Lead and execute system test readiness and execution for space systems, develop test plans, manage mission requirements, and deliver technical briefings to stakeholders.
As a Mission Architect, you’ll serve as both the technical and programmatic centerpiece for mission integration, fusing together a ground system, Space Vehicle hardware, and various other system interfaces to enable new capabilities in orbit.
Compensation
eligible for a $10,000 sign-on bonus for external candidates.
Responsibilities
Developing and evaluating spacecraft and mission architectures, concepts of operations (CONOPS), design reference missions, and operational scenarios.
Performing mission-level analyses and technical trade studies.
Assessing spacecraft day-in-the-life operations and developing mission sequences for launch, commissioning, on-orbit operations, and contingency scenarios.
Collaborating across spacecraft, payload, guidance, navigation and control (GNC), software, communications, ground, and mission-operations teams to develop an integrated spacecraft and mission solution.
Working with mission partners to model and mature mission elements, operational concepts, interfaces, and execution plans.
Joining a cross-disciplinary team that develops, integrates, tests, and delivers advanced spacecraft and mission systems for space security missions, focusing on interface management across the full lifecycle.
Own the definition, control, and management of external system interfaces across complex, multi segment architectures.
Develop, maintain, and baseline Interface Control Documents (ICDs), interface requirements, and associated models to ensure consistent, traceable implementation throughout the program lifecycle.
Engage with stakeholders to provide recurring status (e.g., weekly metrics, execution health, schedule adherence).
Produce high level and detailed technical artifacts such as interface diagrams, sequence/flow diagrams, data models, and API/interface contracts.
Working with mission partners to model and mature mission elements, operational concepts, interfaces, and execution plans.
Develop and evaluate spacecraft and mission architectures, concepts of operations (CONOPS), design reference missions, and operational scenarios.
Perform mission-level analyses and technical trade studies.
Assess spacecraft day-in-the-life operations and develop mission sequences for launch, commissioning, on-orbit operations, and contingency scenarios.
Collaborate across spacecraft, payload, guidance, navigation and control (GNC), software, communications, ground, and mission-operations teams to develop an integrated spacecraft and mission solution.
Work with mission partners to model and mature mission elements, operational concepts, interfaces, and execution plans.
Lead multidisciplinary teams spanning communications and integrated mission systems for next-generation autonomous aircraft, establishing technical/business strategy and overseeing execution from concept to fielding.
Responsibilities
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary organization spanning communications, and integrated mission systems.
Establish clear priorities, accountability, organizational objectives, and operating rhythms that enable teams to execute effectively.
Define technical strategy, capability roadmaps, and investment priorities aligned with aircraft program objectives, customer requirements, and broader business goals.
Oversee the development of integrated mission-system architectures encompassing sensors, payloads, avionics, weapons, secure communications,, autonomy, and aircraft survivability.
Direct modeling, simulation, wargaming, and system-of-systems analysis to evaluate mission effectiveness, operational performance, emerging threats, and aircraft design alternatives.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, mathematics, or another relevant technical discipline
Nice to have: Master’s degree or PhD in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or electrical engineering
Field Solutions Engineer based in Melbourne, Australia to support technical sales, customer engagements, demonstrations, and capture activities focused on advanced simulation, synthetic environments, image generation systems, and AI-enabled mission systems.
Responsibilities
Serve as a customer-facing technical expert for Shield AI simulation, synthetic environment, and AI-enabled mission system capabilities.
Support customer discovery, technical briefings, demonstrations, technical interchange meetings, RFIs, RFPs, proposals, white papers, and capture activities.
Translate customer mission needs, training objectives, test requirements, CONOPs, and integration considerations into credible solution concepts.
Support engagements involving advanced defense simulation, training, test, and evaluation environments across Australia, the Indo-Pacific, AUKUS, and allied markets.
Explain image generation systems, synthetic environments, PAIBs, threat models, LVC architectures, sensor simulation, scenario generation, and AI-enabled synthetic agents to technical, operational, commercial, and leadership audiences.
Requirements
Nice to have: defense simulation
Nice to have: training
Nice to have: test
Nice to have: experimentation customers in Australia
Lead a high‑performing Operations Analysis team to turn operational problems into quantitative insights that shape product strategy, engineering priorities, customer engagement, and mission outcomes.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
Lead and manage the Hivemind Solutions Operations Analysis team, including hiring, mentoring, prioritization, performance management, and technical direction.
Build an operations analysis capability that directly informs Hivemind product strategy, autonomy roadmap decisions, customer pursuits, and program execution.
Define and execute mission analysis, campaign analysis, force‑on‑force studies, CONOPS evaluations, and operational trade studies across multiple Hivemind product domains.
Partner with Product, Architecture, Systems Engineering, Business Development, Strategy, and Program teams to translate operational problems into analytical studies and actionable product recommendations.
Develop analysis plans that connect mission objectives, operational assumptions, threat environments, system performance, autonomy behaviors, and measurable mission outcomes.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations research, applied mathematics, computer science, physics, aerospace, systems engineering, data science, or a related technical field
Nice to have: Master’s degree or PhD in operations research, engineering, applied mathematics, data science, aerospace, systems engineering
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