- Optical and electrical harness design – through delivered hardware. Own the design and selection of the antenna’s wiring harness across both domains: electrical wiring, optical fiber, connectors, and interconnects — including controlled-impedance design and impedance matching where signal integrity depends on it. Ownership does not end at drawing release; it ends when functional hardware meets requirements.
- Sensing and signal interfaces. Own the on-structure sensors and their integration, routing, and signal interfaces.
- Requirements and supplier decisions. Define harness and connector requirements and drive component selection and supplier evaluation. Make the call, document the rationale, and keep the program moving.
- Qualification for flight. Take harness, connectors, and fiber through qualification for the flight environment, and own the results — including the failures — until the hardware is proven.
- Routing and integration on a deployable structure. Develop routing, strain-relief, and integration approaches compatible with a large deployable spacecraft structure.
- Documentation others can build to. Create harness drawings, wire lists, and interface documentation precise enough to manufacture and integrate from without interpretation.
- Anomaly resolution across the lifecycle. Support assembly, integration, and test, and drive harness-related anomalies to root cause and lasting correction throughout the entire product lifecycle.
How you work Bias for action. You move quickly from problem to decision to a next step. You distinguish choices that can be tested and adjusted on the bench from decisions that require deeper validation before flight, and you act with urgency on both.
Extreme ownership. You own the harness outcome end to end — across both optical and electrical domains and across design, supplier, qualification, and integration. When a dependency threatens the build, you engage the people needed to resolve it, communicate the impact, and drive a recovery plan. The hardware working is your responsibility, not someone else’s.
Relentless follow-through. You define what “done” means before you start — and “done” is functional hardware that meets requirements, not a released drawing. You inspect your own progress, surface stalled work early, and close the loop.
High standards and direct communication. You use facts and data to judge whether a design will survive and perform, you raise problems candidly and early, and you take responsibility for solving them.
Presence where the hardware is. You spend time at the bench and on the integration floor. You handle the hardware, listen to the technicians building and testing it, and use firsthand observation to make better decisions.