• Design, prototype, and test an antenna feed array
• Become familiar with system models and be able to relate feed element characteristics to total system characteristics and performance
• Investigate alternate antenna feed technologies (printed patch, 3D printed waveguide, etc.) and become familiar with trade-offs
• Work with our team to establish the best technical direction
• Perform detailed design to achieve overall optimum performance in terms of beam shape, beam overlap, gain, efficiency, etc.
• Contribute to all phases of the antenna development life cycle (requirements, systems and circuit design, integration of RF and wireless circuits and systems, testing, and manufacturing activities)
• Create the related feed network and switching element design
• Work with others in the team to test and integrate a complete radio transceiver
• Develop calibration models

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience with a Bachelor’s, or a Master’s degree in an engineering discipline with an emphasis in electromagnetic theory and/or microwave circuits  
• Good, intuitive understanding of electromagnetics and optics in microwave systems (refraction, diffraction, Huygen’s principle, etc.)
• Experience in designing phased array antennas
• Experience in the design of patches, horns, or similar compact antennas
• Expertise in electromagnetic simulation tools like HFSS, CST, or FEKO
• Application of system simulation tools like Python or MATLAB
• Familiarity with range testing and ability to operate relevant test equipment
• Understanding of antenna theory and propagation
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and ability to work in a team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Broader experience of RF/microwave systems (particularly 10.7 GHz – 51.4 GHz)
• Experience with near field testing
• Design of microwave front ends (transmit and/or receive)
• Experience with space-qualified systems
• Familiarity with relevant manufacturing techniques

ITAR Requirements

SpinLaunch is required by the U.S. Government to comply with various space technology export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident (“green card holder”) or a protected individual as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.15) or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information on ITAR can be found here.

SpinLaunch is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Each individual has the right to work in a professional environment that promotes equal employment opportunity and prohibits discriminatory practices, including harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

You will report to, and collaborate closely with, the CFO & Chief Strategy Officer to plan corporate development strategy and lead related initiatives.  In this role, you will be responsible for analysis and recommendations to support strategic business opportunities, fundraising, and other investment related activities.

Your Role and Skills You Bring to the Team:

• Directly support executive leadership team with strategic financial data to facilitate decision making related to strategic business opportunities, fundraising, and other investment decisions

• Leverage deep knowledge of financial metrics and financial information to evaluate market opportunities, competitive positioning, and analysis of alternatives

• Provide expertise with operating and financial modeling and valuation analysis

• Manage the full lifecycle of investment and strategic business development opportunities

• Assist with evaluating the broader corporate financial strategy of SpinLaunch including resource management

• Synthesize large amounts of information, identify issues, proactively recommend effective strategy

• Monitor market trends to identify opportunities for growth

• Provide key leadership for the corporate development team, work closely with a small group of peers and senior leaders routinely, and have regular, direct interactions with C-Suite

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Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree required

• 5+ years of corporate development or investment banking experience within the aerospace & defense or technology industries

• Experience structuring complex problems and delivering insights and recommendations

• Expert conducting financial modeling with Microsoft Excel and translating it to effective presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint

• Ability to prioritize work streams appropriately and move among differing tasks quickly

Candidates must be able to obtain security clearance.

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ITAR Requirements

SpinLaunch is required by the U.S. Government to comply with various space technology export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).  All applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident (“green card holder”) or a protected individual as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.15) or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information on ITAR can be found here.  

SpinLaunch is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Each individual has the right to work in a professional environment that promotes equal employment opportunity and prohibits discriminatory practices, including harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

• Ultimate ownership of ensuring the successful operation of payloads on orbit

• Electrical architecture and design, product requirements, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, and documentation

• Flight production, development prototyping, vendor selection, and manufacturing

• Circuit and full product bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and confidence, acceptance and qualification testing

• Deliver flight hardware on time and active project management through schedule maintenance and status reports

• Multidisciplinary coordination with software, firmware, mechanical, PCB layout, environments, integration, harnessing, test, manufacturing, and production teams to deliver a fully functional product

• System engineering efforts to ensure design meets all intents and does not adversely impact other groups or designs

• Drive improvements in reliability and capabilities while minimizing cost and schedule

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Basic Qualifications:

• Engineering degree

• Ability to work autonomously in a demanding startup environment

• Schematic capture and PCB layout using EDA tools

• 1+ years of designing and delivering hardware

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with FPGA development and firmware development

• 2+ years of experience in full life-cycle hardware development, from concept through production

• 2+ years of experience in designing and implementing boards using FPGAs, MCUs, ethernet, I2C, SPI, ADCs, and DACs

• 2+ years of hands on experience in testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics

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ITAR Requirements

SpinLaunch is required by the U.S. Government to comply with various space technology export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident (“green card holder”) or a protected individual as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.15) or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information on ITAR can be found here.

