Job Category: Engineering

• Location: Denver, Colorado
• Type: Permanent
• Job #8299
• Salary: NON 160,000

Are you passionate about shaping the future of humanity's presence in space? Lunar Outpost, a trailblazer in space robotics, invites you to join our team! Lunar Outpost is dedicated to creating a sustainable presence in space, while also driving positive impacts here on Earth. We are seeking a talented Senior Autonomy Machine Learning Engineer.
 

As a Senior Autonomy Machine Learning Engineer, you will research, develop, train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models for Lunar Outpost’s lunar rovers, command-and-control platforms, terrestrial robotic systems, and orbital assets. Working at the intersection of robotics, autonomy, AI, and space exploration, you will develop technologies that enable robotic systems to perceive their environment, interpret operator intent, reason about mission objectives, generate plans, and safely execute complex tasks with reduced operator oversight. Your work will include transformer-based architectures, vision-language models, multimodal foundation models, robot learning, and intelligent planning and decision-support systems. You will help build datasets, evaluation frameworks, software infrastructure, and deployment pipelines that support applications ranging from natural-language vehicle control to onboard reasoning, anomaly detection, mission summarization, and multi-robot supervision. You will collaborate closely with robotics, software, simulation, and command-and-control engineering teams to transition emerging AI research into reliable capabilities.

Take the #NextLeap with Lunar Outpost and work on the Pegasus LTV, which will carry NASA astronauts farther than they've ever been before on the lunar surface!

Key Responsibilities:

• Research, design, train, fine-tune, and evaluate transformer-based machine learning architectures for autonomous robotic and command-and-control applications

• Develop vision-language-action models, vision-language models, and other multimodal models that connect operator intent and sensor observations to robot plans and actions

• Build capabilities for natural-language command interpretation, task decomposition, mission planning, action generation, operator decision support, and autonomous task execution

• Develop human-robot teaming capabilities that enable operators to efficiently supervise and command multiple robotic assets

• Create systems for mission summarization, anomaly detection, situational awareness, course-of-action generation, and operator-reviewable recommendations

• Integrate machine learning models with robotic platforms, simulation environments, command-and-control software, and autonomy frameworks

• Conduct hardware-in-the-loop tests, field tests, and structured demonstrations to validate capabilities under realistic operating conditions

• Participate in design reviews, trade studies, technical risk assessments, test-readiness reviews, and demonstrations

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

• 3 to 5 years of relevant professional, academic, or research experience developing machine learning systems, autonomous systems, or intelligent robotic applications

• Experience developing and evaluating deep learning models using Python and a modern machine learning framework such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow

• Experience in at least one of the following areas:

• • Vision-language models or multimodal foundation models

• • Robot learning, imitation learning, or reinforcement learning

• • Natural-language planning, tool use, or agentic systems

• • Autonomous planning, reasoning, or task execution

• Experience preparing datasets, implementing training pipelines, defining evaluation metrics, and analyzing model performance
• Strong software engineering skills, including experience writing maintainable and testable software
• Experience with Linux-based development environments, Git, and collaborative software development workflows 
• Ability to translate research concepts into working prototypes and evaluate those prototypes against measurable system objectives
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts, experimental results, limitations, and risks to multidisciplinary teams
• Comfortable working in a research-oriented, agile, and interdisciplinary environment where requirements and technical approaches may evolve rapidly
• U.S. Person

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
• Experience developing or fine-tuning VLMs, VLAs, large language models, or multimodal transformer architectures
• Experience with robot foundation models, action tokenization, multimodal policy learning, hierarchical policies, or language-conditioned control
• Experience applying supervised fine-tuning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, preference optimization, imitation learning, or reinforcement learning to foundation models
• Experience with robotics middleware and autonomy frameworks such as ROS2
• Experience integrating learned models with robot perception, planning, control, or command-and-control systems
• A record of technical innovation demonstrated through deployed systems, open-source contributions, publications, patents, or significant project achievements

Compensation & Benefits: Compensation level and base salary are competitively structured and thoughtfully determined based on factors such as relevant skills, experience, education, and the scope of the role.

• Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental, and vision benefits, with 70% of premiums covered by the employer
• Paid time off: Three (3) weeks per year of vacation
• Retirement plan: Up to 4% employer match on 401(k) contributions
• Paid holidays: 11 company-recognized holidays
• Parental leave
• Educational reimbursement opportunities to support company objectives, continued learning, and career development
   

Lunar Outpost Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Lunar Outpost Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. All employees, including executives and human resources personnel, are expected to conduct themselves with professionalism and treat others with dignity and respect in accordance with this policy.

• Location: Denver, Colorado
• Type: Permanent
• Job #8271
• Salary: NON 90,000

Location: Denver, Colorado

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package 

Environment: Smallsat Design and Manufacturing

The opportunity

There aren't many Quality Inspector roles where the hardware you sign off today could eventually be operating hundreds of kilometres above Earth.

This is one of them.

We’re supporting a fast-growing international space company that is expanding its US operations in Denver and building a high-performing team to manufacture, integrate and test the next generation of small satellites.

As that operation grows, they’re looking for a Quality Inspector who will become one of the most important checkpoints between a collection of individual components and flight-ready spacecraft hardware.

Because once something goes into space, you can't simply bring it back to the workshop and fix it.

Quality matters.

What will you actually be doing?

You'll work directly on the floor alongside the Assembly, Integration and Test (AIT) team, primarily within a cleanroom environment.

As spacecraft hardware moves through assembly and integration, you'll be there checking that every stage has been completed correctly before the next one begins.

You'll inspect boards, cables and mechanical components for defects, damage and workmanship issues.

You'll make sure engineers and technicians are working from the correct drawings, instructions and revisions.

You'll verify part numbers, serial numbers and lot numbers and make sure the supporting documentation matches the hardware in front of you.

You'll inspect work against defined checklists, record the results and sign off travellers and route cards once you're satisfied everything has been completed correctly.

You'll also help maintain the disciplines that are essential when building flight hardware — cleanroom procedures, correct gowning, ESD protection, contamination control and ensuring only approved materials enter controlled environments.

And when something doesn't look right?

You'll speak up.

You'll identify and flag non-conformances, help document the issue and work alongside the AIT team to catch problems early rather than allowing them to move further through the build process.

You'll also ensure inspection tools and gauges are properly maintained and within calibration and take photographic records of hardware or defects when required.

Who are we looking for?

You don't necessarily need to have built satellites before.

Experience within aerospace or space would obviously be valuable, but we're equally interested in people coming from other environments where quality simply cannot be compromised.

That could include electronics manufacturing, medical devices, automotive, aviation or another high-reliability engineering environment.

What matters is your mindset.

You're someone who notices the small things.

You're comfortable handling delicate components and carrying out detailed visual inspections.

You can read technical drawings and follow detailed work instructions.

You're methodical with documentation and understand why traceability matters.

Most importantly, you have the confidence and integrity to say:

“This isn't right.”

Even when everyone else is under pressure to hit a deadline.

You'll ideally have a technical secondary education or higher in electronics, mechanics or a related discipline.

Experience working within a cleanroom or ESD-controlled environment would be advantageous, as would electronics inspection experience or knowledge of standards such as IPC-A-610.

Why apply?

Because you'll be joining at an exciting stage.

The company is growing its US operation and building a team in Denver that will play an important role in its future spacecraft programmes.

You'll work alongside talented engineers and technicians solving genuine space engineering challenges and developing next-generation satellite technology.

It's a fast-moving environment where people are trusted to take ownership, solve problems and continuously improve how things are done.

There is also a strong emphasis on learning and development, including structured career progression, educational programmes and opportunities to learn directly from experienced international space professionals.

The role will be primarily on-site in Denver, with occasional opportunities to visit and collaborate with colleagues at the company's European headquarters.

What’s on offer?

Salary: $70,000 – $90,000 per year

You'll also receive health insurance coverage, a matching 401(k) plan and a generous team performance-based bonus.

