Director of Engineering, Accurate Landing
August 11
🏢 In-office - Los Angeles
Description
• As the head of Inversion’s Accurate Landing teams, you will spearhead the creation, design, and leadership of one of Inversion’s most innovative capabilities: the technology behind autonomously and accurately landing a spacecraft anywhere on Earth. • You will own the technical development of the software stack, sensor and electrical design, GNC systems, and parachute and recovery hardware from conceptual design to continuous testing and deployment onto production vehicles. • Report directly to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). • Lead technical and programmatic architecture and execution of the Accurate Landing systems on Inversion’s Arc vehicle. • Assemble an incredibly talent-dense team of engineers to design, build, test, and produce controllable parachute systems, computer vision systems, and complex GNC algorithms. • Integrate and coordinate the integration of your team’s systems into Inversion’s vehicle(s). • Implement your vision for what you deem the “art of the possible” in a company that’s constructing an autonomy-enabled space transportation layer.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Software, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant field with a minimum of 10+ years of engineering complex systems. • Industry leadership experience managing interdisciplinary teams and responsibility over program-level technical decision-making. • Proven experience rapidly deploying and iterating products while in highly regulated industries. • Successful track record of taking projects from design through deployment into production. • Strong ability to translate customer requirements into highly reliable engineering outcomes.
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