Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, or related engineering discipline; advanced degree preferred.
- 8+ years of professional experience specifically designing harnesses, with preference given to spacecraft or aerospace applications. Demonstrated progression into multi-program architectural leadership.
- Proven track record of defining spacecraft-wide harness standards, interface conventions, or design automation tools adopted across multiple programs or vehicle lines.
- Deep expertise in EMI/EMC, grounding architecture, signal integrity, and system-level verification strategies for flight harness systems.
- Experience architecting harness layouts that integrate across full spacecraft configurations, including complex routing, multi-module assemblies, and deployable elements.
- Demonstrated accountability for program-level delivery outcomes spanning multiple teams and workstreams.
- Experience defining or standardizing verification and validation processes, reliability standards, or derating guidelines used across an organization.
- Track record of designing reusable tooling, templates, or automation that measurably improved design velocity or quality across teams.
- Experience overseeing supply chain and manufacturability strategies for flight harness hardware.
- Strong ability to coordinate across teams, influence without authority, and shape technical alignment in cross-organizational settings.
- Experience coaching and developing engineers at multiple career levels; Demonstrated investment in growing senior technical talent.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience shaping cross-org alignment and maintaining composure and clarity under program pressure and influencing executive leadership on technical strategy, investment priorities, and organizational direction.
- Willing to travel up to 20% of the time.
Additional requirements
- Ability to maintain or obtain TS//SCI clearance
- Work Location—this role will be onsite full-time at our Centennial, CO or our Long Beach, CA location. Occasional remote work possible.
- Work environment—the work environment; temperature, noise level, inside or outside, or other factors that will affect the person's working conditions while performing the job.
- Physical demands—the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.
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