If you've built your career around making sure things are done properly and you'd like the next hardware you inspect to have a destination considerably further away than the customer down the road, we'd love to hear from you.

• Location: Denver, Colorado
• Type: Permanent
• Job #8261
• Salary: NON 160,000

Location: Denver, Colorado

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package 

Environment: Smallsat Design and Manufacturing

What if you could take ownership of the thermal performance of a spacecraft from the first design decisions all the way through testing, launch and operations?

EVONA is working with a fast-growing space company that's building its US engineering team in Denver, Colorado, and we're looking for an experienced Spacecraft Thermal Engineer to join them.

You'll be joining a fast-paced, hands-on smallsat engineering and manufacturing environment, developing advanced satellites for commercial, government and scientific missions.

This is an opportunity to get close to the hardware, solve real spacecraft engineering problems and see your work ultimately fly.

The opportunity

As a Spacecraft Thermal Engineer, you'll be responsible for thermal engineering activities across the full spacecraft lifecycle.

From initial spacecraft design and thermal architecture through manufacturing, environmental testing, launch and flight operations, you'll have the opportunity to follow your engineering work from concept to orbit.

You'll work as part of a multidisciplinary Systems Engineering team, collaborating closely with mechanical, electrical, systems and AIT engineers to make sure the spacecraft performs across the environments it will encounter.

You'll work on both satellite platforms and customer-specific spacecraft, meaning the engineering challenges won't always be the same.

This isn't a role where you'll simply run an existing thermal model and produce a report.

You'll help define the thermal architecture.

You'll build and develop the models.

You'll make predictions.

You'll validate them through testing.

And when something doesn't behave as expected, you'll help figure out why.

What you'll be doing

You'll take responsibility for defining spacecraft thermal architectures, including radiators, thermal blankets, heaters and other thermal-control solutions.

You'll build and maintain spacecraft thermal models and use them to predict performance across hot and cold flight cases.

You'll support TVAC campaigns by predicting thermal behaviour, defining test success criteria and calculating thermal power consumption.

Once the hardware goes into testing, you'll correlate your models against real test results and refine them accordingly.

And when thermal issues arise, you'll investigate them, understand the root cause and work with the wider engineering team to drive them through to closure.

Your involvement won't necessarily stop at launch either.

You'll have the opportunity to support spacecraft through flight operations and see how the systems you've designed and analysed perform in the real environment of space.

Who we're looking for

We're looking for someone with a strong technical background in spacecraft thermal engineering who enjoys being close to both the analysis and the hardware.

You'll ideally bring:

• An MSc in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering or a related discipline
• Strong spacecraft thermal engineering knowledge
• Experience defining spacecraft thermal architectures
• Experience developing and working with thermal models
• Understanding of spacecraft hot-case and cold-case analysis
• Experience supporting thermal vacuum testing and model correlation
• A strong understanding of mechanical engineering principles
• The ability to investigate and solve complex thermal problems
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to engineering

You'll also be someone who takes ownership and understands that good engineering isn't finished until the solution is delivered and proven.

This role is primarily on-site in Denver, Colorado.

What would really make you stand out?

If you've spent 5+ years working on space programmes, I'd particularly like to hear from you.

Experience with nanosatellites or small satellites would be highly valuable.

Perhaps you've already taken spacecraft through thermal analysis, TVAC qualification and into flight.

Maybe you've worked in an environment where thermal engineers don't operate in isolation, but work directly alongside mechanical, systems, electronics and AIT teams to make rapid engineering decisions.

And if you're comfortable sharing your knowledge and helping develop more junior engineers around you, even better.

Why Apply?

Because you'll have the opportunity to work on real spacecraft and see the impact of your engineering decisions.

You'll be joining a fast-paced and delivery-focused environment where engineers are encouraged to take ownership, solve problems and continuously improve.

There are difficult engineering challenges to solve and plenty of hands-on R&D as the company continues developing its next generation of small satellite technology.

You'll also collaborate with experienced international engineering teams across Europe, with opportunities for occasional international travel.

