Turion Space
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Staff Ground Software Engineer
Turion is developing the critical infrastructure of the space economy. We're doing this by building vertically integrated hardware and software: DROID, our line of space vehicles, and Starfire, our software suite covering simulation, modeling, planning, and operations. We're a group of people who fell in love with the future sci-fi promised us, and we're building it into reality. We build hard things. We build them well. And we're just getting started. As a Staff Ground Software Engineer, you will play a key role in defining, designing, and building the next generation of Mission Control systems that spacecraft operators rely on every day. These systems enable teams to command real satellites, process high‑volume downlinks from orbit, and make split‑second decisions that directly impact missions worth millions of dollars and hardware traveling at over 17,500 mph. In this role, you will work across the full software lifecycle: shaping overall architecture, setting technical direction, building core services, and mentoring engineers as we scale our capabilities. You will tackle some of the hardest challenges in modern distributed systems, including: - Scale: designing systems that handle massive telemetry streams, high throughput, and globally distributed operations. - Speed: optimizing end‑to‑end latency so operators can react to spacecraft events in real time. - Availability: ensuring mission‑critical services remain resilient, fault tolerant, and highly reliable under all conditions. - Observability: building the tools, metrics, and instrumentation that give operators and engineers deep insight into system behavior. - Security: protecting command paths, data flows, and operational workflows against evolving threats in a domain where safety and integrity are paramount. You will collaborate closely with mission operators, flight software engineers, and cross‑functional teams to ensure our ground systems are intuitive, robust, and ready for missions of in
Director of Guidance Navigation & Control
Role overview: We are seeking a Director of GNC to shape and lead the technical and organizational direction of our Guidance, Navigation, Control (GNC) team. In this role, you will own the architecture, roadmap, engineering standards, team development, and cross-functional execution required to deliver high-performance GNC systems across the product lifecycle. You will lead a team of GNC engineers and technical leads working on Turion’s upcoming spacecraft missions – including RPO, reconnaissance, surveillance, refueling and Space Domain Awareness – and provide support for our current on-orbit LEO operations. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Set the long-term technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for GNC capabilities, tools, processes, and team development. - Own system-level architecture decisions for guidance, navigation, control, simulation, validation, and autonomy-related functions. - Lead the GNC team at Turion Space by owning team structure, hiring plans, and team development. - Serve as the senior technical authority for GNC, providing direction on trade studies, requirements, interfaces, performance targets, and risk management. - Establish engineering standards, review practices, modeling and simulation expectations, verification methods, and certification or compliance approaches where applicable. - Mentor and develop senior engineers and technical leads, while raising the overall technical bar of the organization. - Drive make-versus-buy decisions, provide technical oversight of suppliers, and manage external partnerships related to GNC/RPO technologies. - Represent GNC technical direction and program status in executive reviews, customer discussions, design reviews, and major decision forums. QUALIFICATIONS - Minimum 10 years of experience in roles related to guidance, navigation, and control engineering, with progressive growth from hands-on technical execution to senior technical leadership, architecture ownership, and strategic decision
PLM Change Analyst
At Turion Space, we’re building spacecraft to secure Earth and expand humanity’s reach beyond it. As a PLM Change Analyst, you will be the point of contact for all things PLM related including item masters, engineering change orders (ECO), drawing releases, bill of materials (BOMs), procedures and work instructions. You will be a critical part of our engineering operations team and ensure that our spacecraft have secure, complete and accurate documentation. This is a full-time, exempt position based on-site at our Irvine, California headquarters. Key Responsibilities - Ensure all documentation and change records are accurate, complete and compliant with company configuration management standards - Execute and process ECOs/ECRs in PLM system following established procedures - Route, track, and complete engineering change orders and change requests while ensuring required reviews and approvals have been captured - Perform PLM system administration activities including new user onboarding, permissions, role management and providing training on PLM workflows and best practices. - Support PLM implementation and configuration activities such as data migration, rollout of new features, as well as attributes, templates, and change process updates. - Monitor system performance, identify issues, and coordinate resolutions with PLM tech support. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to facilitate various document approval workflows, resolve any issues, and ensure consistency in all documentation to maintain configuration control - Support day to day engineering administrative needs related to PLM and change control such as item creation, BOM updates, drawing and document revisions, change impact assessments etc. - Draft procedures, work instructions, guidelines, flowcharts etc. and train team members on PLM processes and change management best practices - Participate in CCB meetings and ensure timely closure of assigned changes - Support PLM int
