Mission Assurance Engineer

The role

The Mission Assurance Engineer owns the end-to-end strategy to ensure spacecraft are safe, reliable, and mission ready. This person will be embedded with design, test, and operations teams to drive vehicle safety architecture and risk reduction.

What you will do

• Own the vehicle safety architecture to meet internal and external safety and reliability requirements.
• Assess pre-flight risks and potential mitigations with design, analysis, and operations teams.
• Perform and review FMECA, FTA, PRA, and RAM analyses.
• Define and validate spacecraft fault management and FDIR architecture.
• Work with avionics, software, and operations teams to implement fault management strategies.
• Support on-console operations as the Mission Assurance representative.
• Drive in-flight anomaly resolution.
• Ensure lessons learned feed back into design and FDIR improvements.
• Champion a culture of mission assurance.
• Report to program leadership on RAMS status, residual risk, and flight readiness.

Required qualifications

• Master’s degree in an engineering or science discipline.
• Proficiency with reliability tools (e.g., FMECA, FTA, reliability block diagrams).
• Understanding of fault tolerance, redundancy management, and failure detection/isolation/recovery.
• Technical knowledge of spacecraft systems and operations (e.g., communications, orbital mechanics, avionics, propulsion, thermal control, life support systems).
• Strong written and verbal communication of technical information.
• Able to effectively manage projects and tasks while meeting aggressive deadlines.
• Thrives under pressure and is resilient in the face of technical challenges.
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.

Nice to have

• Experience developing and validating FDIR logic, watchdog strategies, and fault response sequences.
• Previous experience in a customer-facing role working through design requirements, test acceptance, and verification (especially with a government customer such as CNES/ESA/NASA).
• Passion for advancing the commercial space industry and human spaceflight.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance is provided for those willing to relocate including visa sponsorship where applicable.

Before you apply

• All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.
• Visa sponsorship where applicable.

About the company

The Exploration Company is building spacecraft for humanity.