The package includes:

• Salary of $120,000–$180,000 per year
• Health insurance
• Matching 401(k)
• Continued technical learning and development
• International collaboration and occasional travel

Most importantly, this is an opportunity to own your work from analysis to hardware.

If you're a spacecraft thermal engineer who wants to do more than sit behind a model — and you want to see your engineering decisions tested, qualified, launched and ultimately operating in space — we'd love to hear from you.

• Location: Denver, Colorado
• Type: Permanent
• Job #8259
• Salary: NON 180,000

Location: Denver, Colorado

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package 

Environment: Smallsat Design and Manufacturing

What if your next systems engineering role wasn't about maintaining a programme that's already been built?

What if you could help shape the satellites themselves?

EVONA is working with a fast-growing space company that's expanding its presence in the US and looking for an experienced Systems Engineer to join its team in Denver, Colorado.

This is an opportunity for someone who understands small satellites, enjoys solving difficult engineering problems and wants to work somewhere where decisions turn into hardware and missions quickly.

You'll be joining a fast-paced, hands-on smallsat engineering and manufacturing environment, developing advanced software-flexible satellites for commercial, government and scientific missions.

The opportunity

As a Systems Engineer, you'll sit at the centre of the spacecraft development process.

You'll work directly with customers to understand what they're trying to achieve, translate those mission objectives into clear technical requirements, and then work alongside hardware and software engineering teams to turn those requirements into a satellite solution that works.

You'll be involved from the early conversations and system definition right through the development lifecycle towards deployment.

This isn't a role where you'll simply inherit requirements and manage documentation.

You'll help define them.

You'll challenge them.

And you'll work with the engineering teams to make sure the spacecraft ultimately delivers what the mission requires.

What you'll be doing

You'll define and manage spacecraft system and subsystem requirements, translating high-level customer and mission needs into clear engineering requirements.

You'll work across satellite subsystems including communications, power, propulsion and other spacecraft systems, ensuring everything comes together at system level.

You'll collaborate closely with hardware and software engineers to refine technical solutions and resolve system-level challenges.

You'll also communicate directly with customers, evaluating technical requirements and helping develop and negotiate satellite and subsystem solutions.

Throughout the programme, you'll help drive projects from initial concept through development and ultimately deployment.

Who we're looking for

We're looking for someone who has already spent meaningful time designing and developing small satellites.

You'll ideally bring:

• 5+ years' experience designing and developing nanosatellites and/or small satellites
• A BSc or MSc in Aerospace Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science or a related discipline
• Strong understanding of satellite systems and subsystems, including communications, power and propulsion
• Experience turning high-level technical needs into well-defined system and subsystem requirements
• Experience working directly with customers and multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Strong written, verbal and visual technical communication skills
• The ability to communicate complex systems through schematics, sequences and state diagrams

You'll need to be based in the Denver area or willing to relocate to Colorado.

Due to the nature of the work, you'll also need to be a US citizen or US permanent resident.

What would really make you stand out?

Perhaps you've worked with mission budgets covering power, link or delta-V.

Maybe you've used STK or GMAT for orbit and mission analysis.

You might have experience with SolidWorks, DFMEA, UML/SysML or have a working knowledge of C/C++ or Python.

Experience with project and risk management or tools such as Jira and Confluence would also be valuable.

You don't necessarily need every one of these.

What matters most is that you understand spacecraft, can think at system level and enjoy solving complex engineering problems.

Why Apply?

You'll get the opportunity to work on real spacecraft and genuinely influence how they're designed.

This is a fast-paced, delivery-focused engineering environment tackling difficult technical problems and developing next-generation satellite technology.

You'll collaborate with highly experienced international engineering teams and have opportunities for occasional international travel.

The package includes:

• Salary of $145,000–$195,000
• Health insurance
• Matching 401(k)
• Generous team performance-based bonus
• Continued technical learning and development
• International collaboration and occasional travel

Most importantly, you'll be joining at an exciting stage of growth.

If you've spent the last few years designing small satellites and you're ready for a role where you can have a much bigger impact on the spacecraft, the mission and the engineering decisions behind them, I'd love to hear from you.