Senior Propulsion Systems Engineer

The Senior Propulsion Systems Engineer supports definition of the spacecraft product baseline. Responsibilities include creating standard requirements, system architecture, interface control documents, design and analysis goals, test plans, and operations concepts.

The role performs system-level trade-offs and coordinates inputs from multiple disciplines to evaluate proposed changes to the design baseline for individual missions. It owns technical budgets, including mass, propellant, and spacecraft-performance budgets for pointing and landing accuracy. The engineer also maintains internal interfaces between spacecraft subsystems.

The position contributes to requirements management and helps ensure that requirements are closed out at planned project milestones. It contributes to spacecraft-development risk assessments and supports the Project Manager in defining risk-mitigation plans.

The engineer supports the Propulsion, AIT, and Flight and Test Operations Groups, as well as subsystem leads, in defining test plans and specifications intended to verify the spacecraft design. The role also coordinates relevant subsystems and the Operations Team in defining a spacecraft operational concept.

Additional responsibility includes maintaining Model-Based Systems Engineering tools, particularly by developing propulsion-related models. The job is located in Tokyo, Japan.