Mission Assurance Engineer

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Here at The Exploration Company, we are developing, producing, and operating Nyx, a modular and reusable space orbital vehicle that can eventually be refuelled in orbit and that can carry cargo - and potentially humans in the longer run.

Mission Assurance Engineer

We are looking for a Mission Assurance Engineer to own the end-to-end strategy that ensures our spacecraft is safe, reliable, and mission ready. In this role you will be embedded with the design, test, and operations teams, driving the vehicle safety architecture as well as relentlessly driving risk down and availability up.

Responsibilities
- Ownership of the vehicle safety architecture making sure it meets all safety & reliability requirements (both internal and external from ISS program, ESA and CNES on entry safety).
- Responsible for assessing pre-flight risks and potential mitigations with vehicle design, analysis, and operations teams.
- Perform and review FMECA, FTA, PRA, and RAM analyses to identify risks and failure modes.
- Define and validate the spacecraft fault management and FDIR architecture.




- Work with avionics, software, and operations teams to implement fault management strategies and ensure safe behavior under off-nominal conditions.
- Support on-console operations as the Mission Assurance representative and drive in-flight anomaly resolution. Ensure lessons learned feed directly back into design and FDIR improvements.
- Champion a culture of mission assurance. Instill first-principles thinking, disciplined verification, and data-driven decision-making.
- Report to program leadership on RAMS status, residual risk, and flight readiness.
- Drive corrective actions from anomalies, test failures, and operational events back into design improvements.

What We Would Love To See From You
- Master’s degree in an engineering or science discipline.
- Proficiency with reliability tools (e.g., FMECA, FTA, reliability block diagrams).
- Understanding of fault tolerance, redundancy management, an

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