Capella is at the forefront of making vital information about our world accessible in a timely manner. We’re leveraging proven technologies and building new capabilities to create a constellation of SAR satellites that can collect information about any spot on the planet within an hour.

At Capella you’ll work in a collaborative team environment, alongside smart people with a history of space mission success. No prior space experience is needed—we’re looking for people excited about tackling seemingly impossible challenges, learning new skills and concepts, and helping each other achieve success.

Our mission and our products are meant to understand the whole world and help everyone in it, regardless of race, creed, or any other distinction. We believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we encourage all people to join our team and bring their unique perspective to help make us stronger.We value diversity at Capella and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About the Space Systems R&D Team

The Space Systems R&D Team is a multidisciplinary team within the Engineering department. We keep our eye out for the state-of-the-art technologies and bring them to the space vehicle to implement the product road map. Members of the team work across the organization to collaborate on requirements and implementation approaches to enhance existing systems and deploy capability enhancements to the satellite constellation.

About the Role/ Job Description

The Space Systems R&D Team is ramping up many exciting projects and are looking for an additional team member to help manage, plan and execute successfully. Ongoing efforts span from component level upgrades to total spacecraft design iterations. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated, collaborative, and supportive team to achieve novel on-orbit capabilities. This roll will directly contribute to large scale and high impact efforts within the company. You will help drive Capella’s ability to launch cutting edge technologies to space.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering/technical projects through full program lifecycle
• Strong documentation and communication skills with broad range of technical/non-technical and internal/external audiences
• Multidisciplinary and continuous learner: Ability to work across all engineering disciplines to collaborate with subject matter experts to define requirements, program milestones, create detailed project plans, drive design progression and implementation, resource allocation, etc for a variety of projects
• Ability to communicate program status, priority, risks, direction, etc within the satellite R&D team, to other stakeholder teams, and to company leadership
• Proactively identify critical-path actions, risks, opportunities to accelerate progress, and ways to future proof designs
• Track and maintain schedules & status across multiple development projects
• Prefers self-driven and fast paced work environment
• Preferred Qualifications
• Work experience in space
• Engineering/ technical education background
• Strong hardware or software background
• Vendor management experience
• Customer facing experience
• Experience with Jira/ agile management a plus

This position requires special access to conduct the work and requires the selected candidate to be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.