Ownership
You do not wait for someone else to carry the work forward. You take responsibility for what you build, follow through when it matters, and treat the success of the mission as something you personally help shape.

As humanity reaches farther into space, protection must go with us. Bring your curiosity, rigor, and ambition to the systems that make that future possible.
Explore positions ↓Brian founded Oroff to help protect humanity as it expands beyond Earth. His background in astrophysics and planetary defense shapes a mission that connects scientific understanding with the development of practical protective capabilities.
Today, that work begins with AllSight: developing intelligence about natural meteoroid environments to support spacecraft design, mission assurance, and operations.
Technical architecture for planetary defense systems.
Leads Oroff’s technical execution, system architecture, and engineering teams across detection, spacecraft, autonomy, and mitigation programs.
Turn planetary defense from concept into capability: disciplined architecture, rigorous engineering, and flight-ready systems built for missions where failure is not acceptable.
The physical backbone of planetary defense hardware.
Leads the mechanical design, structural architecture, and hardware integration of Oroff’s spacecraft, payloads, deployables, and flight systems, ensuring they can survive launch, operate reliably in space, and support mission-critical planetary defense operations.
Build the physical backbone of planetary defense: precise, resilient, flight-ready hardware engineered to endure launch, survive deep space, and protect the mission when failure is not an option.
The nervous system of Oroff spacecraft.
Leads the electrical and embedded hardware architecture for Oroff’s spacecraft systems, ensuring power, computing, sensing, communications interfaces, and fault-tolerant electronics operate reliably across launch, orbit, and deep-space mission environments.
Build the nervous system of planetary defense: robust, disciplined, flight-ready electronics that keep the spacecraft alive, aware, and responsive when the mission depends on it.
The onboard logic that turns spacecraft into operational systems.
Leads the development of Oroff’s onboard software systems, translating mission requirements into reliable flight code for command, control, autonomy, sequencing, fault management, and spacecraft operations.
Write the logic that lets planetary defense act: dependable, testable, mission-critical software that turns spacecraft hardware into an autonomous operational system.
The eyes of planetary defense.
Leads the design, integration, and performance validation of Oroff’s optical sensing systems, ensuring the company’s detection and targeting payloads can find, track, and characterize natural hazards across deep-space environments.
Build the eyes of planetary defense: precise, sensitive, and resilient optical systems that see hazards early enough for humanity to act.
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Operators. Researchers. Engineers. Partners.
Help build the next chapter of planetary defense.
