Director of Component Technology

Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, is leading the way in the New Space revolution! Our state-of-the-art systems are currently on missions from low Earth orbit to the Moon, near earth asteroids, and to Mars. We create high-reliability spacecraft with significantly greater performance, much smaller size and at a fraction of the cost of traditional space systems. We are involved in a wide range of projects for academic, commercial, and government applications. Join our innovative and dynamic company, as we build the small spacecraft of the future.

Position Purpose:  The Director of Component Technology will be responsible for providing leadership and supervision in a team environment, with frequent opportunities for customer engagement, new business development, concept design, roadmap planning and maintenance, and R&D program oversight.

Title: Director of Component Technology

Position Type: Full Time (Exempt)

Pay Range: $150,000 - $281,000

(Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)

Location: Boulder, CO

 

Benefits:

• 100% company paid health, dental and vision benefits for you and your dependents effective the first of the month following hire date
• Life insurance
• 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution
• Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation + 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, 7 paid holidays throughout the year) and parental leave.

Job Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for BCT’s component technology, with external and internal customers.
• Provides oversight to ensure technical development and performance of BCT components.
• Ability to effectively communicate with company Executive Leadership and manage multiple project teams of employees from multidisciplined engineering, manufacturing, and business support functions
• Develops standards for requirements, design documentation, including product specification, ICD, users guide, EIDP format, verification matrix.
• Develops standards for qualification and acceptance testing of each product.
• Oversees and guides reviews, including PDR/CDR/peer reviews
• Develop and communicate a clear product strategy and roadmap for components products that aligns with the company's vision and objectives. 

• Oversee performance, development and mentoring of the Components Engineering team

• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Required Qualifications/Education:

• 10+ years of experience on spacecraft component design.
• Engineering degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or similar field.
• Demonstrated ability to develop $1M+ spacecraft components.
• Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education.
• Must have a deep technical understanding of spacecraft components, including but not limited to:
• Reaction Wheels
• CMG’s
• Star Trackers
• Sun Sensor
• Software Defined Radios
• Antenna
• Batteries
• Solar Array Drive Assembly
• XACT cubesat attitude control unit
• Flexcore microsat attitude control unit
• Gimbal
• Torque Rods

 

Working Conditions:

This job operates in a professional office environment, but in a manufacturing company. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines. This job operates in a professional laboratory environment in a manufacturing company. This role uses standard laboratory and manufacturing equipment such as computers, electronics test equipment, and associated office equipment. BCT anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted.  However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require BCT to shorten or extend the application window.

 

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, bend, reach, and walk. The position requires some light physical effort. This would require the ability to lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities are required by this job which includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

 

Blue Canyon Technologies is a drug-free workplace and an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected factor. Blue Canyon Technologies is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact Melissa Po at HR@bluecanyontech.com.