Principal Systems Engineer

🔥 15 hours ago

🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Systems Engineer

👻 Ghost score 10%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

AST SpaceMobile

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

Consulting • Logistics • Travel

AST SpaceMobile is on a mission to create the first and only space-based cellular broadband network, aiming to provide uninterrupted coverage across the globe and eliminate connectivity gaps. Through innovative technology, they seek to make broadband accessible to all, partnering with mobile network operators to enhance global communication capabilities.

📋 Description

• Serve as the lead technical interface between AST and launch vehicle providers in technical interchange meetings, working groups, and mission integration reviews • Serve as AST's technical authority at the launch site • Lead spacecraft processing, integration, encapsulation, and launch operations • Own, negotiate, and maintain Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and related interface requirements through formal configuration control • Lead launch vehicle compatibility and coordinate integration analyses covering mass properties, structural loads, coupled loads analysis, environments, thermal, RF, electrical, separation, and deployment • Define and track launch-related requirements, verification plans, and mission assurance deliverables • Ensure launch vehicle requirements flow down into spacecraft and ground design • Support launch vehicle provider evaluation and selection through technical assessments and trade studies • Lead technical launch readiness reviews • Provide go/no-go technical recommendations to AST leadership • Coordinate with launch vehicle, range, facility, and internal teams across multiple sites

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field required • Minimum of 8 years of aerospace systems engineering experience • At least 3 years in launch vehicle integration, launch vehicle interface management, or launch site operations • Experience must include at least one spacecraft or payload that has flown • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to lead and influence launch providers, range and facility personnel, and internal teams without direct authority • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to brief technical and executive audiences and negotiate technical positions with external partners • Sound judgment and composure when making technical decisions under schedule pressure and during launch campaigns • Ability to operate in ambiguity and define paths forward when requirements or interfaces are incomplete • Meticulous attention to detail in ICDs, verification records, and launch documentation • Ability to manage multiple providers and competing priorities • Self-motivated and effective working independently in a remote setting • Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) proficiency • Ability to work at launch site and processing facilities, including cleanroom, hazardous operations, and outdoor environments • Ability to work extended and irregular hours during launch campaigns • Travel up to 20% • Ability to obtain and maintain access to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Kennedy Space Center • U.S. person status required for access to export-controlled launch vehicle data

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote position with a dedicated home office and reliable internet • Opportunity to work on a global cellular broadband network in space • Equal opportunity employment