Lead Payload Engineer

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Who we are: 

EOI Space specializes in developing and deploying a network of satellites in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) to provide ultra-high-resolution Earth imagery.  We aim to deliver timely and actionable data for commercial and defense applications. 

We are on our way to achieving many industry firsts.  This demands an ambitious team that revels in leaning into challenges, getting hands on, and working together.  Does this sound like you?  EOI Space is looking for a talented Lead Payload Engineer with a strong background in the fundamentals of electro-optical payload development and related image processing to maintain wholistic knowledge of the overall payload, its interfaces, and concept of operations.  The location for this hybrid role is Seattle, Washington. 

What you will do: 

In this role, you will hold broad responsibility for cross-functional collaboration with other subsystem leads, to ensure overall functional, structural, design, interface, and performance requirements of the payload are addressed. While this is a lead role, as in any small team, the majority of your time will be spent on tasks related to the design, build, and test of the payload.  

This role will manage engineering and sub-contractor teams associated with payload specific subsystems and structures, ensuring they have tasking and are adhering to the SoW, in addition to focusing on overall management and execution of the payload subsystem component of the mission architecture, which includes managing the payload schedule and budget.    

Responsibilities: 

• Lead the overall development of the payload, ultimately delivering a system (internally) that meets performance, cost, and schedule objectives 

• Define requirements and traverse trade studies throughout the various phases of development and integration. 

• Define and lead on-ground payload assembly, integration, test, and calibration at all phases of development; define and lead on-orbit payload calibration 

• Develop and manage EOI’s payload team; effectively collaborate with and manage subcontractors 

• Collaborate with other subsystem leads on the development of the spacecraft overall 

• Simulate payload performance to aid in payload development  

• Collaborate with software engineers in the development and implementation of the overall image processing pipeline 

• Work with company leadership in defining and implementing roadmaps for future capabilities 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s of Science degree or higher in Physics, Engineering, Remote Sensing or equivalent, with each higher level degree counting as an additional 2 years of experience 

• A minimum 12 years of progressively responsible experience in the engineering field, including hands-on experience in multiple payload technologies (applications of, operations and commissioning of) 

• A minimum of 5 years experience in a leadership role, to include managing technical teams and acting as primary customer interface, activity planning and development, staffing, cost and schedule budgeting and management, cross-functional collaboration and support to enterprise test activities 

• Ability to communicate highly complex technical concepts and ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences 

• Proven experience in payload research, development, execution, and imagery products and applications  

• Experience with requirements analysis, decomposition, and allocation 

• Experience in spacecraft operations, particularly the LEOP phase and paylaod comissioning

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