# Space Systems Engineer

EraDrive’s goal is to revolutionize spaceflight through autonomy. EraDrive builds autonomy software and hardware that let spacecraft see, decide, and act with minimal human control. Our software is already flying in space, and we are growing it into a product family that covers rendezvous, on-orbit inspection, and space based sensing. You will be one of the early members of the EraDrive engineering team. The Role EraDrive is delivering multiple flight hardware payloads (“Era-Nodes”) which enable on-orbit autonomy for government and commercial customers. You will lead the end-to-end systems engineering and technical execution, from requirements definition through design, implementation, qualification, host spacecraft integration, and on-orbit operations. You will own the system architecture, interfaces, verification strategy, technical baseline, and risk posture across mechanical, thermal, electrical, software, autonomy, and operations domains. Internally, you will coordinate EraDrive's engineering team and drive cross-disciplinary decisions. Externally, you will be the primary technical interface to vendors, the host spacecraft bus team, and the program sponsor. This is a hands-on

- **Id**: 3037517
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/eradrive-space-systems-engineer>
- **Role**: Aerospace
- **Role family**: Aerospace
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Palo Alto, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-14T20:21:22Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T07:43:22Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 53
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4701
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space Services, Avionics & Flight Control

## Company

- **Id**: 3784512
- **Name**: EraDrive
- **Domain**: eradrive.space
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/eradrive2025san-franciscousaactive>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 108000
- **Max usd**: 251000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 590

## Technologies

- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-21T21:48:03Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 20
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.438
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 53
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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