Rendezvous Robotics
Vehicle Engineering Lead
$170K–$200K
Golden, Colorado +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- Golden, Colorado
Golden, Colorado, United States - Experience
- 7+ years; candidates with less experience will be considered when it was gained on high-tempo programs with multiple vehicles delivered.
- Education
- BS in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. Person status required. ITAR eligibility: U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
About the job
Leads vehicle-level engineering for a low Earth orbit in-space assembly mission, integrating subsystems and managing technical, schedule, cost, and launch-readiness baselines.
What you'll do
- Own vehicle requirements, budgets, verification, and integrated schedule and cost baseline through launch readiness.
- Integrate subsystem leads and make cross-subsystem tradeoff decisions; lead mission trade studies, design reviews, and failure investigations.
- Coordinate launch-provider and hosted-payload technical integration, including requirements and testing.
What they ask for
- BS in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of spacecraft engineering experience, including flight hardware or software that has flown and at least one vehicle taken from design through launch; candidates with less experience will be considered when gained on high-tempo programs with multiple vehicles delivered.
- Experience in at least two of structures, thermal, power, propulsion, GNC, avionics, and flight software, with working knowledge of the others.
- Experience writing and closing ICDs with launch providers or payload customers; direct spacecraft environmental test campaign experience including vibration, thermal vacuum, and EMI/EMC.
Nice to have
- Experience on first-of-kind flight demonstration programs, rideshare integration with SpaceX Transporter or comparable provider, on-orbit anomaly resolution, or early-stage startups.
Pay
$170,000 - $200,000 (base salary)
Tools
GNC, ICD, SpaceX Transporter, vibration, thermal vacuum, EMI/EMC
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