experience with fluid system design and test
• Knowledge of oxygen systems and oxygen cleanliness
• Experience with component-level or subsystem level test planning and execution
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools – Solidworks
• Programming – Matlab or Python
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Senior-level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a level II or Sr-level Aerodynamics Engineer to support the conceptual design and aerodynamic analyses of hypersonic vehicles. Candidates must have a strong foundation in aerodynamics and flight mechanics, including stability and control, aerodynamic model development, flight simulation, computation fluid dynamics (CFD), and/or relevant wind tunnel testing. Experience with aircraft design and aerodynamic/performance analyses across the speed range from subsonic to hypersonic, is highly desired.

As an Aerodynamics Engineer, you will contribute to a small hypersonic advanced design team, designing current and future Stratolaunch hypersonic vehicles. Your tasking may include conceptual design trade studies, detailed design and analysis tasks, development of analytical tools to support the team, and flight test support of currently operating vehicles.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to development of aerodynamic databases using analytical, numerical, ground and flight test data
• Perform analytical and numerical analyses to evaluate the aerodynamics, performance, and stability & control of hypersonic vehicles
• Develop aerodynamic models for a variety of hypersonic vehicle configurations
• Contribute to flight performance simulations through modeling and/or aerodynamic analyses
• Analyze wind tunnel and flight test data, as required
• Develop advanced design tools, as required
• Support the preparation of business proposals to the US Government and industry
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with aerodynamics, performance, stability & control, and atmospheric aerospace vehicle design
• Experience with subsonic, transonic, or supersonic theory and analyses
• Ability to self-start, work with urgency, and on their own initiative, and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain a security clearance at the TS/SCI level

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with hypersonic aerodynamic theory and analysis
• Experience with hypersonic vehicle development and/or test
• Experience with supersonic vehicle development and/or test
• Experience building aerodynamics models for complex aerospace vehicles
• Experience with trajectory shaping and optimization
• Proficient in lofting compound surfaces for aerospace vehicles
• Experience with computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Scripting languages (Python, Matlab, or similar)
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Experience with CFD analysis tools – preferred: US3D, Fun3D, Pointwise, Link3D, StarCCM, Kestrel
• Experience with computer-aided design (CAD) software tools
• Experience with trajectory optimization analysis tools
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)
• Familiarity with revision control of software – Git (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level II ($101,079-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr-Level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position on-site based in Mojave, CA.  Consideration for remote or partial remote/on-site (hybrid) work for a well-qualified candidate.
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a level II or Sr-level Flight Sciences Engineer to support the conceptual design and aerodynamic analyses of hypersonic vehicles. Candidates must have a strong foundation in aerodynamics and flight mechanics, including stability and control, aerodynamic model development, flight simulation, computation fluid dynamics (CFD), and/or relevant wind tunnel testing. Experience with aircraft design and aerodynamic/performance analyses across the speed range from subsonic to hypersonic, is highly desired.

As a Flight Science Engineer, you will contribute to a small hypersonic advanced design team, designing current and future Stratolaunch hypersonic vehicles. Your tasking may include conceptual design trade studies, detailed design and analysis tasks, development of analytical tools to support the team, and flight test support of currently operating vehicles.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform vehicle trajectory analysis and optimization on current and future vehicles
• Contribute to development of aerodynamic databases using analytical, numerical, ground and flight test data
• Perform analytical and numerical analyses to evaluate the aerodynamics, performance, and stability & control of hypersonic vehicles
• Develop aerodynamic models for a variety of hypersonic vehicle configurations
• Contribute to flight performance simulations through modeling and/or aerodynamic analyses
• Analyze wind tunnel and flight test data, as required
• Develop advanced design tools, as required
• Support the preparation of business proposals to the US Government and industry
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with aerodynamics, performance, stability & control, and atmospheric aerospace vehicle design
• Experience with subsonic, transonic, or supersonic theory and analyses
• Ability to self-start, work with urgency, and on their own initiative, and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain a security clearance at the TS/SCI level

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with hypersonic aerodynamic theory and analysis
• Experience with hypersonic vehicle development and/or test
• Experience with supersonic vehicle development and/or test
• Experience building aerodynamics models for complex aerospace vehicles
• Experience with trajectory shaping and optimization
• Proficient in lofting compound surfaces for aerospace vehicles
• Experience with computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Scripting languages (Python, Matlab, or similar)
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Experience with CFD analysis tools – preferred: US3D, Fun3D, Pointwise, Link3D, StarCCM, Kestrel
• Experience with computer-aided design (CAD) software tools
• Experience with trajectory optimization analysis tools
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)
• Familiarity with revision control of software – Git (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level II ($101,079-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr-Level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position on-site based in Mojave, CA.  Consideration for remote or partial remote/on-site (hybrid) work for a well-qualified candidate.
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

Stratolaunch is seeking a high-impact, team-oriented leader to manage the Systems Engineering, Integration & Test Section. In this role, you will report directly to the Engineering Department Manager at Stratolaunch, working as a trusted team member along with all other Section Managers, as we grow the Engineering team and its capabilities to support the business. You will manage and develop the engineering talent responsible for systems engineering, system integration (e.g. payloads, vehicle test) and systems test. An ideal candidate will have demonstrated leadership capability, relevant technical expertise, experience managing technical teams and a passion for people.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support direct reports and programs through technical guidance and peer review in area(s) of expertise
• Collaborate with senior technical leaders to establish and enforce technical best practices and standards
• Support Department Manager with employee development and retention initiatives
• Partner with Department Manager, Human Resources, and Talent Acquisition across the hiring workflow to identify qualified candidates, establish strong interview teams, and hire engineering talent in alignment with strategic program goals
• Lead performance management and development efforts for direct reports in partnership with the Department Manager and Human Resources
• Support direct reports in complying with applicable policies and procedures (e.g. timekeeping, employee handbook, etc.)
• Partner with programs and Department Manager to meet tactical staffing needs and resolve resource conflicts
• Support Department Manager in developing and executing strategic staffing initiatives
• Support proposal efforts as required
• NOTE: The Section Manager role is not fully indirect. Employees in this role must be able to balance overhead management effort with tasking that is chargeable to programs or other support functions. (e.g. Bid & Proposal, or IR&D)

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrated success as an individual technical contributor and/or technical team leader
• Experience recruiting and hiring technical employees
• Demonstrated success applying analytical and critical thinking skills to solve multi-disciplinary, open-ended problems
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment to achieve business goals
• Technical expertise in at least one engineering domain of relevance to the Section
• US Citizen with the ability to obtain a DOD security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in matrixed organizations and staffing technical personnel across multiple programs
• Experience leading and managing small-to-medium sized technical teams (10+) in resource constrained environments (e.g. aerospace development programs)
• Active DOD security clearance

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Manager ($157K-$206K): Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree (preferred) in related discipline from an accredited institution and 10+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr. Manager ($181K-$237K): Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree (preferred) in related discipline from an accredited institution and 15+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Work location is dependent on multiple factors, including the business needs of the specific role and the geographic distribution of the employees to be manage
• Travel, as needed, to support the department. Travel estimated to be <10%