Senior Material Handler
Turion is developing the critical infrastructure of the space economy. We're doing this by building vertically integrated hardware and software: DROID, our line of space vehicles, and Starfire, our software suite covering simulation, modeling, planning, and operations. We're a group of people who fell in love with the future sci-fi promised us, and we're building it into reality. We build hard things. We build them well. And we're just getting started. We are currently seeking a Senior Material Handler. The Senior Material Handler is a critical hands-on role within our Supply Chain department. You will own day-to-day materials operations across shipping/receiving, stockroom, and inventory management, ensuring parts and components are accurately received, stored, kitted, and shipped to support satellite production, while also mentoring junior team members and driving process improvements across the materials function. You will maintain operational efficiency and accuracy across the full materials workflow. This role reports directly to the Manager, Inventory Control and works in close partnership with Production, Engineering, and Program Management. Key Responsibilities Material Handling & Inventory Control - Receive, inspect, and verify incoming materials against purchase orders, specifications, and quality requirements; document and resolve discrepancies. - Safely transport materials between warehouse, cleanroom, and production areas using equipment such as forklifts, pallet jacks, and walker stackers. - Execute inventory transactions (receipts, transfers, adjustments, returns) in ERP systems; monitor inventory levels and identify shortages, excess, or discrepancies. - Identify and correctly handle electronic components, connectors, and flight hardware alongside mechanical/structural materials, in compliance with Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) and Moisture Sensitive Device (MSD) procedures. Shipping & Receiving - Prepare outbound shipments (picking, pa
Head of Software Tools
Turion is developing the critical infrastructure of the space economy. We're doing this by building vertically integrated hardware and software: DROID, our line of space vehicles, and Starfire, our software suite covering simulation, modeling, planning, and operations. We're a group of people who fell in love with the future sci-fi promised us, and we're building it into reality. We build hard things. We build them well. And we're just getting started. Turion is scaling toward production of tens of vehicles per month while running several vehicle development efforts in parallel, and the engineering practices that got us here will not get us there on manual effort alone. The Head of Vehicle Development, Software owns the software layer of how we develop vehicles: the tools, automation, AI, and data infrastructure that let a lean team design, analyze, build, and verify spacecraft at production rate. You will turn one-off engineering analyses into push-button pipelines, wire our design and systems processes into a connected digital thread, and give every responsible engineer an unfair advantage. This is a player-coach role. You will set the vision and recruit a small, elite team, and you will ship code yourself from day one. This is a full-time, exempt position based on-site at our Irvine, California headquarters. RESPONSIBILITIES - Own the roadmap. Define and drive the strategy for vehicle development software across analysis automation, design automation, systems and requirements tooling, applied AI, engineering data infrastructure, and compute. - Build the team. Recruit, lead, and grow the software engineers on this team, set the technical bar, and stay hands-on in architecture and code. - Automate analysis. Drive the conversion of manual thermal, structural, vibration, shock, and environments analyses into parameterized, repeatable pipelines with automated model generation, batch solves, margin tracking, and generated reports. - Automate design and rele
Principal Software Engineer, Vehicle Analysis (Structures & Dynamics)
Turion is developing the critical infrastructure of the space economy. We're doing this by building vertically integrated hardware and software: DROID, our line of space vehicles, and Starfire, our software suite covering simulation, modeling, planning, and operations. We're a group of people who fell in love with the future sci-fi promised us, and we're building it into reality. We build hard things. We build them well. And we're just getting started. Structural and dynamic analysis is where spacecraft schedules quietly go to die: rebuild the mesh, regenerate the load cases, wait on the solve, transcribe margins into a stress report, then do it again because a bracket moved. We want that loop automated end to end. You will embed with our structures and dynamics analysts and build the pipelines behind quasi-static, modal, random vibration, shock, and coupled loads analysis, plus the tooling that correlates models to vibration and modal survey test data. This is a full-time, exempt position based at our Irvine, California headquarters. Responsibilities - Generate the FEM. Build parametric finite element model generation from CAD, including automated defeaturing, meshing, connections, and mass representation, so a design revision produces an updated model without hand rebuild. - Automate load cases. Generate quasi-static, sine, random vibration, shock, acoustic, and coupled loads case matrices from launch vehicle environments and mission definitions. - Run at scale. Orchestrate batch solves across NASTRAN, Abaqus, Ansys, CalculiX, or in-house solvers on cloud and HPC compute, with scheduling, caching, and cost tracking. - Automate the margins. Build post-processing that computes margins of safety against allowables, rolls up worst case by part and load case, and generates stress and dynamics reports ready for review. - Screen for life. Automate fatigue, fracture, and fastener and joint screening across the vehicle so nothing depends on a single analyst r
