Chief Engineer and Technical Program Manager
EOI Space (Earth Observant, Inc.) · Posted Nov 12, 2026
- Lafayette, Colorado, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Lead
- $200K–$250K per year
- 12+ years
Chief Engineer / Technical Program Manager to be the single technical and programmatic authority for the spacecraft, owning the schedule, risk register, and making design-closure and flight-readiness calls.
Compensation
The base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $250,000 plus equity, reflecting both the specialized skillset we’re looking for and our commitment to growing alongside the people who help us get there.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the single technical authority for the spacecraft: make the build-commit (CDR-equivalent) decision for each subsystem as its design matures, and make the flight-readiness call
- Own the top-level system requirements, the living system budgets (mass, power, propellant, pointing, link, data), the interface control documents, the program budget and staffing plan; keep them current and binding
- Make the subsystems come together as one system: run continuous cross-subsystem design review and requirements flowdown, and decide how cross-subsystem problems (jitter, power/thermal, fault management) are divided among the subsystem leads
- Own system verification and validation, scaled to consequence: subsystem leads verify their own subsystems, with formal closure only where failure consequence demands it; define the verification program with the SEIT lead
- Lead, review and develop the subsystem leads; be the senior technical escalation point on consequential decisions and set up mentor pairings where knowledge sits with one person