Stratolaunch is seeking a high-impact, team-oriented leader to manage the Mechanical Design Section. In this role, you will report directly to the Engineering Department Manager at Stratolaunch, working as a trusted team member along with all other Section Managers, as we grow the Engineering team and its capabilities to support the business. You will manage and develop the engineering talent responsible for form, fit and function of ground and flight mechanical systems at Stratolaunch. An ideal candidate will have demonstrated leadership capability, relevant technical expertise, experience managing technical teams and a passion for people.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support direct reports and programs through technical guidance and peer review in area(s) of expertise
• Collaborate with senior technical leaders to establish and enforce technical best practices and standards
• Support Department Manager with employee development and retention initiatives
• Partner with Department Manager, Human Resources, and Talent Acquisition across the hiring workflow to identify qualified candidates, establish strong interview teams, and hire engineering talent in alignment with strategic program goals
• Lead performance management and development efforts for direct reports in partnership with the Department Manager and Human Resources
• Support direct reports in complying with applicable policies and procedures (e.g. timekeeping, employee handbook, etc.)
• Partner with programs and Department Manager to meet tactical staffing needs and resolve resource conflicts
• Support Department Manager in developing and executing strategic staffing initiatives
• Support proposal efforts as required
• NOTE: The Section Manager role is not fully indirect. Employees in this role must be able to balance overhead management effort with tasking that is chargeable to programs or other support functions. (e.g. Bid & Proposal, or IR&D)

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrated success as an individual technical contributor and/or technical team leader
• Experience recruiting and hiring technical employees
• Demonstrated success applying analytical and critical thinking skills to solve multi-disciplinary, open-ended problems
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment to achieve business goals
• Technical expertise in at least one engineering domain of relevance to the Section
• US Citizen with the ability to obtain a DOD security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in matrixed organizations and staffing technical personnel across multiple programs
• Experience leading and managing small-to-medium sized technical teams (10+) in resource constrained environments (e.g. aerospace development programs)
• Active DOD security clearance

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Manager ($157K-$206K): Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree (preferred) in related discipline from an accredited institution and 10+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr. Manager ($181K-$237K): Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree (preferred) in related discipline from an accredited institution and 15+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Work location is dependent on multiple factors, including the business needs of the specific role and the geographic distribution of the employees to be manage
• Travel, as needed, to support the department. Travel estimated to be <10%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Sr, Staff, or Principal Level Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer, with a focus in navigation, to participate in the development of hypersonic vehicle flight control systems.  You will contribute to the design, development, requirements verification, and test execution for hypersonic vehicle flight control systems.  This position will include evaluation of a broad range of technical data.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development and evaluation of advanced algorithms to satisfy navigation requirements
• Development of navigation models and simulations to predict navigation performance
• Perform analyses to verify algorithm designs meet requirements
• Contributions to aspects of the overall flight control system design, development, implementation, integration, and test
• Development of engineering tools, as needed, to complete the tasking
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Vehicle Management System and GNC Leads
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience with navigation system design, development and testing on aerospace systems
• Experience in Kalman filtering, Extended Kalman filtering, and other estimation techniques
• Experience implementing tightly coupled GPS aided strapdown navigation solutions
• Experience building navigators to operate in contested environments and resilience approaches
• Experience with inertial measurements systems and common errors, drifts, and biases
• Experience developing and anchoring navigation simulation models to flight test data
• Familiarity with design robustness to address reset, initialization, dropout, and outlier rejection
• Familiarity with Anti-Jam approaches for modern GPS receivers such as CRPAs
• Familiarity with transfer alignment approaches for missile systems on military platforms
• Fundamental knowledge and understanding of flight dynamics and GPS technology
• Experience with software development processes and methodologies
• Ability to take initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Proficient with Matlab and Simulink
• Proficient with revision control tools (Git, Bitbucket)
• Proficient with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience implementing and troubleshooting closed loop GPS simulations in HIL environments
• Experience fusing multiple navigation aiding sources including non-GPS based data sources
• Experience with alternative aiding approaches for denied or degraded environments (e.g. TDOA)
• Experience implementing mitigations to electronic attack, and navigation signal spoofing in hardware and software for navigation systems
• Experience with cold start, warm start, and hot start for GPS systems
• Experience estimating wind relative angles utilizing synthetic air data and navigator states
• Experience with hypersonic or near-hypersonic missile or launch vehicle design
• Familiarity with P(Y) and M code GPS receivers and cryptographic keying of GPS receivers
• Familiarity with adjoint methods for miss distance decomposition and allocation
• Familiarity with trackers, target discrimination and classification, and aimpoint refinement
• Familiarity with collaborative navigation and targeting utilizing missile-to-missile datalinks
• Algorithm requirements development, design, implementation, test, and post-flight analysis
• Advanced degree with technical focus in GNC relevant areas
• TS/SCI security clearance

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Familiar with C/C++ and Python

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Sr-level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff Level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Principal Level ($181,000-$237,200): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 20-25 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA.  Consideration for hybrid (partial remote/on-site work) work location arrangement for well-qualified candidates.
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a level II, Sr-, or Staff-level Avionics Engineer with emphasis in Flight Termination Systems (FTS) and Autonomous Flight Safety System (AFSS) to support continued technical development of air-launched hypersonic aircraft.  This position will also support the efforts to design, integrate, and test the FTS and AFSS in accordance with RCC-319 and RCC-324. Additionally, this position will include working with range safety personnel to coordinate review and approval of various FTS documents. You must be comfortable with component/system development and integration.  Candidates must have an aerospace development background and relevant experience in aerospace systems integration.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the development, implementation, and subsystem-level testing of the FTS and AFSS
• Collaborate with range safety to review and approve FTS and AFSS documentation
• Support design, procurement, and build of AFSS Hardware in the Loop
• Contribute to flight test planning for integrated (carrier aircraft + pylon + hypersonic vehicle) Stratolaunch missions
• Collaborate with range safety personnel to develop FTS and AFSS technical requirements
• Contribute to coordination of range testing
• Support design reviews throughout vehicle system development
• Evaluate and determine risks and risk mitigation plans
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Avionics Chief Engineer and FTS/AFSS PM on a weekly and monthly basis
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, aircraft and/or launch vehicle integration
• Experience with FTS and/or AFSS (receivers, batteries, safe and arm devices, ordnance, initiators)
• Experience architecting avionics system design with COTS or in-house hardware
• Experience working with and tailoring RCC-319 & RCC-324 requirements
• Experience with Maximum Predicted Environments, Acceptance Testing, and Qualification Testing
• Experience with technical aerospace leadership, including working with sub-contractors
• Experience with test planning and execution
• Experience with risk management
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on their own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoW security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Engineering programming tools (Matlab or equivalent)
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Configuration management systems (Git, Bitbucket, JIRA, or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of RF system design including link budgets, antenna design, and antenna placement
• Knowledge of debris catalogs and how they’re used for breakup analysis
• Experience developing environmental test specifications
• Experience with max predicted environment instrumentation (accelerometers, thermocouples)
• Engineering with computing languages & tools (C, C++, AGI STK, HFSS)
• Experience with government agencies
• Experience with air-launch programs
• Experience with aircraft prototype development, including releasing Engineering definition and developing work instructions
• Security clearance

