BESXAR
Director, Product and Mission Engineering
Washington, DC · Director
Sponsorship not specified$185k-$210kDetected 23 days ago
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About the role
- This role sits at the intersection of engineering and business, tactical execution and long-term strategy.
- As an early-stage company, this role requires both breadth and depth.
Responsibilities
- This role will drive the outcome of missions or products, responsible for aligning disparate engineering, test and business development equities, making correct tradeoffs, priorities, setting schedule etc.
- This role will initially run program execution directly and, over time, build and lead a mission operations function that takes on day-to-day execution of specific efforts.
- Partner with the Head of Engineering and Test Lead to ensure successful mission and product execution, and elevate technical, architectural, test, or verification issues to them when those fall within their authority.
- Build and lead the program management function at Besxar - hire and develop the team, and establish the standards and practices for how Besxar runs integrated programs from definition through delivery.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a self-starter in ambiguous environments and bring decisions to closure without heavy oversight.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, materials science, or a similar technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in semiconductors (compound semiconductor materials or semiconductor process equipment) or space hardware development (spacecraft, satellite, launch, propulsion, robotics).
- Experience supporting proposals, capture efforts, and/or contract negotiations as the technical owner of what is being committed to.
- Experience in early-stage or high-growth environments where speed, risk management, and decision-making under uncertainty
- Experience supporting export-controlled or ITAR-sensitive hardware development efforts.
- Must be willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed around test campaigns, flight readiness, and major customer milestones.
- Ability to travel for short and extended trips as needed (up to 25%).
Nice to have
- Preferred Skills and Experience
Compensation
- Base salary will vary depending on job-related knowledge, education, skills, experience, business needs, and market demand.
Company info
- Besxar Space Industries, Inc. (Besxar) is building off-Earth foundries that use the natural ultra-high vacuum of space as a manufacturing input. Our Fabships are designed to produce trusted, ultra-high-yield semiconductor materials that are difficult or impossible to make on Earth at comparable purity and defect performance.
- We are not building a science project
- we are building a new industrial capability. That means real hardware, rapid iteration, disciplined execution, and a willingness to challenge assumptions from first principles as we design, fly, learn, and improve mission by mission.
- Besxar Space Industries, Inc. (Besxar) is building off-Earth foundries that use the natural ultra-high vacuum of space as a manufacturing input.
- Our Fabships are designed to produce trusted, ultra-high-yield semiconductor materials that are difficult or impossible to make on Earth at comparable purity and defect performance.
- We are not building a science project; we are building a new industrial capability.
- That means real hardware, rapid iteration, disciplined execution, and a willingness to challenge assumptions from first principles as we design, fly, learn, and improve mission by mission.
- Own delivery of mission and product outcomes to Besxar customers - accountable for ensuring each assigned configuration, mission, or customer engagement is delivered as committed.
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