Principal Astronautical Engineer
At Turion Space, our astronautical engineering work is what makes autonomous operations in orbit possible. This team owns the flight dynamics, navigation, guidance, and mission analysis that let our spacecraft maneuver, rendezvous, and operate safely in a contested and increasingly crowded domain. As a Principal Astronautical Engineer, you'll lead the design, development, and implementation of astronautical engineering solutions across mission operations, flight dynamics, flight software, and mission/systems engineering. This is a deeply technical leadership role at the core of how Turion flies. You'll set the standard for rigor across the astronautics stack, from the algorithms that determine and control spacecraft state to the software and test infrastructure that proves it works before it ever reaches orbit. Your work will directly shape the reliability of every mission we fly and the capabilities we can offer our customers. This position requires travel to our Irvine, California headquarters and other locations as needed. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES - Lead the design, development, and implementation of astronautical engineering solutions. - Build, develop, and maintain software and systems for space applications. - Ensure the quality and rigor of engineering processes and deliverables. - Drive for 100% test coverage against canonical sources of truth. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to achieve mission objectives. - Contribute to documentation, code reviews, and process improvements. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - M.S. in Astronautical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering with an astronautics emphasis, or a related technical field - 8 to 20 years of professional experience in astronautical engineering - Demonstrated ability to develop astronautics applications supporting mission operations, flight dynamics, flight software, and mission/systems engineering - Experience designing and implementing software for space application
Spacecraft Integration Engineer
Turion Space is building the autonomous infrastructure required to operate, protect, and sustain the in-space economy. From on-orbit inspection and debris removal to autonomous spacecraft operations powered by Starfire OS, Turion’s growth depends on disciplined capital planning, clear financial insight, and strong executive decision support. Turion Space is seeking a Mid-Level Spacecraft Integration Engineer to join our growing team in Irvine, CA. The Spacecraft Integration Engineer will be responsible for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes for complex spacecraft systems. This role is critical to ensuring our spacecraft are built to the highest standards of quality, reliability, and safety from mechanical integration through electrical assembly. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to resolve manufacturing anomalies, develop and refine processes, and drive efficiency across the production floor. Key Responsibilities - Process Design: Support the development and implementation of manufacturing processes and procedures in line with industry best practices. Assist in specifying manufacturing equipment and tooling to improve production efficiency and product quality. - Troubleshooting: Provide technical support to resolve production issues, including equipment malfunctions, process deviations, and quality problems. - Documentation: Prepare and maintain detailed documentation of manufacturing processes, procedures, and changes. Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. - Collaboration: Work closely with design engineers, production teams, and suppliers to ensure seamless integration of new products and processes. Facilitate communication and coordination between teams. - Project Management: Contribute to manufacturing projects, including the introduction of new processes, technologies, and production lines. Support project timelines, resource tracking, and performance reporting unde
Account Executive, ISR Systems
At Turion Space, we’re on a mission to secure Earth and expand humanity’s reach beyond it. We’re developing spacecraft for national security, space logistics, and remote sensing. As we prepare for upcoming launches and expand our portfolio of government and commercial programs, we’re looking for an Account Executive focused on Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) to join our Business Development (BD) team and drive the growth of our spacecraft bus and payload sales. This is a full-time, exempt position based on-site at our Irvine, California headquarters. As an Account Executive at Turion, you will manage full-cycle capture across large-scale government programs. Our BD team doesn't just "find" leads; we manage the entire journey from opportunity creation to final contract close. You will be the tip of the spear for our mission sales, working hand-in-hand with our engineering teams to ensure our technical solutions align perfectly with customer needs. You should be a "team seller" who thrives on the persistence required to win space