SpinLaunch is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Each individual has the right to work in a professional environment that promotes equal employment opportunity and prohibits discriminatory practices, including harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

• Detailed design of RF circuits in satellite payloads and in electronically steered antennas (ESA)
• Selection and specification of components for RF circuits, including line amplifiers, HPA, LNA, mixers, cavity tuned band pass filters, microstrip and stripline printed components, high speed A/D and D/A converters, Terabit backplane switching and control components, power conditioning components, power and heat management components, hybrids, and ASIC
• Model RF system behavior and validate RF system performance
• Develop interfaces between RF circuits and antennas
• Evaluate and test new components and technologies
• Perform trade studies between cost and performance
• Estimate the development time, NRE costs, and recurring costs for various RF circuits
• Contribute to all phases of development life cycle (requirements definition, systems and circuit design, integration of RF and wireless circuits and systems, testing, and manufacturing activities)

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree, preferably a PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field  
• Minimum of 10 years of broad experience doing RF/Analog circuit design and board layout using the relevant tools
• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or some equally strong theoretical background
• Experience modeling, designing, and testing RF subsystems, preferably for satellite payloads
• Expertise in RF front end design and integration of RF subsystems
• Experience using HFSS, CST, ADS, Clarity, GRASP, GENESYS or similar RF simulation tools
• Experience doing microwave analysis (and electrical analysis in general) using Python, MATLAB, or similar tools
• Familiarity with directional couplers, circulators, and other waveguide components
• Practical and theoretical knowledge of mixed signal design
• Practical and theoretical knowledge of modulation methods and modem capabilities
• Ability to perform bench-level analog/power bring-up and troubleshooting using analog and digital test equipment like spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and vector signal generators
• Hands-on prototyping and debug experience testing complex RF subsystems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to manage suppliers, recruit talent, lead teams, and manage projects
• Experience in the design of satellite payloads and in managing radiation effects
• Experience designing, manufacturing, and testing space flight hardware
• Design of ASICs and hybrid modules
• Antenna or satellite system design experience
• Understanding of microwave propagation theory
• Experience operating and maintaining anechoic chambers
• Expertise in programming test equipment using languages like C++ and LabVIEW

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ITAR Requirements

SpinLaunch is required by the U.S. Government to comply with various space technology export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident (“green card holder”) or a protected individual as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.15) or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information on ITAR can be found here.

SpinLaunch is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Each individual has the right to work in a professional environment that promotes equal employment opportunity and prohibits discriminatory practices, including harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

SpinLaunch is a space technology company committed to revolutionizing access to space by enabling the rapid, cost-effective deployment of launch, satellites, and services. With backing from industry leaders in venture capital and engineering, we are primed to advance the commercialization of our end-to-end space solutions. At SpinLaunch, you'll be at the forefront of transforming the entire space landscape - creating a more affordable and sustainable space industry. Join us in our mission and be an integral part of a close-knit, collaborative team that strives in a fast-paced, innovative environment. This is a full-time, on-site position located at our Long Beach, CA headquarters.

Your Mission on the Team:

• Own the full lifecycle of a wide range of critical satellite structures, mechanisms, and thermal management devices – from concept through orbit

• Use CAD, programming environments, hand calcs, and spreadsheets to design for cost-effectiveness, reliability and robustness in launch and space environments

• Perform finite element and thermal analyses, characterize spacecraft structural dynamics, determine factors of safety, and predict on-orbit behavior

• Develop methods for highly-efficient placement of satellites within a launch vehicle fairing, design interfaces, and separation systems

• Solve complex engineering problems, implement creative solutions, rapidly iterate through designs, and react quickly to unforeseen challenges

• Assemble, integrate, and test hardware

• Collaborate effectively with an interdisciplinary team of highly-motivated engineers

• Generate drawings employing GD&T best practices

• Perform trade studies, cost estimation, vendor assessment, and inform project schedules

• Effectively communicate technical concepts and details with internal and external stakeholders

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Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years professional aerospace mechanical design/development experience

• Skill in using and creating software tools to model systems performance across a variety of disciplines (MATLAB, Python, Excel, etc.)

