Jobs at Lux Aeterna

Owns vehicle-level systems engineering for reusable spacecraft missions from requirements and subsystem integration through environmental testing, launch, return, and reflight. Responsibilities include managing vehicle budgets and interfaces, supporting payload customers and launch providers, leading verification programs, conducting trade studies and failure investigations, defining requalification criteria, and transferring vehicle knowledge to mission operations. The role requires hands-on spacecraft engineering experience, cross-disciplinary technical judgment, and collaboration in an onsite aerospace startup environment.

Own commercial sales for reusable satellite services, converting demand from payload developers, research and manufacturing companies, and hardware makers into signed, revenue-bearing contracts. Responsibilities include originating and closing hosted payload, flight qualification, and recurring mission-service deals; structuring pricing and repeatable agreements; leading proposals and negotiations; coordinating with engineering and counsel; and maintaining an accurate commercial pipeline.

Owns end-to-end execution of government aerospace flight programs from contract award through requirements, development, integration, flight, and closeout. Responsibilities include integrated scheduling, critical-path management, risk and change control, cost-to-complete reporting, customer and contract deliverables, review gates, and cross-functional execution across engineering and operations. The role also establishes scalable program-management processes and supports multiple concurrent missions.

Leads the engineering organization responsible for designing, building, testing, integrating, and flying reusable satellite hardware. Responsibilities include scaling the team, recruiting senior engineers, owning schedules and design reviews, establishing requirements and configuration processes, managing suppliers, resolving risks and anomalies, and partnering with program management. The role requires extensive spacecraft or launch vehicle experience, engineering leadership, and a successful record delivering complex aerospace hardware through flight.

Develop and validate safety-critical flight software for a reusable satellite platform. Responsibilities include architecting Linux-based embedded systems, autonomous operations, fault detection and recovery, spacecraft communications, telemetry, distributed subsystem software, and SIL/HITL testing. The engineer will create automated test pipelines, support integration and on-orbit commissioning, and collaborate with GNC, avionics, and mission operations teams.

Oversee the entire lifecycle of spacecraft missions, from program planning through launch to recovery, while building and managing the mission operations team.