Program Chief Engineer
US$200,000 – US$275,000 / yr base salary
Posted 15 Oct 2026
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- Expected experience
- 8+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$200,000 – US$275,000 / yr |
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Field of studyAerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
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 seeking an exceptional Program Chief Engineer to act as technical lead for missions relying on highly maneuverable and agile small satellites, beginning with the GEO Space Domain Awareness mission set. This senior technical leadership role owns technical architecture and baseline across all facets of the mission. The Program Chief 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
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Serve as technical lead and authority for assigned programs, owning end-to-end satellite architecture and ensuring appropriate technical progress throughout the program lifecycle
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Drive resolution of complex cross-disciplinary technical issues, making authoritative architectural decisions that balance performance, cost, and schedule
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Lead teams through all technical milestones including, SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and PSR, and post-launch operations
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Interact directly with customers and suppliers as the primary technical point of contact to ensure mission success
Mission Definition & Technical Baseline
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Own and maintain system-level budgets ensuring the technical baseline demonstrably meets requirements and technical performance measures (mass, power, delta-V, pointing, data, link, MTF, etc.)
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Work alongside mission stakeholders to define and refine mission CONOPS, translating operational needs into rigorous system-level requirements
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Lead derivation and maintenance of system requirements, ensuring full traceability from mission-level objectives through system, subsystem, and component requirements
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Ensure requirements decomposition is executed correctly and that traceability is maintained throughout the entire technical baseline
Requirements Traceability & Compliance