Program Chief Engineer

🏢 Turion Space · 📍 Irvine, CA · 💼 onsite · ⏰ FullTime

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Turion is developing the critical infrastructure of the space economy. We're doing this by building vertically integrated hardware and software: DROID, our line of space vehicles, and Starfire, our software suite covering simulation, modeling, planning, and operations. We're a group of people who fell in love with the future sci-fi promised us, and we're building it into reality. We build hard things. We build them well. And we're just getting started.

We are seeking an exceptional Program Chief Engineer to act as technical lead for missions relying on highly maneuverable and agile small satellites, beginning with the GEO Space Domain Awareness mission set. This senior technical leadership role owns technical architecture and baseline across all facets of the mission. The Program Chief Engineer ensures that all aspects of the mission, from requirements decomposition and traceability to mission capability verification, are properly defined, progressed, and documented to meet both customer and mission success criteria.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Chief Engineering Leadership

Serve as technical lead and authority for assigned programs, owning end-to-end satellite architecture and ensuring appropriate technical progress throughout the program lifecycle

Drive resolution of complex cross-disciplinary technical issues, making authoritative architectural decisions that balance performance, cost, and schedule

Lead teams through all technical milestones including, SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and PSR, and post-launch operations

Interact directly with customers and suppliers as the primary technical point of contact to ensure mission success

Mission Definition & Technical Baseline

Own and maintain system-level budgets ensuring the technical baseline demonstrably meets requirements and technical performance measures (mass, power, delta-V, pointing, data, link, MTF, etc.)

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Turion Space Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Mission-critical aerospace systems reliability combined with intense startup agility and a hands-on hardware/software integration mindset.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Overly bureaucratic mindset or slow-moving defense-contractor mentality.
2. Inability to troubleshoot physical hardware or debug low-level embedded code live.
3. Lack of safety-first rigor when dealing with propulsion or orbital assets.

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I design rugged space systems that survive extreme environments without losing sight of rapid iteration and launch velocity.

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