# Senior Principal Engineer - Space Technology Development

**Company**: Honda
**Location**: Raymond
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $120,400.00 - $150,500.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Ticker**: HMC
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9584

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## Description

## Job Purpose

This position will establish and lead engineering and technical development targeted for the U.S. space industry by building a high-performing engineering organization, transferring critical technologies and expertise from Japan, and establishing the facilities, capabilities, and processes needed to drive advanced development and long-term competitiveness.

## Key Accountabilities

- Serve as technical leader aligning engineering activities with program objectives, customer needs, quality expectations, and long-term business growth.

- Develop, implement, and oversee a Safety & Mission Assurance framework that meets space industry expectations and regulatory requirements and ensure product reliability, risk mitigation, and compliance

- Identify, establish, and scale U.S. development and testing capability both internally and externally to support model build, testing, and evaluation

- Establish and lead a high-performing U.S. engineering organization by hiring, developing, and mentoring technical talent across multiple disciplines to support long-term product and capability growth

- Define, standardize, and continuously improve engineering development processes including systems engineering, configuration management, design reviews, verification/validation, and readiness gate criteria to transform automotive development capabilities into space-qualified development processes

- Drive successful technology and know-how transfer from Japan to the U.S. ensuring engineering teams fully understand the design intent, processes, standards, and system-level technical integration

## Citizenship requirement

Applicants for this role must be a US citizen, to qualify.

## Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

- A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (e.g. Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Systems Engineering, or a closely related field)

- Minimum Experience:

- Around 10 years of relevant experience.

- Prior experience in aerospace or space systems development and working with NASA or equivalent space agencies preferred.

- Other job-specific skills:

- Prior experience leading systems engineering activities in space programs.

- Experience in space hardware and/or software development, space experiments / investigation design, or space mission execution.

- Familiarity with NASA or the US space industry development and program approval processes

## Travel requirements

This position may require up to 35% travel - combining domestic and international.

## Workstyle

This is an onsite job. One remote workday per week may be possible with prior departmental approval.

## Total Rewards

- Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)

- Regional Bonus (when applicable)

- Manager Lease Car Program (No Cost - Car, Maintenance, and Insurance included)

- Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)

- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown

- Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

- 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution

- Relocation assistance (if eligible)

## Career Growth

- Advancement Opportunities

- Career Mobility

- Education Reimbursement for Continued learning

- Training and Development Programs

## Additional Offerings

- Lifestyle Account

- Childcare Reimbursement Account

- Elder Care Support

- Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment

- Wellbeing Program

- Community Service and Engagement Programs

- Product Programs

## Skills

### Required
- Aerospace
- Mechanical
- Electrical
- Systems Engineering
- Space Systems Development
- NASA
- US Space Industry Development
- Program Approval Processes
- Space Hardware
- Software Development
- Space Experiments
- Investigation Design
- Space Mission Execution

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