Technical Program Manager

2 hours, 38 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Project and Program Management

K2 Space Corporation

K2 Space builds high-powered satellite platforms and satellite buses for missions across LEO, MEO, and GEO, emphasizing higher payload power, large payload mass, vertical integration, and in-house manufacturing.

Defense and Space Manufacturing
51-200
Founded 2022
$180M raised

Description

  • Define, mature, and negotiate mission concepts, including payload integration studies, mission analysis, system architecture trades, system integration designs, and concept of operations development.
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, payload interfaces, spacecraft capabilities and requirements, and concepts of operations.
  • Serve as the primary technical interface for early customer engagement and lead technical discussions, TEMs, study reviews, and technical negotiations.
  • Coordinate cross-functional early study efforts with vehicle engineering, avionics, software, propulsion, thermal, and AI&T teams.
  • Support mission-level engineering for early technical engagement, requirements formulation and negotiation, concept and architecture studies, payload-to-bus compatibility, proposal-phase activities, and program execution.
  • Represent K2 Space in critical customer engagements and ensure customer requirements are understood and aligned with company capabilities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience in the aerospace or space industry working with spacecraft or space systems.
  • Direct experience designing, developing, integrating, or testing spacecraft or space systems.
  • Strong understanding of spacecraft subsystems, space system architectures, and mission modeling and simulation.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Master’s degree or above in an engineering discipline (preferred).
  • 10+ years of experience in the aerospace or space industry working with spacecraft, launch vehicles, airborne systems, or payloads (preferred).
  • Experience working directly with National Security customers and systems (preferred).
  • Satellite constellation modeling, simulation, and analysis experience, with intuitive understanding of multibody dynamics (preferred).
  • Payload performance modeling and analysis experience across Electro Optical, Radio Frequency, Infrared, Communications, Networking, and Position Navigation and Timing systems (preferred).
  • Deep understanding of national security enterprise ground systems and architectures, including command and control, networking, tasking, planning, scheduling, processing, dissemination, and tracking software architectures (preferred).
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time (preferred).
  • Must be a U.S. person or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $125,000 to $250,000 plus equity.
  • Compensation is determined based on knowledge, skills, education, and experience level.
  • Comprehensive benefits package.
  • Paid time off.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Life insurance.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Additional perks and company benefits.

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