• Strong understanding of structural mechanics, materials, dynamics, and manufacturing methods

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or related field

• Strong interpersonal, verbal communication, and written communication skills

• Ability to rapidly expand application-specific knowledge and skills where necessary  

• Capacity to work autonomously  

• Passion for understanding complexity and finding answers to challenging questions

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years professional spacecraft design/development experience

• Master's degree in Engineering, or related field

• Previous experience with: (1) designing low-cost satellites intended for high production volumes (2) designing spacecraft for launch vehicle interfaces and analyzing launch loads, and/or (3) spacecraft assembly, integration, and test

• Breadth of understanding of other spacecraft subsystems and general knowledge of satellite operations

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ITAR Requirements

SpinLaunch is required by the U.S. Government to comply with various space technology export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).  All applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident (“green card holder”) or a protected individual as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.15) or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information on ITAR can be found here.

SpinLaunch is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Each individual has the right to work in a professional environment that promotes equal employment opportunity and prohibits discriminatory practices, including harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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In this role you will be responsible for developing software tools that measure and optimize the effectiveness and feasibility of advanced satellite communication constellations. This includes:

• Working with the engineering team to optimize constellation designs

• Developing optimization techniques and algorithms to solve complex telecom constellation design problems, such as beam placement and interference mitigation

• Using and creating software tools to model constellation performance, utilization, and lifecycles

• Modelling global market demand for communication services and constellation support infrastructure (ground stations etc.)

• Optimizing computational efficiency of in-house modelling tools

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Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, aerospace, or related field

• Experience developing in Python (especially numpy and pandas)

• Strong understanding and knowledge of 3D vector geometry and calculus

• Ability to rapidly expand application specific knowledge sets and skills where necessary

• Passion for understanding complexity and finding answers to challenging questions

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of related industry experience

• Higher degree (Masters or PhD) in related field

• Experience architecting and managing robust and extensible software codebases

• Experience in optimizing computationally intensive software

• Experience in solving complex multi-dimensional optimization problems

• Experience working on satcom or other telecommunication systems

• Experience modelling antenna radiation patterns

• Experience working on LEO satellite constellation(s)

• Experience in with LEO spacecraft and/or space mission top level design

ITAR Requirements

SpinLaunch is required by the U.S. Government to comply with various space technology export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident (“green card holder”) or a protected individual as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.15) or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information on ITAR can be found here.

SpinLaunch is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Each individual has the right to work in a professional environment that promotes equal employment opportunity and prohibits discriminatory practices, including harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Your Mission on the Team:

• Own the development of unique satellite designs across a variety of mission concepts 

• Create systems models representative of on-orbit conditions, informing dynamic trade spaces  

• Generate and maintain performance budgets  

• Manage and communicate electrical, mechanical, and software interfaces  

• Cost estimation, component selection, and vendor evaluation and coordination 

• Risk assessment and mitigation 

• Contribute to designs of unique launch vehicle interfaces 

• Conceptualize constellation deployment schemes 

• Contribute to the development of satellite constellation architectures 

• Communicate multi-disciplinary technical concepts and details with internal and external stakeholders 

• Work with design and test engineering to generate test plans 

• Inform satellite design & development schedules 

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Basic Qualifications: 

• 5+ years professional spacecraft design/development experience 

• Skill in using and creating software tools to model systems performance across a variety of disciplines (MATLAB, Python, Excel, etc.) 

• Strong understanding of spacecraft technologies, design principles, and concepts of operations 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or related field 

• Strong interpersonal, verbal communication, and written communication skills 

• Ability to rapidly expand application-specific knowledge and skills where necessary  

• Passion for understanding complexity and finding answers to challenging questions 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• 7+ years professional spacecraft design/development experience 

• Master's degree in Engineering, or related field 

• Previous experience with spacecraft and/or space mission top level design  

• Previous work on small LEO satellites or satellite constellations 

• Wide breadth of experience leading satellite systems development and testing 

• Experience with creating satellite simulations and models 

• Satellite operations experience 

ITAR Requirements

SpinLaunch is required by the U.S. Government to comply with various space technology export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).  All applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident (“green card holder”) or a protected individual as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.15) or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information on ITAR can be found here.

SpinLaunch is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Each individual has the right to work in a professional environment that promotes equal employment opportunity and prohibits discriminatory practices, including harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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