vehicles opportunities within complex government frameworks. Key Responsibilities · Develop and mature a mission area strategy for 1, 3 , 5, and 10 year growth plans including identifying potential customers, products, services, and partners · Build and maintain an opportunity pipeline for a mission area including projected opportunities over the next 1, 3, 5, and 10 years. · Shape opportunities with prospective customers to optimize alignment with Turion’s capabilities. · Develop and implement comprehensive capture strategies, including analysis of customer needs, competitive landscape, and pricing strategies. · Prepare review packages to support decisions to bid and approval to submit. · Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers, stakeholders, and partners. · Ensure touchpoints within the company are integrated and synchronized to deliver a cons
Senior Mission Operations Engineer
The Senior Mission Operations Engineer will be responsible for leading the development, integration, and execution of mission operations across the spacecraft lifecycle. This role serves as a primary operational integrator between engineering, ground software, and flight teams, ensuring that operational constraints, procedures, risk mitigations, and readiness activities are thoroughly defined, validated, and aligned with mission objectives. It involves driving cross‑team coordination, supporting real‑time operations, shaping operational architecture, and elevating operator capability through mentorship and continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities - Provide senior‑level technical and operational expertise across all mission operations activities, serving as a subject‑matter expert during testing, rehearsals, anomalies, and on‑call operations. - Plan and coordinate cross‑team project and mission execution activities, ensuring alignment between operations, systems engineering, GNC, software, and ground teams. - Define, evaluate, document, and validate operational constraints across mission phases, drive updates when requirements, risks, or design changes dictate. - Lead development, improvement, and validation of operational procedures, flight rules, and operator workflows to ensure accurate, consistent, and reliable execution. - Conduct and contribute to mission risk assessments, supporting identification of hazards, proposing mitigations, and ensuring risks influence design and operational decisions. - Support tactical operational execution with minimal oversight, including command sequencing, real‑time decision‑making, and interface with cross‑disciplinary technical teams. - Maintain mission readiness by identifying prep risks early, coordinating closures, validating tools and processes, and ensuring teams are prepared for rehearsals and flight. - Drive closure of operational gaps such as constraint updates, procedure improvements, workflow issu
Product Operations Analyst
At Turion Space, product operations is where strategy becomes delivered capability. The product organization sits at the center of how we turn an ambitious roadmap into fielded systems, connecting engineering, business development, and customers around a clear and disciplined set of priorities. As a Product Operations Analyst, you'll support the Chief Product Officer in developing product strategy, governance, and execution of the product roadmap. This role keeps the product organization aligned and moving. You'll build the planning processes, performance analysis, and go-to-market groundwork that allow Turion to bring new products to market with both speed and rigor. Your work will give the Chief Product Officer and cross-functional leaders the visibility and structure they need to make sound decisions as we scale our portfolio of in-space servicing, space domain awareness, and orbital infrastructure products. This position is onsite at our Irvine, California headquarters. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES - Support the Chief Product Officer in the development of the product strategy, governance, and execution of the product roadmap. - Organize product teams. - Integrate product plans with Turion enterprise management systems. - Drive product planning processes, bringing stakeholders together to align on product vision, strategy, and roadmap. - Lead the development and execution of go-to-market strategies for new products, including market research, competitive analysis, and customer engagement. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, sales, marketing, and customer support, to ensure successful product launches and ongoing product success. - Analyze product performance and customer feedback to inform continuous improvement and future product development efforts. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - B.S. in Engineering or a related technical field. - 3 to 15 years of professional experience in product development, analysis, or a relevant fi
Staff Spacecraft Systems Engineer
