Vice President, System Architecture and Mission Assurance

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Meet Slingshot At Slingshot Aerospace, we're on a mission to make space safer and more secure for everyone. Our work directly impacts global security, disaster response, climate monitoring, and the critical infrastructure that connects our world. We're a team of builders, thinkers, and problem-solvers who believe that the next generation of space operations will be powered by better data and smarter software. What You'll Be Launching Slingshot Aerospace delivers operational intelligence and autonomy for the space domain. Through Space Operations Intelligence & Autonomy (SOIA), Slingshot integrates sensing, data fusion, analytics, AI-driven decision support, and mission workflows to help government, defense, civil, and commercial operators understand activity in space and take action with speed and confidence. We are seeking a Vice President of Systems Architecture & Mission Assurance to strengthen and scale the systems architecture, assurance strategy, and technical governance that support Slingshot's mission-critical software, AI/ML, data, sensor, and autonomy capabilities. Building on Slingshot's existing technical and operational foundations, this leader will mature the architecture and evidence-based engineering practices that keep Slingshot's platforms reliable, secure, interoperable, auditable, and ready for expanded operational use in high-consequence environments. This is a senior technical executive role for a systems thinker who can align product, engineering, AI/ML, security, program execution, and customer mission needs. The VP will help evolve and unify Slingshot's core capabilities - including Slingshot Portal, TALOS AI, Agatha AI, Beacon, Seradata, Digital Space Twin, the Developer Suite, the Data Catalog, and the Slingshot Global Sensor Network - as a cohesive mission system. The role will also expand Slingshot's mission assurance practices across software and hardware-enabled capabilities, including sensor systems such as Varda, Horus, and Argus as they integrate into customer solutions. Why This Role Matters Space operations are becoming more dynamic, contested, and time-sensitive. Slingshot's customers already rely on the company for intelligence, decision support, and operational insight in complex space environments. As customer missions become more demanding, this role will help extend that foundation with even greater architectural discipline, mission assurance rigor, and operational confidence. As Slingshot expands AI-enabled space operations, maneuver decision support, anomaly detection, coordination workflows, and autonomous mission capabilities, the Vice President of Systems Architecture & Mission Assurance will help ensure Slingshot systems continue to scale with disciplined rigor: clear requirements, traceable architectures, robust verification and validation, transparent AI/ML assurance, and resilient operating models. This leader will help Slingshot extend its mission-critical operational capabilities for customers who depend on trusted performance. Your Mission (Should you choose to accept it) Enterprise and Mission Systems Architecture Own the end-to-end systems architecture for Slingshot's mission software and data ecosystem, ensuring that products, platforms, services, APIs, data pipelines, AI/ML models, and customer workflows operate as a coherent and scalable mission architecture. Define architecture principles, technical standards, integration patterns, and design review processes across Slingshot Portal, the Data Catalog, Analytics, AI, Developer Suite, Beacon, Digital Space Twin, Seradata, and related mission applications. Ensure Slingshot's architecture supports secure deployment models, classified and unclassified environments, interoperability with customer mission systems, and integration of proprietary, customer, government, and third-party data sources. Partner with product and engineering leaders to align architecture roadmaps with customer mission needs, contract deliverables, platform scalability, and long-term product strategy. Mission Assurance and High-Assurance Engineering Strengthen, scale, and lead Slingshot's mission assurance function for software-intensive and hardware-enabled space operations capabilities. Mature repeatable assurance processes for requirements management, design control, safety and risk analysis, verification and validation, configuration management, technical review governance, issue disposition, and operational readiness. Expand certification-ready evidence frameworks and safety cases for mission-critical capabilities, with tailored application of relevant standards and practices such as NASA software engineering and software assurance guidance, aerospace design assurance practices, automotive systems safety, cybersecurity, and customer-specific mission assurance requirements. Lead independent technical assessment of high-consequence features, including autonomous decision support, conjunction assessment, anomal

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