Chief Systems Engineer / Partner Fully Remote-first, EU hours, Riga/Mangaluru, Equity/revenue share, Flexible schedule. Interplanetary Studios is building a patent-pending colonization architecture for the Moon, Mars and Venus, centered around a crewed multi-environment spaceplane, invented by Frederic Eger. Inventor Frederic Eger is looking for the head of engineering who turns the design into one controlled baseline, a department structure and a funded path from sub-scale demonstrators to the full vehicle. This is a Partner/Co-Founder role, not an employee job. It is a multi-decade commitment, but not a 9-to-5: keep other work if it never conflicts with ours, and we measure output, not hours. *The project must matter to you regardless of the money.
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What you'll do
1. Own the engineering baseline: requirements, data sheets, interface documents, change control; 2. Own vehicle mass, power, thermal, volume and propellant budgets; 3. Lead architecture trades and build the engineering departments; 4. Drive verification and certification, from analysis to flight; 5. Be our technical voice with investors, partners and regulators; What we're looking for: 1.



Master's or higher in aerospace, mechanical or systems engineering; 2. 12+ years in systems engineering, with a complete vehicle or safety-critical system taken through first flight, certification or field operation;

Requirements:
1. MBSE (SysML), trade studies, failure analysis, safety cases; 2. Founded or led a venture where your own money or reputation was at risk; 3. Persistence: when the plan collapses, you come back with the next one; What you get: A founding-team seat with authority over the whole engineering organisation Pre-funding: revenue share and/or ownership, agreed individually, plus a modest monthly expense allowance. No conventional salary until funding closes.

How to apply
Send your Resume/CV along with cover letter here and answer the screening questions. Selection Process: 2 x short ~20min videocalls, mutual NDA, two-week unpaid trial on a real work package, then agreement. Technical details are shared only after the final Co-Founder/Partner Agreement.

📌 Chief Systems Engineer (Mangalore)
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