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level II ($101,000-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr Level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff Level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <10%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a level I or II Avionics Engineer to support integration, testing, and operations of hypersonic aircraft electrical and avionics systems. The avionics system is critical to mission success and interfaces with every subsystem, therefore this position will include collaborating with other system owners to understand test requirements and operations support needs. You must be comfortable receiving direction and guidance from lead avionics engineers and taking ownership of your responsibilities.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support integration, test, and operations of hypersonic vehicle launch system avionics and electrical systems
• Write and perform procedures
• Address vehicle discrepancies
• Support vehicle system trouble shooting
• Maintain configuration control over major avionics system elements including wiring diagrams, 3D CAD, work orders, etc.
• Coordinate with other subsystem leads to develop requirements, test plans, and procedures
• Coordinate with engineers across a broad spectrum of disciplines to understand requirements and engineer technical solutions
• Perform analysis to gauge system design adequacy and performance to meet program requirements
• Coordinate with suppliers and sub-contractors to ensure technical and programmatic requirements are met
• Coordinate with external customers to support range integration, launch license applications, safety documentation and analyses, and payload integration
• Create presentations and support design reviews throughout vehicle development
• Support ground and/or flight test, as required
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Avionics Lead on a weekly and monthly basis
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, avionics, electronics, software development, circuit design experience, experimental aircraft and/or launch vehicle integration
• Experience with troubleshooting Ethernet networks
• Experience creating wiring diagrams and/or circuit schematics
• Experience with flight vehicle troubleshooting and modifications
• Experience with electrical design analysis such as power budgets, thermal analysis, or RF budgets
• Experience with system analysis, such as telemetry bandwidth and/or telemetry link margin
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to work on their own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Complex aerospace system development

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience integrating launch vehicle or aircraft electrical power systems
• Experience with data acquisition and instrumentation (thermocouples, accelerometers, strain)
• Knowledge of environmental testing (vibration, thermal, shock)
• Experience with architecting Avionics and Data Acquisition systems for experimental vehicles
• Experience with IEEE 802.3 networking standards and IRIG-106 telemetry standards
• Experience with being on a Mission Control Center console during flight operations
• Security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Experience in C/C++, Python, XML
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Siemens Capital/Mentor Graphics
• Matlab
• Labview
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level I ($83,000-$120,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 0-2 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Level II ($101,000-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position on-site based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department. Travel estimated to be <5%
• #LI-AM1

Stratolaunch is seeking a Sr- or Staff-level Test Engineer to lead the Talon-A air-launched, hypersonic vehicle testing. An ideal candidate will have experience in vehicle integration and test. This role involves interfacing with a multi-disciplinary engineering team and program management.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborates with the systems engineering, test team responsible engineers, and program leadership to define and implement vehicle integration and test activities
• Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary engineering team to produce and maintain an up-to-date test objective database
• Ensures vehicle is tested in a manner to meet vehicle requirements
• Participates in test planning, Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), test execution, vehicle troubleshooting and post-test data reviews
• Architects and optimizes data review methodology, as well as data review and data analysis tools
• Understands connections and dependences between subsystems
• Sets standards for test planning and documentation and ensure those standards are met
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, and integrity in the fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATION & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications

• Experience working in small, dynamic engineering teams where each member often has multiple responsibilities
• Previous test experience (e.g. vehicle integration testing, ground testing, and/or flight testing)
• Familiarity with avionics, instrumentation, software, fluid systems, liquid rockets, and/or structures (listed in order of priority)
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Excellent written & verbal communication 
• Ability to acquire and maintain a security clearance

Required Skills

• MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
• Familiarity with CAD (Solidworks preferred)
• Familiarity with configuration management systems such as Jira
• Familiarity with requirement management systems such as Jama, Cameo, DOORS, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a Test Conductor
• Experience contributing to the systems engineering content for a major technical review such as System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review or Critical Design Review
• Experience maintaining aerospace industry standards for vehicle configuration and changes
• Experience with air-launched hypersonic vehicle development
• Experience with technical risk identification, management, and mitigation
• Experience defining, managing, and verifying requirements for hypersonic vehicles with hot-structure airframes
• Current DOD Secret security clearance

Preferred Skills

• Experience programming (Matlab, Python)
• Experience with CAD (Solidworks preferred)
• Experience with configuration management systems such as Jira
• Experience with requirement management systems such as Jama, Cameo, DOORS, etc.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE 

• Sr-level ($120,500-158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• This position is located in Mojave, CA
• Travel estimated to be <10% in support of the program

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Level-II or Senior Propulsion Test Engineer to support ground qualification testing of rocket engine propulsion systems. Tasking includes design and development of test article hardware and facilities, ground support equipment, instrumentation, and data acquisition systems, along with supporting tests in the control room. An ideal candidate will have rocket engine development and ground hot-fire test experience. You must be comfortable with supporting your design through the entire design life cycle – from conceptual phase through integration and test. Candidates must have an aerospace development background and relevant experience in aerospace systems integration.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as Test Conductor for hot-fire ground tests
• Manage the propulsion test stand data acquisition system and calibration of components
• Develop and document test requirements, plans, procedures, and reports
• Design and develop hardware for the propulsion test stand and associated facilities
• Conduct propulsion test stand system analyses and studies in support of test activities
• Work in the field to prepare the site for engine testing
• Test stand system troubleshooting
• Support the development and application of the test stand control systems
• Prepare and lead test stand Test Readiness Reviews and post-test Data Reviews
• Assist mechanics in integrating components and assemblies onto the propulsion test stand
• Test propulsion components and/or assemblies to prepare for integrated ground testing
• Develop engineering tools, as needed, to complete tasking
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Propulsion Test group lead
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Conduct test operations as an engineer in the control room and direct others, as required
• Experience with instrumentation and component calibration
• Experience with writing and developing test plans, procedures, and reports
• Experience with designing ground test hardware
• Experience with component-level or subsystem level test planning and execution
• Experience with propulsion ground testing 
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on their own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Rocket engine testing experience
• Experience working with fluid systems
• Test Conductor experience
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

 Required Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools – Siemens NX (preferred), CATIA, or Solidworks
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Programming - Matlab

 Preferred Computer Skills:

• Programming - Simulink/Simscape
• National Instruments LabVIEW/VeriStand
• National Instruments Data Acquisition
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level-II ($101,000-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

• Sr.-level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment:

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department - Travel estimated to be <5%
• #propulsion
• #LI-Onsite

Stratolaunch is seeking an experienced technical leader to oversee its Engineering Test Service Centers. Engineering Test Service Centers provide vertically integrated capability and expertise across Materials and Processes (M&P), Environmental Testing (ET), and Propulsion Test (PT) in support of our hypersonic programs. The Service Center Manager will work across the business to ensure successful execution of our current program portfolio while also building capabilities to achieve future objectives. The successful candidate will have demonstrated leadership capability, broad technical expertise related to engineering test, and deep technical expertise in at least one of the service center areas (M&P, ET, PT). The individual in this role will be accountable for all aspects of Engineering Service Center operation, including personnel, infrastructure, and budget management.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with specialty sub-leads (e.g. M&P lead, Environmental Test Lead, Propulsion Test Lead) to manage and lead personnel assigned to the service centers
• Develop and maintain capability roadmaps for Engineering Services and lead the realization of those capabilities (e.g. M&P test lab, Environmental test, personnel )
• Manage overhead, CAPEX, and IRAD budgets
• Support programs and other stakeholders as a technical subject matter expert (e.g. non-advocate technical reviewer, peer reviewer, proposal writing) in areas of technical expertise
• Collaborate with program technical leaders to balance technical rigor with programmatic constraints and effectively manage risk in areas of technical expertise
• Root cause analysis: Lead failure analysis investigations. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to conduct non-conformance reviews for production issues. Identify root cause and define corrective actions to prevent future failures.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• In-depth expertise and experience in at least one technical specialty of relevance: Materials and Processes, Environmental Test, or Propulsion Test
• Expertise in engineering test design and execution best practices
• Experience working in an engineering test facility and/or laboratory setting
• Demonstrated ability as a technical leader and people manager
• Hiring and personnel management experience
• Experience managing budgets and leading capital improvement projects
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills: Capable of conveying complex technical information to diverse audiences
• Familiarity with relevant industry and military standards (e.g., MMPDS, ASTM, MIL-STD-810) and regulatory specifications
• Ability to interact with customers and/or external stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience applying analytical and critical thinking skills to solve multi-disciplinary, open-ended engineering problems
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment to achieve business goals
• US Citizen with the ability to obtain a DOD security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• CAD
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Engineering systems test experience (development, design verification, acceptance, and qualification testing)
• Working knowledge of systems engineering principles and best practices, especially relating to requirements verification through test
• Data acquisition and sensor expertise
• Experience owning and implementing technical roadmaps
• Experience proposing and leading IRAD projects
• Experience supporting aerospace manufacturing operations
• Experience supporting hypersonic development programs
• Experience with rocket propulsion systems
• Experience with thermal protection systems
• Expertise related to high-temperature materials
• Active DOD security clearance

