Teams at Umbra Space

Manage multiple U.S. Government aerospace and defense programs across cost, schedule, technical performance, risk, contracts, and customer relationships. Develop roadmaps, budgets, forecasts, and status reports; coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams; support Agile and SAFe development; and serve as a business owner for contract technologies. Lead capture strategies, proposals, business development, and growth initiatives while overseeing complex space, remote sensing, and mission solutions programs.

Designs, prototypes, builds, and tests spacecraft hardware and mechanisms. Responsibilities include requirements collaboration, mechanical design documentation, work instructions, test planning, troubleshooting, and support for launch and test campaigns. The role partners with systems architects, technicians, manufacturing engineers, and other engineering teams to optimize spacecraft designs for performance and manufacturability.

Lead and sustain spacecraft and payload manufacturing processes for production and prototype builds. Develop work instructions, coordinate materials and technicians, train personnel, support design reviews, provide DFM guidance, resolve nonconformances, and perform root cause analysis. The role partners with engineering, quality, supply chain, and test teams to deliver reliable aerospace hardware, including assembly, integration, tooling, testing, and production process improvements.