Mission SEIT Engineer

Join a team where your impact reaches beyond the stars! At Terran Orbital, you’re not just part of the system – you’re a vital force propelling our mission forward. As trailblazers in satellite manufacturing and aerospace innovation, we shatter boundaries daily to deliver groundbreaking solutions that power our nation’s defense and commercial missions. We are a unique, fast growing, and trusted team dedicated to swiftly and efficiently designing, building, launching, and operating state of the art satellites for advanced mission constellations.

If you’re driven by purpose, inspired by challenges, and ready to leave your mark on the universe, you’ll find a home and endless opportunities for growth here. Together, let’s redefine what is possible in orbit and beyond!

Terran Orbital is seeking an experienced Staff Mission Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) Engineer to join our dynamic team. Reporting to the Sr. Director, Platforms & Mission Engineering, the Staff Mission SEIT Engineer will lead, work closely with, and be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team leading the cradle-to-grave technical definition of all aspects of a space domain solution—from direct customer engagement during the business development and capture stages to deriving technical requirements from customer mission capability.

Mission SEIT Engineers at Terran Orbital support the end-to-end mission space of key technological importance to the company. Mission SEIT Engineers will architect and drive key elements for missions, capabilities, system functional behavior, and system performance to support innovative, high-capability, high-reliability products and programs.

• Supports customer engagements and related engineering mission architecture and analysis products to shape customer requirements at the mission level and provide guidance at lower levels of abstraction
• Derives technical requirements from customer defined mission level needs, identify, and manage technical risks and opportunities
• Perform systems engineering across all aspects of developing a space domain solution that may impact one or multiple missions and programs – from direct customer engagement that drives technical approaches to deriving requirements and architectures for mission capability needs
• Designing and developing optimal mission architectures and detailed solutions to complex space domain challenges for various remote sensing, RF, and optical applications
• Utilizing Subject Matter Expertise and applying surge support for the troubleshooting of focus areas
• Ensuring knowledge capture and knowledge transfer by working with and mentoring engineering members
• Engaging and supporting company tactical and strategic special projects
• Mission Concept of Operations refinement, mapping, and application
• Mission and system-level design activities to include remote sensing or communication architectures
• System Integration, Verification, and Validation definition and execution
• Mission Operations and systems tasking
• Support proposal/capture efforts through technical engagement, writing, and supporting analysis

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field is required
• 8+ years of experience in mission engineering and analyses working with multifunctional teams within space-domain missions
• Experience defining and executing Mission Con Ops and decomposing Ops Con
• Has technical leadership experience on a large program for the full Product Lifecycle, leading to a positive product outcome.
• Experience with risk, issue, and opportunity management
• Proven ability to deliver effective communication verbally, written, and through well-crafted presentations across all levels of an organization, including executive leadership
• Ability to self-govern with minimal supervision, establish workload priorities, and utilize efficient time management practices to achieve programmatic or strategic initiatives
• U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain DoD clearance

• Engineering Master's Degree in space systems
• Experience and success with space-based encrypted communications and radar…