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Own the end-to-end commercial and civil space business development process, including customer discovery, lead generation, opportunity qualification, pipeline management, pricing, market sizing, proposals, and deal closure. Partner with engineering, product, and mission architecture teams to deliver integrated satellite solutions across remote sensing, satcom, and orbital infrastructure markets. Ensure smooth transitions from pre-sales to execution while managing strategic customer relationships.

Lead mission formulation and architecture for EO/IR and persistent infrared/MW missions. Perform mission-level analyses, define requirements and top-level budgets, design payloads and constellations, run trade studies using software/code, and coordinate with instrument, engineering, and science teams to deliver cost-effective space mission solutions.

Lead mission formulation and architecture: develop mission concepts from customer needs, perform mission-level analyses and top-level budgets, define requirements and design for spacecraft and RF/optical instruments, run engineering trade studies using code/tools, evaluate constellation configurations, and coordinate across disciplines.

Serve as technical lead for a designated space mission across concept, development, verification, and on-orbit operations. Translate customer objectives into requirements and ICDs, manage requirements traceability, subsystem budgets, risk, design changes, and reviews. Coordinate cross-functional teams (systems, hardware, software, data, ground, operations), interface with customers, and improve engineering processes and tools.

Lead exploration and development of novel EO/IR payload concepts, build simulations and radiometric models, define system requirements, perform feasibility and trade studies, support R&D proposals and demonstrations, and collaborate across product, applied science, mission systems, and business development to translate early-stage ideas into technical architectures and customer-facing capabilities.

Implement and optimize RF DSP algorithms in HDL for real-time FPGA execution, prototype algorithms in Python and port to ARM SoCs, collaborate on instrument bring-up, calibration and system integration with RF hardware teams, author design documentation and test reports, and work in a hybrid Mountain View office.

Lead mission-level systems engineering from concept through on-orbit operations: develop mission concepts, requirements, system models, CONOPS and budgets; drive cross-disciplinary trades, manage V&V and reviews, mitigate risks, serve as primary technical customer interface, and provide technical direction across hardware, software, ground, and operations teams.

Build and operate production pipelines that convert raw infrared satellite frames into calibrated, orthorectified, analysis-ready products. Optimize pipeline latency and scale, implement workflow orchestration, build monitoring and operational tooling, collaborate with remote sensing scientists to productionize algorithms, participate in on-call rotations, and diagnose and fix data quality and processing failures.