# Systems Engineer, Spacecraft Operations (RPO)

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Colorado Springs, Colorado
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $126,000-$167,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

As a Spacecraft Operations Systems Engineer for RPO, you own how our spacecraft plan, rehearse, and fly close to other objects.

## Responsibilities

- Design and own RPO mission plans: relative motion design, approach and hold-point sequencing, delta-V budgets, and the timeline that ties them to comm passes, lighting, and ground contact

- Build passive safety into every approach, so that a missed burn, a dropped pass, or an off-nominal state doesn't put the vehicle on a collision trajectory

- Author the flight rules and procedures that govern close approach: keep-out volume enforcement, go/no-go gates, abort and breakout criteria, custody handoffs, and conjunction screening against both the target and third parties

- Own the mission operations plans and procedures for spacecraft programs across all phases, including LEOP, commissioning, on-orbit checkout, and operations

- Drive the pre-launch campaign from the ops side: write and run day-in-the-life and mission rehearsals, inject the failures, and turn every finding into a procedure change or a design change

- Work with AI&T as the operations voice, validating procedures and command sequences on flatsats and hardware-in-the-loop testbeds before they touch flight hardware

- Feed operational constraints back into GNC, flight software, ground software, and comms design

- Create and analyze the metrics used to debug and monitor vehicle and campaign performance

- Triage anomalies, root cause failures, and coordinate next steps under time pressure

- Train operators and mission crews on Anduril spacecraft and on RPO execution specifically

- Support demanding schedules during ground testing, launch windows, and on-orbit operations

- Work with other teams and government agencies to obtain required licenses (FCC, NOAA) and comply with regulations for operating spacecraft, including proximity operations coordination

## Required Qualifications

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Aerospace Engineering, Astrodynamics, Computer Science, or another engineering field

- 4+ years of professional spacecraft operations, mission planning, or flight dynamics experience

- Direct RPO experience on a flown or near-flight mission, on either the planning or execution side: relative orbit design, proximity operations trajectory planning, maneuver planning and reconstruction, or close-approach execution on console

- Experience taking a spacecraft through pre-launch operational readiness: AI&T support, procedure validation, mission rehearsals, day-in-the-life testing, and operational readiness reviews

- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and detailed requirements

- Capable of solving complex technical problems with little oversight

- Clear written communication, including procedures, flight rules, and training material

## Skills

### Required
- Aerospace Engineering
- Astrodynamics
- Computer Science
- Spacecraft Operations
- Mission Planning
- Flight Dynamics
- Relative Orbit Design
- Proximity Operations Trajectory Planning
- Maneuver Planning and Reconstruction
- Close-approach Execution

### Nice to have
- On-orbit Servicing
- Inspection
- Docking
- Refueling Missions
- Autonomous or Onboard Relative Navigation
- Vision-based or Optical Relative Nav
- Orbit Determination
- Maneuver Calibration
- Maneuver Reconstruction
- Conjunction Assessment
- Space Traffic Coordination
- STK/Astrogator
- ODTK
- MATLAB
- Simulink
- Python
- Linux Systems

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