Systems Engineer
Company: Inflection Space Systems
Role summary
Systems Engineer is a role at Inflection Space Systems in Culver City, California, United States (on-site). Posted 2026-10-25. Experience level: 5-10.
- Job title
- Systems Engineer
- Company
- Inflection Space Systems
- Location
- Culver City, California, United States
- Work arrangement
- on-site
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Experience level
- 5-10
- Date posted
- 2026-10-25
You’ll have a direct line to the CTO in this hands-on role, taking full ownership of spacecraft design and integration at a cutting-edge aerospace firm. It’s a fantastic opportunity for an experienced engineer to make a tangible impact on mission success while working closely with a talented manufacturing team in Los Angeles.
Job description
About the role
Inflection is seeking an experienced systems engineer to own spacecraft design, technical budgets, interfaces, and more. This role reports directly to the CTO. This is a full-time, onsite role based out of Inflection’s HQ in Los Angeles, CA.
What you'll do
Own spacecraft systems engineering artifacts like requirements, technical budgets, and interfaces.
Work cross-functionally across spacecraft subsystems and the manufacturing team to ensure seamless integration, test, operations, and manufacturing scaling of Inflection's spacecraft.
Lead flatsat and hardware-in-the-loop development.
Work directly with Inflection's customers to plan and execute payload integration, test, and operations.
Contribute to detailed design across the spacecraft hardware and software stack as required.
Lead hands-on manufacturing, integration, test, and operations across protoype and flight hardware.
Design for reliable, repeatable production.
Qualifications
Demonstrated experience working with spacecraft, space systems, or other similar complex technical systems.
The ability to understand, communicate, and work across multiple engineering disciplines.
A strong level of personal initiative, and the ability to find and address problems before they become problems.
A passion for space.
The ability to get hands-on, and an appetite to learn new things.