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Space Datacenter Architect

Cowboy Space Corporation· Chief Engineering & Reliability
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San Carlos, California$240k - $340kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Space Datacenter Architect responsible for end-to-end technical architecture to turn accelerator-class compute into flight-ready, commercially useful infrastructure for space-based datacenter, spanning compute, networking, storage, power, cooling, firmware, software, security, reliability, and test.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Space Datacenter architecture across hardware, firmware, software, and fault management.
  • Translate mission and customer workloads into requirements, interfaces, performance targets, technical budgets, and acceptance criteria.
  • Define node and cluster architectures, including failure domains and graceful-degradation behavior.
  • Drive quantitative trades across throughput, power, thermal margin, radiation risk, mass, cost, manufacturability, and schedule.
  • Establish interfaces for boot, provisioning, orchestration, observability, updates, fault isolation, and autonomous recovery.
  • Define qualification and recovery evidence with reliability, validation, and subsystem owners.
  • Lead architecture reviews, resolve cross-functional conflicts, and maintain requirements traceability.
  • Guide major platform and supplier decisions and communicate technical risk clearly to engineering and company leadership.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years architecting complex compute or other integrated hardware/software systems.
  • Experience taking a multidisciplinary system from requirements through integration and validation.
  • Experience with GPU, AI, HPC, or other accelerator-based systems at server, rack, or cluster scale.
  • Strong technical judgment across compute hardware, networking, storage, power, cooling, firmware, and infrastructure software.
  • Demonstrated ability to make high-consequence decisions using quantitative trades and test evidence.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Required:Space Datacenter architectureRequirements translationQualification and verification planning

Benefits

  • Equity in Cowboy Space Corp.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan.
  • Paid time off and 10 paid holidays per calendar year.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Relocation assistance, if applicable.
  • Daily lunch in the office and a fully stocked kitchen with beverages and snacks.
Last updated Sep 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Cowboy Space Corporation

Powering Humanity From the High Frontier

Cowboy Space Corp. is building a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence. It is an integrated system of satellites and rockets to haul high-performance compute and optical data transmission down from Low Earth Orbit. Earth's energy grid can't run at the pace of AI. We can.

Orbital Data CentersAI compute in spacesolar-powered data centersLow Earth Orbitpower grid in space
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