We are seeking an exceptional Staff Spacecraft Systems Engineer to serve as a Chief Program Engineer on an upcoming new product line program focused on GEO Space Domain Awareness missions relying on highly maneuverable and agile small satellites. This senior technical leadership role goes beyond individual spacecraft design to encompass full ownership of the satellite architecture and technical baseline for assigned programs. The Staff Spacecraft Systems Engineer ensures that all aspects of the mission, from requirements decomposition and traceability to mission capability verification, are properly defined, progressed, and documented to meet both customer and mission success criteria. Key Responsibilities: Program Chief Engineering Leadership - Serve as Chief Program Engineer for assigned programs, owning end-to-end satellite architecture and ensuring appropriate technical progress throughout the program lifecycle - Drive resolution of complex cross-disciplinary technical issues, making authoritative architectural decisions that balance performance, cost, and schedule - Lead teams through all technical milestones including, SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and PSR, and post-launch operations - Interact directly with customers and suppliers as the primary technical point of contact to ensure mission success Mission Definition & Technical Baseline - Own and maintain system-level budgets, mass, power, delta-V, pointing, data, and link. ensuring the technical baseline demonstrably meets requirements and intended capability performance - Work alongside mission stakeholders to define and refine mission CONOPS, translating operational needs into rigorous system-level requirements - Lead derivation and maintenance of system requirements, ensuring full traceability from mission-level objectives through system, subsystem, and component requirements - Ensure requirements decomposition is executed correctly and that traceability is maintained throughout the entire techni
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Turion Space is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our growing team in Irvine, CA. You'll be joining our Quality organization at a foundational moment, helping define how we do quality, not just operating within a system that's already set in stone. Working closely with our Senior Manager of Quality & Mission Assurance, you'll help build out inspection processes, calibration systems, and QMS procedures as we scale, while also owning the day-to-day quality operations that keep us compliant and running today. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for someone who thrives on solving problems at the source, not just documenting them. You'll have real influence over how our processes, tooling, and documentation take shape as the team grows. It's a great fit for an engineer who can move fluidly between the shop floor and the conference room, someone who can read a CMM report and interpret GD&T callouts in the morning, then negotiate a disposition path with a customer or supplier in the afternoon. Key Responsibilities Building & Maturing the Quality Function - Help build and continuously improve QMS procedures, inspection processes, and quality infrastructure as our processes and product lines mature - Monitor quality systems and perform trend analysis to proactively identify systemic issues and design lasting process improvements NCR / RCCA - Work open Nonconformance Reports (NCRs) end-to-end: containment, root cause investigation, disposition, and closure - Research applicable industry specs and technical data to support disposition decisions, and provide resolution guidance to engineering, operations, and program stakeholders Inspection & Calibration - Develop and maintain inspection plans, including reviewing GD&T and CMM inspection reports as part of NCR investigations - Establish and monitor the calibration system to ensure measurement equipment remains compliant and audit-ready Contracts & Suppliers - Perform contract review t
Senior Quality Inspector
Turion Space is seeking a Senior Quality Inspector to join our growing team in Irvine, CA. The Senior Quality Inspector will own inspection from the dock to the finished part. You'll be the first line of defense between a defect and a flight-critical assembly, catching issues on incoming hardware, in-process builds, and final acceptance, and building the data packages that prove our hardware is what we say it is. This is a hands-on role for someone who already knows their way around a drawing and a set of calipers, and who's ready to take on more ownership with support from Quality Engineering. This is a 1st shift position with a standard schedule of 8:00AM-5:00PM, Monday through Friday. Please note that this position may include occasional overtime as needed to meet operational goals. Key Responsibilities Receiving Inspection - Inspect incoming product against purchase order requirements, drawings, and specifications - Measure parts, review supporting documentation, and interpret First Article Inspection (FAI) reports - Log defects and initiate Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), working with the Quality Engineer to drive them to disposition - Process conforming product through our system and release it to stock In-Process Inspection - Inspect product against work order requirements at each stage of the build - Perform FAIs when required - Accept or reject hardware and route it to the appropriate area based on disposition Final Inspection - Verify completed assemblies against drawing requirements - Confirm documentation is complete, i.e., work orders, certifications, test reports, and FAIs (including determining whether an FAI is required and executing it if not already on file) - Build and finalize the End Item Data Package Cross-Functional Collaboration - Fill out FAI reports and route them to QE for approval - Work daily with Manufacturing, Quality Engineering, and Engineering to resolve inspection findings and keep hardware moving -
Senior IT Engineer
