Thruster Technical Owner
$62,000–$88,000 year
On-siteBordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Job Summary
Own the technical baseline, supplier development path, and qualification evidence for assigned Nyx Earth thruster assemblies, including fluidic, mechanical, thermal, and electrical interfaces. Build direct, fact-based technical relationships with the supplier while maintaining independent judgment, reviewing deliverables, analyses, and test results to ensure manufacturing and test readiness. Make technical maturity, schedule risk, and recovery options visible early to support AIT/MAIT preparation, integration, and flight-operations feedback loops. Manage hot-fire evidence paths and acceptance test logic across propulsion, GNC, avionics, and vehicle-design teams.
Required Qualifications
- Strong aerospace, mechanical, propulsion, or related engineering background
- Experience with spacecraft liquid propulsion hardware, ideally bipropellant thrusters, thrust chambers, thruster valves, hot-fire testing, qualification, manufacturing, or acceptance testing
- Proven ability to own technical supplier follow-up for a critical component or unit across requirements, interfaces, qualification, delivery, integration, and anomaly support
- Strong system-engineering judgment across propulsion, GNC, avionics, vehicle design, AIT/MAIT, quality, PA, safety, and operations interfaces
- Ability to communicate clearly with suppliers, engineers, program leadership, procurement, quality, test, and operations stakeholders
- Fluency in English
- Relocation assistance is provided for those willing to relocate including visa sponsorship where applicable
- All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check
Desired Qualifications
- French and/or German
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