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Manager ($157,000 - $206,000K): Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree (preferred) in related discipline from an accredited institution and 10+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr. Manager ($180,900 - $237,200): Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree (preferred) in related discipline from an accredited institution and 15+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA. It is strongly preferred the candidate be fully on-site.  Consideration for hybrid (partial remote/on-site work) work location arrangement at no less than 75-80% on-site time for well-qualified candidates.
• Travel, as needed, to support the department. Travel estimated to be <10%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Sr or Staff level Structural or Mechanical Engineer to lead continued development and improvements for the small fleet of air-launched, Talon-A hypersonic flight vehicle systems. This position requires leading a multi-disciplined group of engineers to design, build, integrate, and test vehicle and payload system improvements to meet customer requirements and need. An ideal candidate has prototype development or small scale-production experience, with focus in thermal-structural-mechanical design, leading to first flights.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work hand-in-hand with the program responsible engineers, Payload Lead, and Talon-A Chief Engineer to lead the program to a successful outcome
• Lead a diverse team of mechanical engineers, structural engineers, structural analysts, dynamics analysts, and manufacturing engineers
• Lead structural development of the hypersonic vehicle system improvements and integration of payloads, including trade studies and structural layout
• Responsible for making final technical decisions for the structures subsystem
• Lead the successful execution of structural design reviews to advance the program vehicles through manufacturing and flight test
• Lead structural systems engineering approach, which may include: creating and dispositioning structural requirements, mass properties management, guiding the configuration management of models, reviewing and approving documents/reports/analyses, setting engineering and design best practices and standards for the structures team, waiving or approving ground testing based on structural technical risk assessments, etc.
• Regular and comprehensive communication to program Chief Engineer
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: structures, loads, structural-thermal analysis, mechanical systems, aircraft systems, aircraft operations, launch vehicle integration
• Significant experience with the rapid development of prototype or experimental flight vehicles, including full life-cycle involvement on at least one program
• Significant experience as a structural or mechanical design engineer on a structures team
• Technical leadership experience
• Experience with composite structures analysis, design, and manufacturing
• Experience with technical aerospace leadership, including working with sub-contractors
• Experience with risk management
• Experience working in small engineering teams where each member often has multiple responsibilities
• Excellent written & verbal communication
• Ability to work on your own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to acquire and maintain a security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook)
• Configuration management systems such as JIRA, GIT, JAMA, etc.
• 3D CAD experience - CATIA or Solidworks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with hypersonic and/or supersonic vehicle development
• Experience with air-launched vehicle development
• Experience with BMI or epoxy pre-preg composites
• Experience with static structural testing
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Experience with FEMAP and NX NASTRAN
• Programming - Python, C++, or Matlab

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Sr Level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff Level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA.
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <10%

#LIOnsite

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Sr-, Staff-, or Principal level Propulsion or Mechanical Engineer to support design, integration, testing, operations, and maintenance of the Talon-A hypersonic aircraft rocket propulsion systems as a Deputy Lead. An ideal candidate will have both mechanical and fluid subsystem component design experience, as well as leadership experience. This Propulsion Deputy Lead position has growth potential to further technical leadership.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to the development, build, test, and operations of propulsion flight and ground hardware
• Perform structural, fluid, and thermal analysis of mechanical components and/or assemblies
• Develop and document test requirements, plans, procedures, and reports
• Create component and assembly drawings for flight and ground test hardware
• Assist mechanics in integrating all components and assemblies onto the aircraft and/or ground systems
• Test propulsion components and/or assemblies to prepare for integrated subsystem testing
• Develop engineering tools, as needed, to complete tasking
• Maintain inventory tracking of critical propulsion components
• Manage supplier relations with key vendors
• Technical ownership of clean rooms
• Manage engineering release schedule in conjunction with shop planning
• Track vehicle propulsion configuration
• Review and release drawings, work instructions, analysis reports, etc.
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Propulsion Lead
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: fluid subsystem design, mechanical design, component or assembly level mechanical or fluid testing, structural engineering, rocket testing, cryogenic fluid systems, electrical and/or instrumentation experience
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
• Experience with fluid-mechanical component design and stress analysis
• Experience with 3D CAD modeling of parts and assemblies
• Experience with propulsion ground testing 
• Experience with component-level or subsystem level test planning and execution
• Experience troubleshooting complex systems
• Ability to work on their own initiative
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical leadership experience
• Personnel management experience
• Experience creating engineering drawings and work instructions
• Experience with liquid oxygen systems
• Liquid rocket engine testing experience
• Experience with component-level or subsystem level test planning and execution
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools – Solidworks
• Programming – Matlab or Python, Simulink/Simscape
• Familiarity with configuring data acquisition systems – Curtiss-Wright DAS Studio (preferred)
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Sr-level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Principal-level ($181,000-$237,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 20+ years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department; travel estimated to be <5%

