Maxar Technologies
Engineering Manager, Frontend Platform
Westminster, CO | $115K - $164K
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or physics, or equivalent degree or experience
- System budgeting and performance analysis
- Flight software
- Demonstrated knowledge of Bus and Instrument Integration & Test
- Applicants must have broad leadership and deep engineering, manufacturing, software, and testing background experience
- Applicant must have familiarity with aerospace industry best practices, with the demonstrated ability to select and apply commercial or government standards as needed or directed
- Ability to multitask and support multiple projects
- Graduate studies may substitute for required work experience
- Low Earth Orbit Imaging Satellite operations experience including tasking, troubleshooting, and anomaly resolution
- Government security clearance at the Top Secret or higher level; Experience with software development, operations, and/or verification & validation
- Familiarity with embedded and ground software capabilities and interfaces
- Experience with all phases of spacecraft integration and test related activities ranging from proposal development through on orbit commissioning operations
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills
- remote permitted with expectation that candidate will travel as the role and business needs require
- A seasoned, experienced professional that uses their understanding of their expertise to resolve a wide range of issues in creative ways
- Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors
Responsibilities
- You will work with executives and senior leadership, functional managers, spacecraft subsystems engineers, embedded and ground software engineers, system engineers, subject manager experts, program and project managers, ground operations engineers, and both internal and external customers
- The Principal Engineer is responsible for developing and leading the development of integrated mission solutions spanning space, ground and operations segments, and driving improvements in related product areas within the company as an outcome of your work
- Leads and facilitates cost-effective methods of the design, development, testing and troubleshooting space systems and equipment for all phases of product development, manufacturing, integration, testing, and launch site processing
- Oversees design, development (software and hardware), test, integration team activities
- Closely partner with test engineering to ensure that mission capabilities are appropriately tested
- Strong communication and presentation skills and the ability to successfully bring together diverse teams made up of multiple engineering and business disciplines
- Engage actively in all program risk management activities
- Be able to travel as necessary to ensure team cohesion & program success
- Generate technical and business artifacts and documents as required
- Willingness to travel as business needs require
Benefits
- Time for dedicated professional development, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness
- Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidate's unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience
- Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions
- 5,001-10,000 employees
- Transportation, Information Services, Software, Information Technology, Construction, Technology, IT Services, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace and Defense, Data Analytics
- Public Company
- Last round: Post IPO debt
- Last round: US$ 2.3B
- Westminster, Colorado
- Company Specialties:
Satellites, Earth imagery, Geospatial data, and Analytics
Company information
Maxar is a trusted partner and innovator in Earth intelligence and space infrastructure. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand and navigate our changing planet; deliver global broadband communications; and explore and advance the use of space. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven foundation of commercial technology to deliver solutions with unrivaled speed, scale and cost effectiveness. Our team members are inspired to harness the potential of space to help our customers create a better world.
