Jobs at AscendArc

Lead integrated planning, scheduling, and execution for complex satellite programs. Translate engineering deliverables into realistic schedules, manage dependencies and critical paths, incorporate procurement and manufacturing milestones, identify program risks, and coordinate engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and leadership teams. Maintain schedule baselines, support change control, facilitate milestone reviews, and present schedule status, risks, recovery plans, and required decisions to internal and customer stakeholders.

Own spacecraft power units from requirements through design, supplier management, verification, and acceptance. Design power electronics boards involving switching, protection, current limiting, conversion, interfaces, and fault handling. Perform part selection, schematic capture, worst-case and derating analysis, board bring-up, testing, and debugging. Manage supplier specifications and design reviews, support spacecraft electrical integration, and contribute to power budgets, grounding, EMI/EMC, and system architecture trades for a 15-year GEO mission.

Design and develop RF printed circuit payloads for satellite communications focusing on amplifiers, filters, transmission lines, and PCB-to-waveguide transitions. Build, test, iterate hardware, participate in design reviews, and apply best practices using tools like HFSS and Keysight ADS.

Lead end-to-end propulsion subsystem for a full-EP GEO spacecraft: define architecture, select suppliers, release long-lead procurements, specify and oversee propulsion testing and GSE, own EOR/station-keeping delta-V strategy, correlate in-orbit performance to models, and coordinate with Structures, GNC, Power, Systems, AIT, and mission ops.

Lead integration and verification for a satellite communications program. Own FlatSat architecture, AIT campaign flow, hardware/software integration, EGSE strategy, and verification. Perform early bench work, coordinate technicians and interns, and support launch-site activities including shipment, fueling, final integration, and range-side spacecraft operations.

Lead mechanical design, analysis, and validation of spacecraft structures, mechanisms, and thermal hardware. Perform FEA and tolerance analysis, develop CAD models and drawings, support prototyping, integration, and environmental testing (vibration, thermal, deployment), participate in design reviews, and mitigate technical risks through hands-on builds and test data collection.

Design, build, and integrate test fixtures, tooling, and support hardware for spacecraft structures and mechanisms. Plan and support functional, environmental, and qualification tests (thermal, vibration, shock, deployment, pressure). Lead test readiness, schedules, safe operations, and develop infrastructure and roadmaps to execute spacecraft qualification.