Jobs at Lux Aeterna

Own guidance, navigation, and control for a reusable satellite platform across orbit, deorbit, reentry, descent, and recovery. Lead GNC architecture, high-fidelity simulation, Monte Carlo analysis, FDIR, estimation, flight control software, HITL testing, mission planning, and flight operations. Serve as technical lead for GNC engineers, mentor teammates, support spacecraft integration and testing, and collaborate with software, avionics, propulsion, mechanical, aerothermal, and mission operations teams.

Lead composite structures and thermal protection system engineering for reusable reentry vehicles. Responsibilities include design, analysis, fabrication drawings, process specifications, vendor management, material qualification, testing, hands-on hardware build support, nonconformance investigations, and refurbishment planning. The role covers composite laminates, sandwich structures, bonded joints, TPS installation, inspection, repair, and flight hardware production.

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.

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.