To end COPV failure in spaceflight. We need engineers who take ownership of structural design from concept to qualification — identifying risks early, improving design methods, and ensuring every product meets the highest standards.
THE WHAT
You own the structural design execution across development projects. From first concept to qualification, you drive robust designs forward, improve how we design, and ensure technical risks are identified before they become problems.
You ensure:
- Development projects reach qualification milestones with continuously improving design methods.
- Technical risks, design weaknesses, and process gaps are identified and resolved early.
- Your commitments are delivered on time without needing to be chased.
- You don’t just design products. You own how they are designed, improved, and brought into production.
YOUR MISSION
Lead development projects from concept to qualification: Own structural design execution across projects, hit milestones, and continuously improve design methods and standards.
→ High Performance: Relentless execution. Each project sharpens the next.
Drive your work to closure: Own decisions, actions, and open issues end-to-end. Unblock challenges, flag risks early, and deliver on commitments.
→ Accountability: Own your impact. Hold the bar. No excuses.
Collaborate across functions: Work closely with the development teams. Challenge assumptions, align decisions, and move forward together.
→ Togetherness: One team. Disagree, then commit.
Identify risks early: Surface design weaknesses, structural risks, and process gaps before they impact reliability or schedule.
→ Candor: Say the hard thing early. Truth drives better engineering.
Challenge and improve: Explore new methods, question existing approaches, and bring back solutions that make us better.
→ Playfulness: Break things. Learn fast. Bold experiments keep us ahead.