Systems Engineer

Location

This role will be onsite in our Broomfield, Colorado office.

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Skyloom, an IonQ company, is a telecommunications company founded with the mission to develop, deploy, and operate one of the fundamental pieces of tomorrow's space communication infrastructure to provide data transport services on a planetary scale. If you have a strong sense of purpose, focus, urgency, and willingness to compete, or if working on space lasers excites you, join our team to develop the future generation of space communication technology.

Skyloom is building the orbital infrastructure for the next renaissance in global connectivity. As Earth’s first space-based telecommunications company, we deliver fiberless, planetary‑scale data transport that dramatically increases bandwidth, availability, and resiliency—while reducing latency and total cost of operations. Our proprietary optical technology enables secure, ultra‑high‑capacity connections across our end‑to‑end, multi‑orbit network or within your own infrastructure, unlocking a new standard for global communications.

As a System Engineer, you are expected to oversee and drive the conceptual and architectural design of Skyloom´s products, ensuring successful delivery aligned with business priorities. You will interact with various stakeholders to manage projects and product portfolios, fostering collaboration among cross‑functional teams and acting as the primary contact for product‑related inquiries and decisions.

• Manage budgets: link, pointing, power, mass, and time allocations
• Oversee memory, physical configuration, and other system parameters.
• Define system architectures, interfaces, manage requirements definition, flow downs and traceability.
• Identify key requirements for each subsystem.
• Negotiate requirements between subsystems and perform trade‑off analyses to optimize system performance.
• Promote comprehensive requirement definition for subsystems.
• Develop system and subsystem validation and verification (V&V) strategies.
• Empower and lead system teams, encouraging Systems to take ownership of initiatives and tasks.
• Lead decision‑making processes and trade‑off analyses.
• Review and reach consensus on subsystem schedules, understanding dependencies and inter‑team interactions.
• Approve required tasks for each subsystem, estimating time and resource allocations.
• Conduct internal design reviews (similar to Critical Design Reviews) to ensure interface requirements are met.
• Provide training and knowledge‑sharing opportunities for Systems teams through internal courses or presentations.
• Ensure subsystems define their design processes and perform flow‑down of system requirements to lower‑level subsystems (typical L3 to L4 and below).
• Prepare typical documentation packages for each project phase and support project budgeting.
• Oversee the organization of Systems teams, whether structured per project or product (e.g., OCTs, OGS), with designated responsible leaders for each subsystem.
• Establish clear procedures and processes, enforce their use, and continuously improve system engineering practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and product management.
• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Skyloom employees must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce, as applicable.
  
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• Master's degree in a related field.
• Experience with disruptive technologies and product development.
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance standards and quality assurance processes.
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to engage with cross‑functional teams.
• Fluency in English, with strong written…