Senior Mission Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define, mature, and negotiate mission concepts
• Support initial payload integration studies, mission analysis, and system architecture trades
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture and payload interface designs
• Serve as the primary technical interface for early customer engagement and lead technical discussions
• Coordinate cross-functional early study efforts with vehicle engineering, avionics, software, and propulsion teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline
• 5+ years of experience in the aerospace or space industry
• Direct experience designing, developing, integrating, or testing spacecraft or space systems
• Strong understanding of spacecraft subsystems and mission modeling/simulation
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or above in an engineering discipline
• 10+ years of experience in aerospace, launch vehicles, or payloads
• Experience working directly with National Security customers and systems
• Satellite constellation modeling and simulation experience
• Payload performance modeling (EO, RF, IR, Communications, etc.)
• Understanding of national security enterprise ground systems and architectures
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

About the Company

K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown, unlocking performance levels previously out of reach across every orbit. Backed by leading investors, K2 is mass-producing high-power satellite platforms for missions from LEO to deep space.