At Turion, our IT Ops team builds the corporate infrastructure that enables employees to design, build, and operate spacecraft. As a Senior IT Engineer, you will be a technical leader and mentor on the IT Ops team, responsible for tackling the most challenging support issues while building the automated, scalable systems that prevent them from recurring. You will be a key player in maturing our IT operations, blending deep systems administration expertise with a modern, automation-first mindset. You will not only solve complex problems but also design and implement the "paved road" solutions that empower our users and streamline our workflows. What You'll Do - Serve as a primary escalation point for complex and high-severity technical issues, providing expert-level support for systems, networks, and applications. - Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for recurring problems, moving beyond tactical fixes to develop and implement long-term, automated solutions. - Design, build, and maintain automation for critical IT workflows, including employee onboarding/offboarding, software provisioning, system patching, and endpoint configuration using tools like PowerShell, Python, and Ansible. - Act as a technical lead on IT projects, such as storage and backup modernization, virtualization platform buildout, and the implementation of new self-service tools. - Mentor and develop junior IT staff, sharing knowledge, establishing best practices for troubleshooting, and championing a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing (KCS). - Administer and enhance core IT infrastructure, including our Windows and Linux environments, virtualization platforms, and cloud services, with a focus on reliability and scalability. - Collaborate with Platform Engineering and InfoSec to consume internal services and ensure IT systems are deployed securely and in alignment with company standards. You will be an "expert consumer" of the internal platform, providing valuable feed
Software C++ Engineer
OVERVIEW At Turion Space, we live at the intersection of the tech, aerospace, and defense industries. Our company thrives on solving hard problems and delivering software that our customers can rely upon. Our clients range from commercial companies licensing our software to large defense contractors that partner with us to develop and maintain systems. As a Software C++ Engineer, you’ll design, develop, and maintain software systems that our customers depend on. You’ll work across a modern C++ codebase, contribute to CI/CD automation, and collaborate with a team that holds itself to a high standard of craft and reliability. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Design, develop, document, test, and debug C++/Python software and systems that implement system requirements. - Document developer and user feedback and develop project issues. - Participate in regular code reviews. - In coordination with project leads, support and maintain CI/CD automation. - Own developer-facing automation, including but not limited to: - Improving build reliability. - Reducing manual release steps. - Creating repeatable workflows and scripts that help teams ship safely and consistently. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field. - 3 to 10 years of professional experience; developers with fewer than 3 years may apply if they can demonstrate significant personal projects. - Proficiency in C++, Python, CMake, MATLAB, and Fortran. - A functional understanding of C++17/20. - A functional understanding of C++ build systems, specifically modern CMake. - A functional understanding of package managers (e.g., Conan). - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD automation, including build/test pipelines, packaging, artifact versioning, and publishing to internal/external package registries. - Familiarity with platform-oriented development practices, including but not limited to: - Expanding and working with shared tooling. - C
Senior UI/UX Designer
Turion is developing the critical infrastructure of the space economy. We're doing this by building vertically integrated hardware and software: DROID, our line of space vehicles, and Starfire, our software suite covering simulation, modeling, planning, and operations. We're a group of people who fell in love with the future sci-fi promised us, and we're building it into reality. We build hard things. We build them well. And we're just getting started. We are looking for a Senior UI/UX Designer to help shape the user experience and visual direction of our Mission Control software suite. This role will be embedded with the Mission Control Software team and will be responsible for designing intuitive, scalable, and operationally effective interfaces for complex aerospace workflows. In this role, you will work closely with mission operators, customers, product stakeholders, and frontend engineers to deeply understand user needs, translate operational workflows into clear product experiences, and ensure our applications are designed with usability, consistency, and long-term scalability in mind. This is a senior design role that goes beyond visual execution. You will be expected to lead discovery efforts, gather and synthesize user feedback, define design priorities, contribute to product planning, establish strong UX practices, and mentor teammates through thoughtful design critique and collaboration. You should be comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces, asking the right questions, and turning complex technical systems into approachable, high-confidence user experiences. You will own the design process from research and concept development through high-fidelity Figma designs, engineering handoff, and post-release feedback loops. This is a full-time, exempt position based on-site at our Irvine, California headquarters. RESPONSIBILITIES - Drive UI/UX design for a suite of Mission Control applications used by mission operators, customers, and internal
Director of Mission Engineering
