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Quality Inspector

  • 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.

Thermal Engineer

  • Location: Denver
  • 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.

Systems Engineer

  • 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.

Construction Manager

  • Location: Toronto
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8221
  • Salary: NON 150,000

Location: Toronto, Canada

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package + stock options

Environment: Greenfield Infrastructure | Rocket Propulsion | High-Pressure Systems

Build the infrastructure that gets rocket engines firing.

Most Construction Manager roles start with a building.

This one starts with a rocket.

A heavily backed Canadian space company is developing the country's first medium-lift launch vehicle and before that vehicle can ever reach orbit, the infrastructure needed to develop, test and qualify its propulsion systems has to be built.

That means test facilities. High-pressure systems. Cryogenic infrastructure. Process piping. Utilities. Roads. Heavy civil works. Buildings. And ultimately, the facilities where a 725 kN rocket engine will be put through its paces.

We are looking for the Construction Manager who will turn those plans into reality.

This isn't a role where you'll inherit a finished facility and manage contractors carrying out minor upgrades.

You'll help build it from the ground up.

The mission

The company has assembled engineers and leaders from some of the world's most successful launch, aerospace and technology organisations, bringing experience from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, ArianeGroup, Pangea Propulsion, Tesla, MDA and others.

The engineering philosophy is deliberately pragmatic: use proven technology, move quickly, test early and often, and discover problems on the test stand rather than on the launch pad.

That philosophy extends to the infrastructure programme.

Engineering will define what needs to be built.

Your job is to make sure it actually gets built — safely, correctly and on schedule.

You'll take engineered designs and turn them into operational facilities, owning construction execution from site mobilisation through to inspection, commissioning and final handover.

On a programme like this, construction isn't supporting the company schedule.

Construction is the company schedule.

What you'll own

You'll be the person responsible for execution in the field.

You'll select, onboard and manage general contractors and specialist trades across civil, structural, mechanical and electrical workstreams.

You'll own sequencing and daily site coordination, run contractor meetings, monitor progress and make sure commitments actually turn into completed work.

You'll have the authority to challenge contractors on schedule, cost, quality and safety — and the judgement to know the difference between a genuine constructability problem and an unnecessary change order.

You'll also:

  • Own construction execution from mobilisation through closeout.
  • Establish and enforce the site safety programme.
  • Manage general contractors and specialist trade contractors.
  • Coordinate multiple concurrent civil, structural, mechanical and electrical workstreams.
  • Provide constructability, cost and schedule input during design reviews.
  • Raise RFIs and field changes before problems become expensive.
  • Coordinate inspections and interactions with authorities having jurisdiction.
  • Maintain the QA/QC and inspection records required for system acceptance.
  • Verify contractor progress and support payment certification.
  • Track construction cost and schedule against the programme baseline.
  • Drive punch lists and deficiency closeout.
  • Manage the handover of as-builts, O&M manuals, warranties and training.
  • Take completed infrastructure through commissioning and into Facilities.

The infrastructure is different

You don't need to have built a rocket test stand before.

But you do need to be comfortable around serious industrial infrastructure.

The programme will involve environments where pressure systems, process piping, hazardous fluids and potentially cryogenic systems mean construction quality isn't simply about whether something looks right.

It has to work.

And it has to work safely.

Experience with propulsion facilities, test stands, high-pressure systems or cryogenic installations would therefore be extremely valuable, but we're equally interested in people coming from adjacent industries such as aerospace, energy, oil & gas, chemical processing, heavy industrial, advanced manufacturing or major infrastructure.

If you've built complicated facilities where mechanical systems matter as much as concrete and steel, we want to hear from you.

You'll work as part of a deliberately lean team

This isn't a large corporate infrastructure department with layers of people between engineering and construction.

The model is simple:

Engineering defines it.

Procurement buys it.

Construction builds it.

Facilities runs it.

You'll work directly with the Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager, who owns the technical baseline, and the Facilities Manager, who will ultimately inherit what you build.

Accountability will be clear, but in a startup environment nobody operates inside a narrow box.

If something needs solving, you'll be expected to get involved.

What we're looking for

We're looking for someone who has spent meaningful time on construction sites, not someone whose experience has primarily been managing projects from an office.

You'll ideally bring:

  • 8+ years delivering industrial, heavy civil or complex institutional construction projects.
  • Direct responsibility for general contractors and trade contractors.
  • Experience coordinating civil, structural, mechanical and electrical disciplines simultaneously.
  • Strong practical knowledge of construction safety legislation and site responsibilities.
  • The ability to confidently interpret engineering drawings and specifications.
  • Experience managing construction schedules, costs, changes and project closeout.
  • Strong contractor management and commercial judgement.
  • The confidence to challenge problems early rather than allow them to become delays later.
  • Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where some of the processes are still being created.

A degree or diploma in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline would be useful, although a strong building-trade background combined with substantial supervisory and project leadership experience can be equally relevant.

Gold Seal Certification, CET, P.Eng or equivalent credentials would also be advantageous.

