Director of Integration & Test

Technical & Program Leadership

• Lead end-to-end spacecraft assembly, integration, and test activities across the full mission lifecycle, from proposal and design phases through launch campaign execution.
• Provide strategic oversight and technical leadership for all spacecraft and payload AI&T activities.
• Drive verification & validation (V&V) execution to ensure mission readiness and compliance with system requirements.
• Support environmental test campaigns including thermal vacuum, vibration, acoustic, EMI/EMC, and functional testing activities.
• Review and guide AI&T plans, test procedures, test scripts, Ground Support Equipment (GSE) requirements, and associated deliverables.
• Partner with Systems Engineering teams to evaluate integration approaches, parts selection, and mission performance considerations.
• Participate in anomaly investigations, nonconformance reviews, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned activities.
• Support launch campaign execution, including final spacecraft integration, troubleshooting, and launch site readiness activities.

Operational & Organizational Leadership

• Help define and mature Orion’s long-term integration and test strategy as the organization continues to scale.
• Develop and improve repeatable AI&T processes while balancing agility, execution speed, and mission assurance.
• Operate effectively in a matrixed environment where collaboration across multiple programs and technical disciplines is essential.
• Provide hands-on leadership and mentorship to engineering and integration teams.
• Work closely with program leadership to identify integration risks, schedule impacts, staffing needs, and operational gaps.
• Collaborate with supplier manufacturing and test organizations to ensure successful delivery timelines and mission performance objectives.
• Support strategic planning efforts tied to future growth, infrastructure expansion, and operational capability development.
• Serve as a trusted technical leader capable of communicating effectively with engineers, program managers, executives, suppliers, and customers.

Culture & Leadership Expectations

• Lead from the front in a highly collaborative and execution-focused environment.
• Remain connected to day-to-day engineering and operational realities rather than operating solely from a high-level management perspective.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, teamwork, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Help maintain Orion’s entrepreneurial and mission-driven culture during a period of rapid organizational growth.

• BS 16-18, MS 14+, PhD 10+
• Proven experience leading spacecraft integration and environmental test campaigns through launch readiness  

• Background supporting complex aerospace and national security space programs 

• Strong understanding of spacecraft subsystem integration, verification, and validation activities  

• Experience collaborating across systems engineering, hardware, software, manufacturing, and mission operations teams  

• Ability to balance technical depth with organizational leadership in a mission-focused environment  

• Experience scaling engineering organizations and developing repeatable processes in growth environments  
• Abilty to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI

Preferred: 

• Active or prior security clearance  

• Familiarity with launch campaign operations and anomaly resolutions efforts

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.