• #LI-AM1

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking an level I, II, or Sr -level Electrical Engineer. This position is responsible for design, development, meeting requirements, performing verification activities, and test execution for the carrier aircraft and/or hypersonic vehicle electronics, with an emphasis on electrical power systems. You must be comfortable with component/system development and integration. Candidates must have an aerospace development background and relevant experience in aerospace systems integration.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support electrical design, including working with existing systems and making modifications, as needed
• Use of standard aircraft components to create control, data, signal, and power circuits
• Support aircraft electrical technology development including developing the requirements, capabilities, and implementing a development plan
• Create wiring diagrams and harness diagrams for electrical systems
• Peer review, provide necessary feedback, and approve wiring diagrams and harness diagrams
• Represent the electrical systems in mission control, continuing console operator duties and contributing to flight test activities
• Develop electrical system requirement verification activities
• Perform electrical system test verification activities
• Perform design and/or analysis to support component development
• Support test procedure development and test execution
• Write interface control documents (ICDs) and support integrated testing
• Develop engineering tools, as needed, to complete their tasking
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Talon-A Launch System Avionics Lead on a weekly and monthly basis
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, avionics, aircraft and/or hypersonic vehicle integration
• Knowledge of EWIS standards for electrical component hookups
• Experience architecting, maintaining, and debugging electrical power systems (28VDC & 115VAC, 400Hz)
• Experience writing test procedures and reports
• Experience with aerospace relays such as MIL-PRF-83536 (or equivalent)
• Experience creating and maintaining wiring harness diagrams
• Familiarity with aircraft power components such as TRUs, circuit breakers, and bus feeds
• Experience with technical aerospace leadership, including working with sub-contractors
• Experience with requirements development, with a focus on electrical interface management
• Experience with risk management
• Facilitation skills and ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to gain support or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on their own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with government agencies
• Experience with hypersonic programs
• Experience performing Electrical Load Analysis (ELA)
• Experience with 747 electrical systems
• Experience with IEEE 802.3 networking standards and IRIG-106 telemetry standards
• Experience with PCB design, bring-up, and integration
• Experience with being on a Mission Control Center console during flight operations
• Security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Experience in Matlab, Python, or equivalent software
• Siemens Capital, AutoCAD Electrical, or equivalent wiring diagram software
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Siemens Capital/Mentor Graphics
• CAD software such as Siemens NX, Catia, Solidworks or equivalent
• Labview
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level I ($83,100-$120,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 0-2 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Level II ($101,000-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr-Level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position on-site based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Staff or Principal-level Mechanical Engineer to lead the airframe team in the development of an air-launched, hypersonic flight vehicle development program. This position requires leading a multi-disciplined group of engineers to design, build, and test vehicles to meet customer structural requirements. An ideal candidate has significant prototype development experience, with focus in thermal-structural-mechanical design, leading to first flights.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead a diverse team of mechanical and manufacturing engineers
• Lead structural development of the hypersonic vehicle, including trade studies and structural layout
• Responsible for making final technical decisions for the structures subsystem
• Lead the successful execution of structural design reviews to advance the program through manufacturing and into flight test
• Lead structural systems engineering approach, which may include: creating and dispositioning structural requirements, mass properties management, guiding the configuration management of models, reviewing and approving documents/reports/analyses, setting engineering and design best practices and standards for the structures team, waiving or approving ground testing based on structural technical risk assessments, etc.
• Work hand-in-hand with the program responsible engineers and Chief Engineer to lead the program to a successful outcome
• Regular and comprehensive communication to program Chief Engineer
• Travel, as needed, to support the program
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: mechanical design, structures, mechanical systems, structural-thermal analysis, aircraft systems, aircraft operations, launch vehicle integration
• Significant experience with the rapid development of prototype or experimental flight vehicles, including full life-cycle involvement on at least one program
• Significant experience as a design engineering lead and/or analyst on a structures team
• Experience with metallic structures design, analysis, and manufacturing
• Experience with technical aerospace leadership, including working with sub-contractors
• Experience with risk management
• Experience working in small engineering teams where each member often has multiple responsibilities
• Excellent written & verbal communication
• Ability to acquire and maintain a security clearance
• Ability to work on your own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with hypersonic and/or supersonic vehicle development
• Experience with air-launched vehicle development
• Experience with composite structures design, analysis, and manufacturing
• Experience with personnel management and small team leadership
• Active Secret, TS, and/or SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• 3D CAD experience (Siemens NX and Teamcenter preferred)
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook)
• Configuration management systems such as JIRA, GIT, JAMA, etc.

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Experience with FEMAP, Nastran

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Principal Level ($181,000-$237,300): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 20+ years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment:

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Consideration for hybrid (partial remote/on-site work) work location arrangement at ~75-80% on-site time for highly-qualified candidates (four days per week on-site)
• Travel, as needed, to support the department, travel estimated to be <5%
• #mechanical
• #hypersonicprogram

• #LI-AM1

Stratolaunch is seeking a level II, Sr- or Staff-level Systems Engineer to support expendable air-launched hypersonic vehicles. An ideal candidate will have experience in full lifecycle systems engineering, including deriving requirements from concepts of operation, developing test and evaluation plans, executing test activities, and verifying vehicle-level compliance. This role involves interfacing with a multi-disciplinary engineering team, program management, and customers.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to derive and document requirements
• Develop efficient and effective test and evaluation plans
• Plan and direct execution of tests for components, subsystems, and vehicles 
• Track and monitor requirements compliance through the lifecycle of the program
• Work with system safety and environment health and safety teams to ensure test activities are executed in a manner which minimizes participant, environment, and hardware risk
• Participate in test design reviews, test readiness reviews, test execution, vehicle troubleshooting, and post-test data reviews
• Architect and optimize test data review and analysis methodologies and tools
• Set standards for test planning and documentation and ensure those standards are met
• Coordinate internally with multi-disciplinary team and externally with customers
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, and integrity in the fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATION & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications

• Knowledge of, and direct experience with, at least two of these disciplines: Electrical and Avionics Systems, EO/RF Seeker Systems, Energetics Systems, Propulsion Systems, Lethality Modeling, Guidance Navigation and Controls, Aerodynamics, Thermal, and Mechanical Systems
• Experience contributing to the systems engineering content for a major technical review such as System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review or Critical Design Review
• Familiarity with tactical missile system constraints from military launch platforms and logistics chains
• Familiarity with military standards pertinent to air launched missiles (e.g. 810, 1553, 1760,…)
• Previous systems engineering experience in a small dynamic team environment
• Experience integrating one or more missile system onto a military platform
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities while maintaining systems engineering rigor
• Excellent written & verbal communication 
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the SECRET or above level

Required Skills

• MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Project)
• Familiarity with CAD
• Familiarity with configuration management systems such as Jira, Git, etc.
• Familiarity with requirement management systems such as Jama, Cameo, DOORS, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating a high Mach or hypersonic system onto a military platform
• Familiarity with WOSA and MOSA and how to decompose those architectures to requirements
• Familiarity with kill chain models such as F2T2EA and associated requirements decomposition
• Experience wearing multiple hats in a small team environment
• Experience defining, managing, and verifying requirements for hypersonic vehicles with hot-structure airframes
• Experience translating operational analysis into system requirements
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Preferred Skills

• Experience programming (Matlab, Python)
• Experience with CAD (NX Preferred)
• Experience with configuration management systems such as Jira, Git, etc.
• Experience with requirement management systems such as Jama, Cameo, DOORS, etc.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level II ($101,000-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr-level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA.  Consideration for hybrid (partial remote/on-site work) work location arrangement for well-qualified candidates and remote (outside of CA) work location arrangement for exceptional candidates.
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a level I, level II, or Sr-level Avionics Engineer to support design, integration, test, and maintenance of software and avionics systems for the propulsion test stands for high-speed, air-launched aircraft. You will be mentored by and learn from a subject matter expert. An ideal candidate will have an aerospace development background and relevant experience in aerospace systems.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architect, design, analyze, integrate, and test avionics and electrical systems
• Maintain configuration control over major avionics system elements including wiring diagrams, 3D CAD, work orders, etc.
• Coordinate with other subsystem leads to develop requirements, test plans, and procedures
• Coordinate with engineers across a broad spectrum of disciplines to understand requirements and engineer technical solutions
• Perform analysis to gauge system design adequacy and performance to meet program requirements
• Create presentations and support design reviews throughout vehicle development
• Support ground and/or flight test, as required
• Evaluate risks and risk mitigation plans to determine if the risks and mitigations are appropriate
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Avionics Lead on a weekly and monthly basis
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of and experience with one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, avionics, electronics, software development, circuit design experience
• Experience with UDP/TCP and PCM
• Experience with integration of avionics wiring and hardware into an aerospace vehicle
• Experience with aerospace vehicle bring-up, including ground tests, flight tests, and system validation
• Experience with data acquisition and instrumentation (thermocouples, accelerometers, strain gages, pressure transducers)
• Experience creating and reviewing wiring diagrams and/or circuit schematics.
• Experience with electrical design analysis such as power budgets, thermal analysis, or RF budgets
• Ability to work on your own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Complex aerospace system development
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoW security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Experience in LabVIEW
• Experience Veristand
• Experience in C#/C/C++, Python, or equivalent
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting test activities from a control room environment
• Knowledge of flight termination systems
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoW security clearance

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Experience in Matlab
• Experience with data acquisition systems such as National Instruments, ACRA, TTC, Safran, or equivalent
• Experience with IADS
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – JIRA, JAMA, Confluence, or equivalent
• Familiarity with Git source code management

