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Senior Satellite Design Engineer for Fastwater Staffing

HIKINEX · Long Beach, CA

About the role

Your Mission on the Team:

You will be responsible for the overall design and development of satellites for the Meridian Space constellation, from concept through on-orbit operation. This includes top level design, risk and cost assessment, systems engineering, testing and operations. As part of a small team tackling ambitious challenges, you’ll take full ownership of satellite performance in orbit - driving each phase of development to ensure mission success and dependable service delivery.

Basic Qualifications:

- 5+ years professional design/development experience in satellite systems.

- Proven experience as a leader on at least one satellite program.

- Skill in using and creating software tools to model systems performance across a variety of disciplines (MATLAB, Python, Excel, etc.)

- Strong understanding of satellite technologies, design principles, and concepts of operations

- Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering or related field

- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

- 10+ years professional design/development experience in satellite systems

- Master's degree in Electrical or Systems Engineering, or related field

- Previous experience with spacecraft and/or space mission top level design

- Previous work on small LEO satellites

- Breadth of experience leading satellite systems development and testing

- Experience with creating satellite simulations and models

- Satellite operations experience

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Posted
Oct 3, 2026 (40 days ago)
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Nov 12, 2026
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