Senior Product Systems Engineer

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Loft Orbital builds a space infrastructure providing a fast & simple path to orbit. Using different flight proven buses, we design, integrate and operate spacecraft to fly physical or virtual customer payloads. We handle entire missions end to end, significantly reducing the lead-time and risk of a traditional space mission.

As a Senior Product Systems Engineer at Loft, you will own the architecture of our overall offering — the layer that sits above any single implementation team and brings coherence across ground, space, software, and hardware. You will define how Loft's platform is structured, how capabilities are allocated across segments, and how customers, third-party software, and Loft's own stack interact.

This is not a role about executing within a defined system. It is about shaping the system itself— making cross-cutting architecture decisions, defining interfaces and requirements at the offering level, and ensuring the ground processing chain and customer-facing tooling evolve in a way that is coherent, reusable, and product-relevant. You will work closely with engineering, product, and operations teams across sites, and your work will directly influence how Loft's offering is built, exposed, and scaled.

Help define the general architecture of Loft’s offering across ground and space

Support capability allocation across hardware, software, ground, flight, Loft-owned components, and external components

Ensure the ground processing chain is defined and evolved as a coherent part of the offering

Help shape ground software tools and interfaces as the main entry point for customers

Clarify the interaction model between OBSW, ground software, customer software, third-party software, and Loft’s stack

Help define, organize, and maintain requirements, interfaces, and architectural boundaries for offering-level topics

Coordinate architecture discussions and drive alignment between product intent, system architecture, and implementation realities across teams

Contribute to CONOPS, ICDs, architecture notes, trade studies, and related technical documentation

Help ensure solutions are reusable, scalable, and understandable rather than tailored only to one mission

Support architecture reviews and technical decision-making on cross-cutting topics

Strong systems engineering background in complex technical products spanning software and hardware

Experience working at the boundary between architecture definition, requirements structuring, and engineering implementation

Ability to structure complex systems into clear capabilities, interfaces, requirements, and responsibilities

Strong understanding of software-heavy systems, including distributed components, APIs, processing chains, and integration patterns

Ability to coordinate cross-functional technical work across several teams without relying on direct authority

Strong communication and documentation skills, including the ability to turn technical ambiguity into a clear framework for decisions and execution

Sound engineering judgment on the right level of rigor, abstraction, and specification for a growing organization

Experience with space systems, including ground segment tooling, onboard software, or customer-facing technical platforms

Experience defining integration models involving customer-owned or third-party software

Experience with architecture trade studies, capability allocation, and system-level interface management

Familiarity with CONOPS, ICDs, and other architecture or interface documentation methods

Experience with onboard data processing and cloud-based ground software

Experience in international and cross-site engineering collaboration

100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents

Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) Accounts offered with an employer contribution to the HSA

100% employer paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance

Flexible Time Off policy for vacation and sick leave, and 12 paid holidays

401(k) plan and equity options

Daily catered lunches and snacks in office

International exposure to our team in France

Fully paid parental leave; 14 weeks for birthing parent and 10 weeks for non-birthing parent

Carrot Fertility provides comprehensive, inclusive fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits with financial support

Off-sites and many social events and celebrations

Relocation assistance when applicable

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