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level I ($83,000-$120,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 0-2 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Level II ($100,000-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr Level ($120,500-158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking an Electrical, Avionics Drafter level I, II, or Sr to support design, integration, testing, and maintenance of one of our carrier or hypersonic vehicles electrical and avionics systems; as an Avionics Design Engineer you will be responsible for the following:

• Integrate Avionics and Electrical components into aircraft including gathering requirements, generating wiring diagrams, supporting shop personnel performing the work, and testing the completed systems.
• Develop and maintain system and sub-system drawing packages.
• Define system architecture for Avionics and Electrical systems.
• Develop engineering documentation for Avionics and Electrical systems including Drawing Trees, Block Diagrams, Interface Control Documents (ICD), and Wiring Diagrams
• Define the Bill of Material (BOM) for electrical drawings.
• Partner with harness engineers to determine harness routing requirements.
• Define and update design rules and standards as required.
• Incorporate redlines from the engineering design team and hanging redlines from completed manufacturing work
• Support design validation testing and resolve design related failures.
• Utilizes computer-aided design equipment and/or graphic tools such as, CAD, NX, CATIA, Mentor Graphics
• Liaison engineering support in the electrical shop to provide technicians with sufficient support to complete the task on hand, as required
• Breakdown engineering released documentation to better understand the intent
• Redline released engineering drawing documentation
• Ability to understand a broad range of technical data, interact with different disciplines involved in the design, purchasing, manufacturing, integration, and testing of our vehicle(s).

Candidates must have an aerospace development background and relevant experience in aerospace systems integration.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support Avionics and Electrical design effort, as required
• Develop engineering documentation of Avionics and Electrical systems
• Provide shop support to complete modifications of Avionics and Electrical systems
• Develop test plans and procedures, as required
• Regular and comprehensive communication to leadership
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Travel, as needed, to support the department
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience working with, one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, avionics, experimental aircraft and/or launch vehicle integration
• Experience with Aerospace production documentation (drawings and work orders)
• Experience with PDM systems, Engineering control and revision control release processes
• Familiarity with common aerospace hardware such as connectors, relays, and wire types
• Facilitation skills and ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to gain support or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on your own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Complex aerospace system development
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Security clearance
• Experience integrating launch vehicle or aircraft electrical power systems
• Direct hands-on experience with aircraft electrical system installation and best practices

Required Skills:

• Siemens Capital/Mentor Graphics
• Familiarity with 3D CAD
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Experience as a CAD parts librarian (Preferred: Mentor Graphics)

Preferred Skills:

• 3D CAD modeling experience – NX, CATIA, or Solidworks
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level I ($83,000-$120,500): Bachelor’s degree or higher from accredited institution and 0-2 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Level II ($101-000-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree or higher from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr Level ($120,500-158,000): Bachelor’s degree or higher from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position on-site based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department. Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a full-time Sr-, Staff-, or Principal-level Software Engineer to lead the development and testing of flight software for an autonomous hypersonic test vehicle. While reporting to the Vehicle Management System (VMS) lead, you will lead multiple phases of the software development lifecycle and collaborate with other personnel throughout system development, ground test, and flight test. You will integrate and oversee the integration of vehicle management system application code in addition to the development of subsystem management code.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and test new flight software in support of hypersonic air-launch vehicle systems
• Contribute and oversee the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop software requirements and solutions
• Support flight software architecture development including concept and implementation
• Perform design and/or analysis to support component development
• Contribute to hardware integration with the development of interface documents
• Develop and oversee software components to interface with and control sensors and effectors
• Develop and oversee software test processes in support of software verification and validation
• Support various lab/bench hardware tests with custom software
• Provide technical guidance for projects within the larger program
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments
• Travel, as needed, to support the department

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Must demonstrate the ability to perform the Essential Responsibilities
• Experience with real-time embedded software development
• Experience with serial communications, software test, and computer networking
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to take initiative, prioritize tasking, and coordinate with VMS lead to accomplish VMS goals.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• C++ language programming

Preferred Qualifications:

• Flight computer and/or vehicle management computer software development, test, and integration
• Agile Software Development methodologies
• Experience with VxWorks operating systems
• Experience with 1553 communication
• TS/SCI security clearance

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira, Bitbucket, or Git
• Familiarity with Matlab/Simulink and/or Python

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Sr-level ($120,500-158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Principal Level ($181,000-$237,300): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 20+ years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA. Fully on-site preferred, but open to considering a hybrid work arrangement with ~75% regular on-site time for well-qualified candidates.
• Travel, as needed, to support the department. Travel estimated to be <5%

#hypersonicprogram
#software

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a level II or Sr-level Avionics Engineer to support design, integration, testing, and maintenance of hypersonic, air-launched vehicle electrical and avionics systems.  The avionics system is critical to mission success and interfaces with every subsystem, therefore this position will include collaborating with other system owners to understand requirements and engineer solutions.  You must be comfortable receiving direction and guidance from lead avionics engineers with component/system development, system analysis, design for manufacturing, hardware integration, and system-level testing, and taking ownership of your responsibilities.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architect, design, analyze, integrate, and test avionics and electrical systems
• Maintain configuration control over major avionics system elements including wiring diagrams, 3D CAD, work orders, etc.
• Coordinate with other subsystem leads to develop requirements, test plans, and procedures
• Coordinate with engineers across a broad spectrum of disciplines to understand requirements and engineer technical solutions
• Perform analysis to gauge system design adequacy and performance to meet program requirements
• Create presentations and support design reviews throughout vehicle development
• Support ground and/or flight test, as required
• Evaluate risks and risk mitigation plans to determine if the risks and mitigations are appropriate
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Avionics Lead on a weekly and monthly basis
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, avionics, electronics, software development, circuit design experience, experimental aircraft and/or launch vehicle integration
• Experience integrating launch vehicle or aircraft electrical power systems
• Experience with troubleshooting Ethernet networks
• Experience with data acquisition and instrumentation (thermocouples, accelerometers, strain)
• Experience creating wiring diagrams and/or circuit schematics
• Experience with flight vehicle troubleshooting and modifications
• Experience with electrical design analysis such as power budgets, thermal analysis, or RF budgets
• Experience with system analysis, such as telemetry bandwidth and/or telemetry link margin
• Knowledge of environmental testing (vibration, thermal, shock)
• Excellent written & verbal communication 
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to work on their own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the SECRET or above level

Required Computer Skills:

• Experience in C/C++, Python, XML
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with complex payload and/or guided systems
• Experience integrating a high Mach or hypersonic system onto a military platform
• Experience with architecting Avionics and Data Acquisition systems for experimental vehicles
• Experience with IEEE 802.3 networking standards and IRIG-106 telemetry standards
• Experience with PCB design, bring-up, and integration
• Experience with being on a Mission Control Center console during flight operations
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Siemens Capital/Mentor Graphics
• Matlab
• Labview
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – JIRA, JAMA, Confluence, or equivalent
• Familiarity with Git source code management

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level II ($101,100-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr Level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

 #LiOnsite

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Sr- or Staff-level GNC Engineer to participate in the development of hypersonic flight control systems. You will contribute to the design, development, requirements verification, and test execution for hypersonic vehicle flight control systems. This position will include evaluation of a broad range of technical data.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development and evaluation of advanced algorithms to satisfy Guidance, Navigation, and Control requirements
• Development of hypersonic plant modeling and analysis tools
• Creation of Algorithm Description Documents (ADDs) to document GNC designs
• Perform analyses to verify algorithm designs meet requirements
• Contributions to aspects of the overall flight control system design, development, implementation, integration, and test
• Development of engineering tools, as needed, to complete the tasking
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Vehicle Management System and GNC Leads
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments
• Travel, as needed, to support the department

