Overview In this role you drive mission architecture for new space pursuits, translating customer objectives into end-to-end systems concepts and requirements. You lead cross-disciplinary design efforts and guide capture activities to position Redwire for major contracts. You will mentor engineers, develop MBSE artifacts, and engage customers to shape solutions. This is a senior technical leadership opportunity at a space-focused company accelerating humanity's expansion.
Compensation / Benefits- competitive benefits package
Responsibilities- Lead architecture development for new pursuits including CONOPS, functional flows, mission threads and design strategy
- Decompose objectives into mission-level and system-level requirements, performance budgets, and ICDs
- Perform architecture trades (design, orbit, payload, propulsion sizing, comms)
- Create capture artifacts (solution strategy, technical volumes, BOEs, WBS inputs, risk registers, discriminator mapping, oral presentations)
- Coordinate with propulsion, GNC/ADCS, power, thermal, avionics, payloads, ground segment, autonomy, and FSW teams
- Architect RPO-capable missions with sensing, autonomous operations envelopes, and relative navigation strategy
- Engage customers to refine objectives and support proposals, white papers, RFIs/RFPs, and color team reviews
- Develop MBSE artifacts, baselines, and traceability to drive disciplined systems engineering
- Mentor staff and ensure engineering excellence, configuration control, and transparent decision-making
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication with diverse engineers and leaders to achieve objectives
Key requirements- 16+ years in the space industry on design, integration, testing, and operations of space flight hardware
- Deep mission and space vehicle architecture expertise across multiple orbital regimes
- Hands-on RPO architecture and mission design experience
- Proficient with mission modeling tools (STK, MATLAB)
- Advanced requirements engineering and MBSE experience (SysML/Cameo, DOORS/Jama)
- Proven capture/proposal experience including technical volumes, BOEs, and oral presentations
- Ability to travel 20% (domestic; some international)
- US Citizenship; Secret clearance minimum (TS/SCI strongly preferred)
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Ability to work with a diverse team of engineers and leaders
- Mentorship and engineering leadership
- Mission modeling and systems engineering
- MBSE including SysML and Cameo
- Requirements management tools (DOORS/Jama)
