Senior Spacecraft Command and Data Handling (C&DH) Engineer - Millennium Space Systems

About the Position

Bring your ideas to life at Boeing, where we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. Millennium Space Systems, a part of Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS), is a fast, agile small satellite company focused on national security space. Our missions have a direct impact on global security, such as missile warning and Earth observation.

As a Senior Spacecraft Command and Data Handling (C&DH) Engineer, you will serve as a primary technical authority for the electrical hardware and avionics architectures critical to Millennium’s space vehicles. You will drive the strategic design of vehicle architectures, ensuring they meet complex mission requirements while optimizing for performance, manufacturability, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Architect C&DH subsystem architectures that drive system-level design decisions and ensure alignment with mission objectives, constraints, and fault management requirements.
• Lead the selection and trade analysis of avionics architectures to balance mission requirements with performance, power, mass, and cost.
• Drive the definition of requirements, interface control documents, and verification activities.
• Direct high-fidelity analyses for data budgets, signal integrity, clock drift, jitter, and EMI/EMC compatibility to guarantee design margins and reliability.
• Own vendor selection and trade studies, producing make/buy recommendations that balance technical risk, schedule, cost, and long-term lifecycle support.
• Lead the identification and resolution of complex technical issues related to avionics and electrical hardware throughout the design, integration, and testing phases.
• Collaborate on Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) strategies, ensuring architectures are resilient and providing technical expertise for mission operations and system health assessment.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers to foster technical excellence and scale the group's engineering capabilities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer, Aerospace, or a related discipline and 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience.
  • 9+ years of experience with spacecraft communication protocols such as SpaceWire, Ethernet, RS-422/485, LVDS.
  • 7+ years of experience in the design, analysis, and integration of spacecraft electrical hardware or complex avionics systems.
  • This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. A final U.S. Security Clearance Post-Start is required.

• Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

  • Level 5: 14 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience.
  • Experience as a Responsible Engineering Authority (REA) or Lead Engineer on complex space programs.
  • Deep familiarity with industry standards and DoD/government cybersecurity implementation for space assets.
  • Experience in high-rate manufacturing environments.
  • Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in a relevant engineering discipline.
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $146,200 - $260,000 (based on experience and qualifications).
• Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement savings plans, and more.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects with a direct impact on global security.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.

About the Company

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

Millennium Space Systems also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Apply Now and join our team of innovators and dreamers, engineers and designers, cybersecurity experts and technologists. This is where you'll help build tomorrow today.