The Spaceship Company
Balkar Sidhu is a highly experienced engineering professional currently serving as Principal Engineer at The Spaceship Company and as Principal Engineer for Avionics Systems at Virgin Galactic since July 2018. Prior to these roles, Balkar held the position of Principal Hardware Engineer at Oracle from March 2010 to March 2017, leading the design, testing, and release of advanced rack management solutions for data center infrastructures. Balkar's earlier experience includes a decade as Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where responsibilities involved the design of multicore SPARC-based CPU compute nodes, and a role as Hardware Engineer at Intermec by Honeywell focused on hardware design for PDA docking stations. Balkar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Greenwich, earned between September 1982 and July 1985.
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The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company (TSC) is Virgin Galactic’s aerospace-system manufacturing organization. Headquartered in Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California, it is building and testing a fleet of WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft and SpaceShipTwo reusable spaceships that, together, form Virgin Galactic’s human spaceflight system. We are proud to share the Virgin Group heritage and value our position as an integral part of a remarkable story and globally celebrated brand. Like many Virgin companies across the world, its team of over 430 talented and dedicated engineers, technicians and professionals are drawn together by a willingness to disrupt and challenge the status quo and deliver innovative aerospace solutions to our customers’ needs. The Spaceship Company has a straightforward name: as you would expect, we build spaceships. But we also do much more. The Spaceship Company’s extensive capabilities encompass preliminary vehicle design and analysis, manufacturing, ground testing, flight testing and post-delivery support. The Spaceship Company team is uniquely positioned to offer end-to-end aerospace development with extensive experience in design, manufacturing, and testing. We are proud of our relaxed and informal culture that encourages individuality and innovation. Our team is built on motivated, enterprising and enthusiastic contributors. Our company culture and values are set up in such a way that you need to be able to “check your ego at the door”, be a self-starter and possess a sense of humility. We thrive under pressure, are driven by challenges and aren't afraid to set the goals that will take us to new heights.