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Must demonstrate the ability to perform combinations of the Essential Responsibilities
• Fundamental knowledge and understanding of flight dynamics
• Ability to take initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Aircraft, missile, and/or launch vehicle development experience
• Guidance algorithm synthesis, implementation, and analysis
• Control, autopilot design and analysis
• Navigation algorithm synthesis, implementation, and analysis
• Dynamic system modeling of fixed wing, missile, and/or hypersonic vehicles
• Flight control algorithm requirements development, design, implementation, integration, test, and post-flight analysis
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and provide guidance to varied audiences explaining rationale and/or resolving concerns
• Experience with software development processes and methodologies
• Advanced degree with technical focus in GNC relevant areas
• TS/SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Proficient with Matlab
• Proficient with Simulink
• Proficient with revision control tools (Git, Bitbucket)
• Proficient with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level II ($101,000-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr-level ($120,500-158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

#hypersonicprogram
#software

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a level II, Sr-, or Staff-level Fluid System Design Engineer to support design, integration, testing, and maintenance of Talon-A hypersonic aircraft rocket propulsion systems. An ideal candidate will have both mechanical and fluid subsystem component design experience. This position will include evaluation of a broad range of technical data.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to the development, build, and test of propulsion flight and ground hardware
• Perform structural, fluid, and thermal analysis of mechanical components and/or assemblies
• Create component and assembly drawings for flight and ground test hardware
• Create and maintain work instructions to install flight hardware onto vehicles
• Assist mechanics in integrating all components and assemblies onto the aircraft and/or ground systems
• Order materials and components, as required
• Test propulsion components and/or assemblies to prepare for integrated subsystem testing
• Develop engineering tools, as needed, to complete tasking
• Maintain inventory tracking of critical propulsion components
• Manage supplier relations with key vendors
• Technical ownership of clean rooms
• Manage engineering release schedule in conjunction with shop planning
• Track vehicle propulsion configuration
• Review and release drawings, work instructions, analysis reports, etc.
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Propulsion Lead
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: fluid subsystem design, mechanical design, structural engineering, component or assembly level mechanical or fluid testing, rocket testing, cryogenic fluid systems, electrical and/or instrumentation experience
• Experience with fluid-mechanical component design and stress analysis
• Experience with 3D CAD modeling of parts and assemblies
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on their own initiative
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience creating engineering drawings and work instructions
• Experience leading a team of engineers
• Knowledge of oxygen systems and oxygen cleanliness
• Experience with component-level or subsystem level test planning and execution
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools – Solidworks
• Programming – Matlab or Python
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level II ($101,000-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr-level ($120,500-158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department; travel estimated to be <5%

• #LI-AM1

Stratolaunch General Application. 

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking an Sr-, Staff, or Principal-level Electrical Engineer.   This position is responsible for design, development, meeting requirements, performing verification activities, and test execution for the carrier aircraft and/or hypersonic vehicle electronics, with an emphasis on electrical power systems.  You must be comfortable with component/system development and integration.   Candidates must have an aerospace development background and relevant experience in aerospace systems integration.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support electrical design, including working with existing systems and making modifications, as needed
• Use of standard aircraft components to create control, data, signal, and power circuits
• Support aircraft electrical technology development including developing the requirements, capabilities, and implementing a development plan
• Create wiring diagrams and harness diagrams for electrical systems
• Peer review, provide necessary feedback, and approve wiring diagrams and harness diagrams
• Represent the electrical systems in mission control, continuing console operator duties and contributing to flight test activities
• Develop electrical system requirement verification activities
• Perform electrical system test verification activities
• Perform design and/or analysis to support component development
• Support test procedure development and test execution
• Write interface control documents (ICDs) and support integrated testing
• Develop engineering tools, as needed, to complete their tasking
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Avionics Chief Engineer on a weekly and monthly basis
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, avionics, aircraft and/or hypersonic vehicle integration
• Knowledge of EWIS standards for electrical component hookups
• Experience architecting, maintaining, and debugging electrical power systems (28VDC & 115VAC, 400Hz)
• Experience writing test procedures and reports
• Experience with aerospace relays such as MIL-PRF-83536 (or equivalent)
• Experience creating and maintaining wiring harness diagrams
• Familiarity with aircraft power components such as TRUs, circuit breakers, and bus feeds
• Experience with technical aerospace leadership, including working with sub-contractors
• Experience with requirements development, with a focus on electrical interface management
• Experience with risk management
• Facilitation skills and ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to gain support or resolve concerns
• Ability to work on their own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with government agencies
• Experience with hypersonic programs
• Experience performing Electrical Load Analysis (ELA)
• Experience with 747 electrical systems
• Experience with IEEE 802.3 networking standards and IRIG-106 telemetry standards
• Experience with PCB design, bring-up, and integration
• Experience with being on a Mission Control Center console during flight operations
• Security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Experience in Matlab, Python, or equivalent software
• Siemens Capital, AutoCAD Electrical, or equivalent wiring diagram software
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Siemens Capital/Mentor Graphics
• CAD software such as Siemens NX, Catia, Solidworks or equivalent
• Labview
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Sr-level ($120,500-158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Principal Level ($181,000-$237,300): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 20+ years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position on-site based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department. Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Sr- or Staff-level Avionics Engineer to lead an air-launched hypersonic vehicle avionics team through continued design, integration, and testing.  You will be considered a subject matter expert and provide technical leadership and mentorship to a group of avionics engineers. This position will include coordination, planning, scheduling, and testing of a broad range of avionics components.  Candidates must have an aerospace development background and relevant experience in aerospace systems integration.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead architecture, design, analysis, integration, and testing of avionics and electrical systems
• Maintain configuration control over major avionics system elements including wiring diagrams, 3D CAD, work orders, etc.
• Coordinate with and lead engineers across a broad spectrum of disciplines to understand requirements and engineer technical solutions
• Lead coordination with other subsystem leads to develop requirements, test plans, and procedures
• Perform analysis to gauge system design adequacy and performance to meet program requirements
• Coordinate with external customers to support range integration, launch license applications, safety documentation and analyses, and payload integration
• Review presentations and support design reviews throughout vehicle development
• Support ground and/or flight test, as required
• Evaluate risks and risk mitigation plans to determine if the risks and mitigations are appropriate.
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the program Chief Engineer on a weekly and monthly basis
• Communicate with the Chief Engineer of Avionics to address avionics needs such as training, test equipment upgrades, avionics-specific processes, etc.
• Management of direct reports (1:1s, reviews, etc.)
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: electrical engineering, avionics, experimental aircraft and/or launch vehicle integration
• Experience managing the manufacturing of an aerospace vehicle
• Experience with integration of avionics wiring and hardware into an aerospace vehicle
• Experience with aerospace vehicle bring-up, including ground tests, flight tests, and system validation
• Experience with telemetry systems and IRIG-106 (CH4, CH10, CH7)
• Experience with data acquisition and instrumentation (thermocouples, accelerometers, strain gages, pressure transducers)
• Experience with electrical power systems
• Experience creating and reviewing wiring diagrams and/or circuit schematics.
• Experience with electrical design analysis such as power budgets, thermal analysis, or RF budgets
• Ability to work on your own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Complex aerospace system development
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoW security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Experience in C/C++, Python, Matlab, or equivalent
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of environmental testing (vibration, thermal, shock)
• Experience with testing of RF avionics components such as RF transmitters, RF cabling, and RF antennas
• Experience with MIL-STD-461 Conducted Susceptibility (CS), Radiative Susceptibility (RS), and Radiative Emissions (RE) testing
• Knowledge of flight termination systems
• Experience supporting test activities from a control room environment
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoW security clearance

