# System Architect

Hiring organization: [Stoke Space](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/stoke-space)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/7f504f85-b6e5-4e8f-b975-f8b126a39767

Listed on Stoke Space's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Kent, WA
- Salary: 129150 – 327810 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads the architectural design and requirements definition for a reusable launch vehicle, translating business and customer goals into feasible technical concepts through analysis and trade studies. It suits an aerospace engineer with deep technical fundamentals and experience managing complex, high-performance systems through rapid development cycles.

_Our summary, not Stoke Space's wording._

## Skills named

Software Architecture, Systems Engineering

## Required

- Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering or related field
- 10+ years of engineering experience on complex, high-performance, high-reliability systems with rapid development
- Deep fundamentals in at least one of: aerospace structures, mechanisms, propulsion, avionics, software, or flight dynamics
- Ability to perform first-order analysis across multiple engineering disciplines
- Ability to make decisions and move quickly under uncertainty
- Strong written and verbal communication
- U.S. citizenship or equivalent ITAR eligibility

## Nice to have

- Master's degree or PhD in aerospace engineering or related field
- Experience on a launch vehicle or spacecraft program from concept through flight test

Apply on Stoke Space's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stokespacetechnologies/jobs/6182884004