Vice President of Engineering Greater Los Angeles, CA Area

The Company is seeking a Vice President of Engineering and Chief Engineer to lead technical delivery across spacecraft programs and build its engineering organization. The role holds final technical authority for system architecture, design decisions, technical risk, and engineering standards, while overseeing systems engineering and multiple technical disciplines. Responsibilities include assessing mission feasibility, adapting an established spacecraft platform to customer needs, leading payload integration, and guiding technical discussions with customers. The successful candidate will also lead milestone reviews, incorporate flight experience into future designs, grow engineering teams, and align technical practices across international engineering groups. Candidates should have an MSc or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, or a bachelor’s degree with equivalent career experience, along with 12+ years in spacecraft design and development and at least five years leading engineering teams. They should have owned a satellite’s system design through a full development cycle and flight, with deep systems engineering expertise and working knowledge across disciplines such as structures, thermal, power, communications, and flight software. Experience adapting platforms for customer payloads, making technical decisions within existing schedule and supply-chain constraints, presenting architectures to customers, and building engineering teams is required. Strong communication skills and eligibility to access export-controlled technical data are also required.

Hiring Company

EnduroSat