Chief Engineer, Autonomy — Space Domain (R5150)
Core
Senior technical authority defining, delivering, and sustaining autonomy capabilities for national-security space missions, converting distributed space, ground, and payload resources into timely data products.
Role type
Principal space autonomy systems architect
Builds
Mission-ready autonomy systems for heterogeneous space enterprises (satellites, payloads, ground systems)
Domain
National security, space domain, autonomous systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Space domain autonomy architecture, multi-constellation tasking, sensor fusion, hybrid on-board/off-board processing, automated exploitation, data dissemination standards, system verification, risk management
Preferred skills
Experience with multi-orbit environments, contested operations, analyst-in-the-loop workflows
Technologies
Electro-optical/infrared, SAR, RF, SIGINT, cloud/edge compute
Responsibilities
Define autonomy architecture for end-to-end tasking and dissemination; Lead development of automatic behaviors for multi-constellation tasking; Architect hybrid on-board and off-board processing strategies; Design advanced exploitation capabilities including sensor fusion and anomaly detection; Govern data dissemination standards and interfaces; Own technical risk and verification strategy.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC