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About the Role
Support the development of Azora's space segment, including flight terminals and supporting avionics, utilizing optical communications technology. This role involves hands-on work across system architecture, requirements, and verification within a small hardware team.
Responsibilities
- Own space segment architecture for optical terminals, avionics, structures, thermal, power, and interfaces to host spacecraft or bus.
- Contribute to requirements development and flow-down from mission and link-budget levels to subsystem and component specifications.
- Manage the design review cadence (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR) and the verification and validation program, including environmental qualification (vibration, shock, TVAC, EMC, radiation).
- Assist with technical interfaces to launch providers, bus manufacturers, and hosted payload partners, including ICD development.
- Support risk management and parts/materials assurance activities (EEE parts, radiation lot testing) for the flight program.
- Oversee assembly, integration, and test (AIT) campaigns and launch site operations.
- Support on-orbit commissioning and anomaly resolution.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Aerospace, Electrical, Optical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with real flight hardware or flight-like hardware through research or industry.
- Proven ability to work independently and take technical ownership of a problem.
- Working knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals: requirements, budgets (mass, power, link, pointing), V&V planning.
- Some exposure to environmental qualification or AIT (vibration, shock, TVAC, EMC).
Skills
- Optical payloads
- Laser communication terminals
- Precision pointing systems in space
- Smallsat / NewSpace development models
- Hosted payload integration
- Radiation effects and mitigation for electronics and optics
- Startup or small-team experience scaling engineering processes
Location
- Tempe, AZ
- Bay Area, CA
Work Type
- Onsite/Hybrid
- Some travel expected
Experience Level
- Demonstrated contact with actual systems (built it, tested it, broke it, fixed it)
- Prior startup or small-team experience
Education Level
- BS/MS in Aerospace, Electrical, Optical Engineering, Physics, or related field
Salary/Compensations
- Final salary is based on geographic location, experience, skills, and qualifications.
Benefits
- Generous equity
- Competitive healthcare (including options for vision and dental)
- 401(k)
About the Company
- Azora is building high-bandwidth communications infrastructure for environments where fiber can’t reach.
- This work spans LEO spacecraft constellations, lunar exploration missions, GEO satcom, deployable optical ground for defense, and data centers both on- and off-world.
- To enable rapid global proliferation Azora is developing compact and modular optical terminals small enough to deploy from a backpack, and space terminals that support high speed optical links from LEO out to the Moon.
Equal Opportunity
- Azora is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicants must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (iii) protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or (iv) be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.