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Program Chief Engineer – Spacecraft Satellite Systems (35863)
- Canada
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- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- Typically 10–15+ years of spacecraft, satellite or highly relevant aerospace engineering experience.
- Posting language
- English
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Program Chief Engineer – Spacecraft / Satellite Systems
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Employment: Permanent, Full-Time
Work Model: Hybrid with regular onsite presence
Relocation: Available for qualified candidates
The Opportunity
We are seeking an accomplished Program Chief Engineer to serve as a senior technical authority across complex spacecraft and satellite programs.
Reporting directly to senior Satellite Systems leadership, you will provide technical direction across the complete spacecraft lifecycle - architecture and design through integration, verification, launch and on-orbit operations.
This is a high-impact opportunity with significant technical ownership and visibility across multiple missions and advanced space technologies.
What You’ll Do
You do not necessarily need to currently hold the Chief Engineer title.
We are open to exceptional Deputy Chief Engineers, Principal/Staff Systems Engineers, Spacecraft Systems Architects, Technical Authorities and senior engineering leads who have worked closely with a Chief Engineer and are ready to step into broader technical ownership.
Experience combining the engineering rigor of traditional aerospace/space programs with the speed and ownership of New Space is particularly valuable.
Additional assets include constellation or multi-spacecraft programs, integration and launch campaigns, mission assurance, on-orbit operations, optical/RF communications, hosted payloads, on-orbit computing, Earth observation, ISR, and government or defence space programs.
Why This Opportunity?
Join an established, growing space technology organization operating at the forefront of real-time space connectivity, optical communications, on-orbit computing, hosted payloads and next-generation spacecraft infrastructure.
You’ll work in an environment that combines the pace and ownership of New Space with proven technology and active spacecraft programs - providing the opportunity to influence architecture, technical decisions and mission outcomes across multiple programs.
What’s Offered
If you have taken spacecraft from design → integration → launch → on-orbit operations and are ready to apply those lessons across the next generation of space programs, we’d like to hear from you.
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Location: Toronto, Ontario
Employment: Permanent, Full-Time
Work Model: Hybrid with regular onsite presence
Relocation: Available for qualified candidates
The Opportunity
We are seeking an accomplished Program Chief Engineer to serve as a senior technical authority across complex spacecraft and satellite programs.
Reporting directly to senior Satellite Systems leadership, you will provide technical direction across the complete spacecraft lifecycle - architecture and design through integration, verification, launch and on-orbit operations.
This is a high-impact opportunity with significant technical ownership and visibility across multiple missions and advanced space technologies.
What You’ll Do
- Serve as a senior technical authority across spacecraft programs, ensuring technical integrity and mission success.
- Lead across Systems, Flight & Ground Software, Electrical/Avionics, Mechanical, RF, GNC, Payload, AIT, Manufacturing and Operations.
- Drive spacecraft architecture, engineering execution and technical alignment across disciplines.
- Lead technical, design, anomaly and readiness reviews.
- Make evidence-based technical decisions balancing performance, reliability, cost, schedule, manufacturability and mission risk.
- Identify technical roadblocks and bring multidisciplinary teams together to resolve complex engineering challenges.
- Drive spacecraft through integration, qualification, launch and successful on-orbit operations.
- Represent Engineering in customer reviews, supplier discussions and executive briefings.
- Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders while promoting engineering rigor, standardization and lessons learned.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Typically 10–15+ years of spacecraft, satellite or highly relevant aerospace engineering experience.
- Senior technical leadership experience on at least one complete spacecraft development lifecycle, from design/development through integration, launch and operations.
- Multiple complete spacecraft lifecycles strongly preferred.
- Broad knowledge of spacecraft architecture, integration, verification, qualification, manufacturing, launch and mission operations.
- Ability to lead technically across multiple engineering disciplines rather than within a single subsystem.
- Strong spacecraft-level technical decision-making and engineering trade-off experience.
- Exceptional technical judgment, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to influence teams, challenge assumptions and drive decisions without relying on direct reporting authority.
You do not necessarily need to currently hold the Chief Engineer title.
We are open to exceptional Deputy Chief Engineers, Principal/Staff Systems Engineers, Spacecraft Systems Architects, Technical Authorities and senior engineering leads who have worked closely with a Chief Engineer and are ready to step into broader technical ownership.
Experience combining the engineering rigor of traditional aerospace/space programs with the speed and ownership of New Space is particularly valuable.
Additional assets include constellation or multi-spacecraft programs, integration and launch campaigns, mission assurance, on-orbit operations, optical/RF communications, hosted payloads, on-orbit computing, Earth observation, ISR, and government or defence space programs.
Why This Opportunity?
Join an established, growing space technology organization operating at the forefront of real-time space connectivity, optical communications, on-orbit computing, hosted payloads and next-generation spacecraft infrastructure.
You’ll work in an environment that combines the pace and ownership of New Space with proven technology and active spacecraft programs - providing the opportunity to influence architecture, technical decisions and mission outcomes across multiple programs.
What’s Offered
- Competitive base compensation
- Significant equity participation
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Unlimited vacation and supportive parental leave
- Company-wide holiday shutdown
- Relocation assistance for approved candidates
- Annual professional development funding
- Collaborative, highly technical environment with significant leadership visibility
If you have taken spacecraft from design → integration → launch → on-orbit operations and are ready to apply those lessons across the next generation of space programs, we’d like to hear from you.
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Responsibilities
Provide senior technical authority and direction across spacecraft programs, guiding architecture and multidisciplinary engineering from design through integration, verification, launch, and on-orbit operations. Lead technical reviews and decisions, resolve engineering challenges, represent Engineering with customers and executives, and mentor technical leaders.
Requirements
A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline and typically 10–15+ years of spacecraft, satellite, or relevant aerospace engineering experience are sought. Candidates should have senior technical leadership experience across at least one complete spacecraft lifecycle, broad spacecraft-level expertise, and the ability to lead across disciplines and influence decisions.
Skills
- Spacecraft Architecture
- Satellite Systems Engineering
- Technical Leadership
- Systems Engineering
- Integration and Verification
- Qualification
- Mission Assurance
- Technical Decision-Making
- Engineering Trade-Offs
- Multidisciplinary Team Leadership
- Anomaly Resolution
- Launch Campaigns
- Mission Operations
- Stakeholder Management
- Optical Communications
- RF Communications
Benefits
- Equity Participation
- Health Coverage
- Dental Coverage
- Vision Coverage
- Unlimited Vacation
- Parental Leave
- Company-Wide Holiday Shutdown
- Relocation Assistance
- Professional Development Funding
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Categories
- Engineering
- Management & Leadership
- Technology
- Manufacturing
Keywords
- Spacecraft
- Satellite Systems
- Spacecraft Architecture
- Systems Engineering
- Flight Software
- Ground Software
- Electrical Engineering
- Avionics
- Mechanical Engineering
- RF
- Guidance, Navigation, and Control
- Payloads
- Assembly, Integration, and Test
- Manufacturing
- Integration
- Verification
- Qualification
- Mission Assurance
- Launch Operations
- On-Orbit Operations
- Constellations
- Optical Communications
- Hosted Payloads
- On-Orbit Computing
- Earth Observation
- Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
- Government Space Programs
- Defence Space Programs
- Technical Reviews
- Risk Management