Senior Mission Concept Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA, or remote within the United States. Applicants must be a U.S. Person under ITAR/EAR regulations and must be eligible to obtain required export authorizations.

Salary: $250,000–$300,000 base salary annually, excluding benefits and bonus/incentive.

Company

Voyager Technologies develops space, defense, and national security technologies, including lunar landers, surface systems, and spacecraft.

What you will do

• Define and review end-to-end mission concepts for NASA, government, and commercial customers.
• Develop concepts and designs for lunar landers, rovers, surface power systems, and spacecraft.
• Create technical content for mission opportunities, proposals, customer presentations, and internal development programs.
• Develop system-level technical visions, architectures, requirements, budgets, margins, and bills of materials.
• Perform trade studies, first-order system sizing, and system-level analysis to support technical and program decisions.
• Lead cross-functional engineering discussions and translate customer requirements into product goals and actionable design tasks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or a related discipline, plus 10 years of relevant engineering experience; an advanced degree may substitute for equivalent experience.
• Experience in space system development, systems engineering, structures and thermal design, avionics, power systems, propulsion, orbital mechanics, electrical or mechanical systems, software and controls, modeling and simulation, or manufacturing.
• Experience developing technical proposal content and external customer presentations.
• Experience authoring and decomposing mission- and system-level requirements.
• Strong understanding of launch, space, and lunar environments.
• Must qualify as a U.S. Person under ITAR/EAR requirements and be eligible to obtain required export authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience with end-to-end mission solutions and mission architecture development.
• Experience writing and reviewing software scripts for automation and analysis.
• Knowledge of NASA and industry engineering standards.
• Experience working in an agile environment with Confluence and Jira.
• Eligibility to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible Time Off supporting work-life balance.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 401(k) plan with a 50% company match on contributions up to 8%.
• Wellness programs, gym membership options, and additional voluntary benefits.
• Opportunity to work in an innovative, mission-driven environment.