At Turion Space, understanding the mission space is what turns advanced technology into operational capability. As the Director of Mission Engineering, you'll lead the modeling and simulation efforts that frame how our systems perform against real mission needs, building mission-specific Design Reference Missions (DRMs), running the system trades that shape our architectures, and demonstrating how Turion's solutions deliver in the contexts that matter to our customers. This is a highly cross-functional leadership role. You'll work hand-in-hand with engineering functional teams and business development to translate mission needs into rigorous analysis, inform both material and non-material solution architectures, and ensure our technical direction is grounded in a clear-eyed understanding of the mission. Your work will directly shape what Turion builds and how we prove its value. This position is onsite at our Irvine, California headquarters. Job Responsibilities - Lead the mission engineering function at Turion Space, building a high-performing team and establishing the processes and tools needed to deliver rigorous mission analysis. - Support engagements with customers and stakeholders to understand, analyze, and translate mission needs into actionable engineering requirements. - Lead modeling and simulation efforts to characterize and understand the mission space. - Lead efforts to define Turion's commercial space offerings. - Implement mission-specific Design Reference Missions (DRMs) within simulation environments to frame and evaluate system performance. - Support material and non-material solution architecting in response to mission needs and capability gaps. - Lead system trade studies to inform architecture, design, and investment decisions. - Demonstrate and quantify Turion's system performance in the context of the DRMs. - Partner closely with engineering functional teams to align technical solutions with mission objectives. - Collabo
Staff Mission Systems Engineer, MBSE
As a Senior Mission Systems Model Based Systems Engineer (MBSE) you will be responsible for driving development and integration of critical space missions across both the space and ground segments leveraging MBSE tools, processes, and design styles. This role involves working on all phases of a satellite’s product lifecycle, from proposal and concept through initial and final design to testing and final operations. The Senior Mission Systems MBSE will work to ensure that all the realized system meets the desired function, performance, and reliability of the mission at hand. This role is on site at our Irvine, CA HQ. Key Responsibilities - Develop and maintain SysML models for space systems encompassing the full mission architecture, including spacecraft, payload, launch vehicle interfaces, ground systems, and mission operations - Construct structured, hierarchical system models capturing mission objectives, system functions, behavioral flows, interface definitions, and physical architectures. - Maintain model traceability from mission-level ConOps through system requirements, design decisions, and verification methods. - Evolve models iteratively across all phases of the program lifecycle from concept through operations - Define and model ground segment architecture including mission operations centers, ground station networks, flight dynamics systems, and data distribution infrastructure. - Capture and manage interface control data (ICDs) between the space and ground segments within the system model. - Evaluate and track risks, including fault trees, failure modes, and potential mitigation. - Interface with government customers, prime contractors, and subcontractors to align on MBSE approaches and data exchange formats - Identify and document internal and external dependencies, such as vendor-provided systems or internal blockers from other teams across the program. - Directly engage with subcontractors on deliverables. - Assist in developing
Principal Software Engineer, Vehicle Analysis (Thermal)
Turion is developing the critical infrastructure of the space economy. We're doing this by building vertically integrated hardware and software: DROID, our line of space vehicles, and Starfire, our software suite covering simulation, modeling, planning, and operations. We're a group of people who fell in love with the future sci-fi promised us, and we're building it into reality. We build hard things. We build them well. And we're just getting started. A thermal analyst at a production rate spacecraft company should never hand build a model, babysit a solve, or paste results into a report. This role exists to make sure they do not have to. As a Principal Software Engineer of Vehicle Analysis you will embed with our thermal team and turn their analysis into automated pipelines: models generated from CAD, case matrices generated from mission definitions, solves run in parallel on cloud compute, and margins, trends, and reports produced automatically. You will also close the loop back to reality by automating thermal vacuum test correlation and on-orbit telemetry comparison. Responsibilities - Generate models from source. Build parametric thermal model generation driven by CAD geometry and a materials and interface database, so a design change propagates into an updated thermal model without hand rework. - Automate the case matrix. Generate and manage hot and cold case matrices across orbits, attitudes, seasons, beta angles, and operating modes, with design of experiments and sampling for trade studies. - Run at scale. Orchestrate large batch solve campaigns on cloud and HPC compute with job scheduling, retries, caching, and cost tracking. - Script the tools. Automate commercial thermal tools through their APIs, including Thermal Desktop and SINDA via OpenTD, Ansys, and radiation and orbital environment tools such as STK, and extend them with in-house solvers where that is faster. - Automate the answer. Build post-processing that produces margin tables aga
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