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Experience with data acquisition systems such as National Instruments, ACRA, TTC, Safran, or equivalent
• Experience with IADS
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – JIRA, JAMA, Confluence, or equivalent

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Sr Level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff Level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Level II or Sr-level Aerothermal and/or Thermal Analyst to support design, analysis, integration, and testing of hypersonic, air-launched vehicles.  An ideal candidate will have both aerothermal and thermal analysis experience.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform analytical and numerical analyses to evaluate the aerothermal and thermal performance and margins of Stratolaunch hypersonic vehicles
• Develop or utilize aerothermal and thermal models for a variety of hypersonic configurations
• Perform aerothermal and thermal analyses trade studies
• Analyze the potential material systems as candidates to upgrade the Stratolaunch Talon Thermal Protection System (TPS), including contributing to system trade studies, evaluating margin, weight, and predictions of the underlying vehicle structure
• Contribute to analysis tool development
• Support the preparation of business proposals to the US Government and industry
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, aerothermal analysis, thermal analyses, common TPS materials, and aircraft/aerospace vehicle design
• Experience with supersonic and/or hypersonic aircraft theory and analyses
• Experience with aircraft/aerospace development and/or test
• Ability to work on their own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain a security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Aerothermal analysis tools
• Thermal analysis tools
• Analysis tools – FEMAP or NX Simcenter
• Programming – Python (preferred), or Matlab

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with hot-structure metallic airframes and mixed thermal protection mechanisms
• Familiarity with heat exchanger dynamics for fuel-cooled ramjet or scramjet combustors
• Understanding of thermal control strategies for high-powered missile electronics and seekers
• Experience with hot-gas sealing and thermal isolation approaches for hypersonic vehicles
• Experience analyzing and anchoring analytic models with flight and ground test data
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Experience with CBAERO
• Experience with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) – Link3D or US3D (preferred)
• Experience with computer-aided design (CAD) software tools – NX (preferred), Solidworks, or CATIA
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Level II ($101,000-$146,500): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 2-5 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Sr-level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA.  Consideration for hybrid (partial remote/on-site work) work location arrangement for well-qualified candidates and remote (outside of CA) work location arrangement for exceptional candidates.
• Travel, as needed, to support the department.  Travel estimated to be <5%

Stratolaunch is seeking a Sr- or Staff-level Systems Engineer to oversee and support the Talon-A air-launched, hypersonic vehicle payloads mechanical, structural, and materials requirements and integration. An ideal candidate will have experience in vehicle integration and test, ideally with structural and/or materials focus.  This role involves interfacing with a multi-disciplinary engineering team, program management, and payload customers.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Overseeing and contributing to payload mechanical, structural, and materials requirements and integration
• Collaborates with the payload’s integration and test engineers, test team responsible engineers, payloads program leadership, and payload customers to define and implement vehicle payloads integration, test, and data collection activities
• Requirements development and tracking
• Ensures vehicle payloads are tested in a manner to meet customer requirements
• Participates in test planning, Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), test execution, vehicle troubleshooting and post-test data reviews
• Architects and optimizes data review methodology, as well as data review and data analysis tools
• Sets standards for test planning and documentation and ensure those standards are met
• Coordinates internally with multi-disciplinary team and externally with customers
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, and integrity in the fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATION & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications

• Knowledge of, and direct experience with, at least two of these disciplines (listed in order of priority): Systems Engineering, Mechanical Systems, Materials, Electrical and Avionics Systems, Propulsion Systems, GNC and Flight Controls, and Aerodynamics
• Experience contributing to the systems engineering content for a major technical review such as System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review or Critical Design Review

• Previous systems engineering experience
• Previous technical experience with Mechanical, Structural, and/or Materials Engineering
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Excellent written & verbal communication 
• Ability to acquire and maintain a security clearance

Required Skills

• MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
• Familiarity with CAD (Solidworks preferred)
• Familiarity with configuration management systems such as Jira
• Familiarity with requirement management systems such as Jama, Cameo, DOORS, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in small, dynamic engineering teams where each member often has multiple responsibilities
• Familiarity with structures, avionics, instrumentation, software, fluid systems, and/or liquid rockets (listed in order of priority)
• Experience maintaining aerospace industry standards for vehicle configuration and changes
• Experience with air-launched hypersonic vehicle development
• Experience with technical risk identification, management, and mitigation
• Experience defining, managing, and verifying requirements for hypersonic vehicles with hot-structure airframes
• Current DOD Secret security clearance

Preferred Skills

• Experience programming (Matlab, Python)
• Experience with CAD (Solidworks preferred)
• Experience with configuration management systems such as Jira
• Experience with requirement management systems such as Jama, Cameo, DOORS, etc.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE 

• Sr-level ($120,500-158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of relevant experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• This position is located in Mojave, CA.
• Travel estimated to be <10% in support of the program

To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Sr-, Staff-, or Principal level Propulsion or Mechanical Engineer to support design, integration, testing, operations, and maintenance of the Talon-A hypersonic aircraft rocket propulsion systems as a Deputy Lead. An ideal candidate will have both mechanical and fluid subsystem component design experience, as well as leadership experience. This Propulsion Deputy Lead position has growth potential to further technical leadership.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to the development, build, test, and operations of propulsion flight and ground hardware
• Perform structural, fluid, and thermal analysis of mechanical components and/or assemblies
• Develop and document test requirements, plans, procedures, and reports
• Create component and assembly drawings for flight and ground test hardware
• Assist mechanics in integrating all components and assemblies onto the aircraft and/or ground systems
• Test propulsion components and/or assemblies to prepare for integrated subsystem testing
• Develop engineering tools, as needed, to complete tasking
• Maintain inventory tracking of critical propulsion components
• Manage supplier relations with key vendors
• Technical ownership of clean rooms
• Manage engineering release schedule in conjunction with shop planning
• Track vehicle propulsion configuration
• Review and release drawings, work instructions, analysis reports, etc.
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Propulsion Lead
• Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: fluid subsystem design, mechanical design, component or assembly level mechanical or fluid testing, structural engineering, rocket testing, cryogenic fluid systems, electrical and/or instrumentation experience
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to explain rationale and/or resolve concerns
• Experience with fluid-mechanical component design and stress analysis
• Experience with 3D CAD modeling of parts and assemblies
• Experience with propulsion ground testing 
• Experience with component-level or subsystem level test planning and execution
• Experience troubleshooting complex systems
• Ability to work on their own initiative
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical leadership experience
• Personnel management experience
• Experience creating engineering drawings and work instructions
• Experience with liquid oxygen systems
• Liquid rocket engine testing experience
• Experience with component-level or subsystem level test planning and execution
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

Required Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools
• MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)

Preferred Computer Skills:

• Computer Aided Design tools – Solidworks
• Programming – Matlab or Python, Simulink/Simscape
• Familiarity with configuring data acquisition systems – Curtiss-Wright DAS Studio (preferred)
• Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Sr-level ($120,500-$158,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Staff-level ($157,000-$206,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience
• Principal-level ($181,000-$237,000): Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 20+ years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Special remarks regarding work environment, if applicable

• Position based in Mojave, CA
• Travel, as needed, to support the department; travel estimated to be <5%

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