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Own the end-to-end commercial and civil space business development process, including customer discovery, lead generation, opportunity qualification, pipeline management, pricing, market sizing, proposals, and deal closure. Partner with engineering, product, and mission architecture teams to deliver integrated satellite solutions across remote sensing, satcom, and orbital infrastructure markets. Ensure smooth transitions from pre-sales to execution while managing strategic customer relationships.

Leads mission formulation and architecture for international space opportunities. Develops mission concepts, performs mission-level analyses, owns top-level budgets, defines requirements, evaluates spacecraft and constellation configurations, and guides engineering teams through design trade studies. Collaborates with customers, scientists, and engineering disciplines to create practical, cost-effective satellite missions. Requires regular international travel and occasional travel to the Mountain View facility.

Lead mission readiness and performance across the Mission Foundry lifecycle: define V&V campaigns, streamline AI&T workflows, analyze on-orbit telemetry, improve autonomy and fault management, feed performance data into design iterations, and support internal tooling roadmaps to scale spacecraft production and operations.

Lead mission formulation and architecture for EO/IR and persistent infrared/MW missions. Perform mission-level analyses, define requirements and top-level budgets, design payloads and constellations, run trade studies using software/code, and coordinate with instrument, engineering, and science teams to deliver cost-effective space mission solutions.

Lead mission formulation and architecture: develop mission concepts from customer needs, perform mission-level analyses and top-level budgets, define requirements and design for spacecraft and RF/optical instruments, run engineering trade studies using code/tools, evaluate constellation configurations, and coordinate across disciplines.

Serve as technical lead for a designated space mission across concept, development, verification, and on-orbit operations. Translate customer objectives into requirements and ICDs, manage requirements traceability, subsystem budgets, risk, design changes, and reviews. Coordinate cross-functional teams (systems, hardware, software, data, ground, operations), interface with customers, and improve engineering processes and tools.

Own the end-to-end commercial capture process: lead customer discovery and lead generation, manage pipeline and deal qualification, collaborate with engineering and product to deliver integrated solutions, produce market sizing and customer insights, implement pricing frameworks, and ensure smooth transition from pre-sales to execution.

Lead a microwave instruments and data products team, design and build microwave remote sensing hardware, implement DSP, produce high-quality data products, act as technical customer contact and Mission Scientist, and shape microwave systems strategy.

Lead radiometric calibration and image processing for multispectral infrared instruments, commission FireSat satellites, and develop/execute SBEM calibration plans. Implement production-ready pipelines, perform R&D to improve calibration, write production-quality code, and collaborate cross-functionally to maintain operational remote sensing data products and services.

Manage the lifecycle of commercial and government contracts: review and draft standard agreements, identify and escalate risks, support proposals, track deliverables and CDRLs, maintain government profiles (SAM.gov, PIEE, WAWF), keep audit-ready records, and coordinate with Growth, Mission Engineering, and Supply Chain.