Particularly interesting experience

We'd be especially interested in speaking with people who have worked with:

  • Greenfield industrial site development
  • Earthworks, utilities and roads
  • Process piping
  • Pressure systems
  • Cryogenic installations
  • Propulsion or engine test facilities
  • Hazardous fluid systems
  • ASME B31.3 / CSA B51 environments
  • Welding inspection and pressure testing
  • Ontario building and fire codes
  • OHSA constructor responsibilities
  • Complex mechanical infrastructure

Why join?

Because very few Construction Managers get the opportunity to point at a functioning rocket test facility several years from now and say:

“I built that.”

The company has already secured more than $20 million in funding during its first four months, including significant backing from Canada's Department of National Defence.

Now comes the difficult part.

Turning funding, engineering and ambition into physical infrastructure.

If you enjoy greenfield projects, like being close to the work and want genuine ownership rather than simply administering somebody else's construction programme, this is an opportunity to build something that doesn't currently exist.

And what gets built here will ultimately help put a Canadian launch vehicle into orbit.

On top of all of this you will receive a highly competitive package which includes six weeks holiday and lucrative stock options.

Principal Flight Software Engineer

  • Location: Gloucestershire
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8212

Principal Flight Software Engineer

Role Overview Drive embedded Linux and networking architecture for satellite flight systems and secondary RTOS platforms. Lead technical projects end-to-end, mentor engineers, and own CI/CD infrastructure for a growing space technology team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Flight Systems Architecture: Lead BSP bring-up, device drivers, custom protocol stacks, and link-layer integrations with satellite/RF hardware.
  • Technical Leadership: Set coding standards, perform code reviews, lead cross-functional technical discussions, and drive engineering best practices.
  • Systems & Infrastructure: Support SiL simulation environments, resolve complex hardware/software integration issues, and manage release pipelines.

Core Qualifications

  • 8+ years in software engineering with a primary focus on embedded Linux.
  • ???????Deep expertise in Linux kernel internals (drivers, device trees, kernel builds)
  • Strong background in TCP/IP, UDP, routing, and custom communication protocols.
  • Proficient in C, C++ (C++17), and Python (automation/tooling).
  • Hands-on with Yocto, Buildroot, real-time Linux (PREEMPT_RT), and RTOS.
  • Experienced with JTAG, SWD, GDB, oscilloscopes, and logic/network analyzers.
  • Skilled in modern practices: Git, CI/CD, unit testing, Jira.

Nice-to-Have

  • RF systems integration, embedded security (TLS, secure boot), CUDA, high-reliability/fault-tolerant design patterns.

Work Environment

  • Office/lab-based hands-on testing with occasional travel; light physical duties (lifting up to 25 lbs).

Associate Mechanisms Engineer

  • Location: Midland, Texas
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8206
  • Salary: NON 85,000

Associate Mechanisms Engineer

Position Overview

Launch your career in Space. We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Associate Mechanisms Engineer to support the assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) of spacecraft mechanisms. This is a hands-on role working closely with design, test, and production teams to ensure the successful build, qualification, and delivery of space mechanisms and subsystems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support Production during spacecraft mechanism build, integration, and verification.

  • Perform and support mechanism and subsystem-level testing.

  • Develop test requirements, processes, materials, and tooling for vibration, shock, TVAC, and assembly activities.

  • Participate in design, analysis, and trade studies to determine appropriate AIT strategies.

  • Work with Design Engineering to improve manufacturing flow, cost, and hardware layout.

  • Collect and analyze test data and prepare detailed engineering reports.

  • Troubleshoot hardware anomalies and failures, perform root-cause analysis, and support corrective actions.

  • Contribute to mechanism design improvements based on findings during testing and production.

Qualifications

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.

Experience

  • 0–2 years of relevant experience in aerospace, precision hardware assembly, integration, or testing.

Preferred Experience

  • Space-qualified mechanisms such as actuators, release devices, hinges, latches, or deployment systems.

  • Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) and nonconformance resolution.

  • Spacecraft or aerospace Assembly, Integration & Test (AIT).

  • Environmental testing including vibration, shock, and thermal vacuum (TVAC).

  • Cleanroom practices and contamination control.

  • ECAD/MCAD integration, configuration control, and product data management.

  • Relevant standards or certifications including IPC-A-610/J-STD-001, NASA-STD-8739, ECSS-Q-ST-70, AS9100, or Six Sigma.

Technical Skills

  • CAD: Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, NX, Creo, or similar.

  • Analysis: FEA experience is beneficial.

  • PDM/PLM: Fusion or equivalent systems.

  • Testing: LabVIEW or similar data acquisition/test systems is preferred. 

  • General: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.

 

Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager

  • Location: Toronto
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8199
  • Salary: NON 160,000

Location: Toronto, Canada

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package + stock options

Imagine joining a launch company at the point where the drawings are about to become concrete, steel, pipework and ultimately a place where rocket engines will fire.

This is not an established aerospace business maintaining infrastructure that already exists. The company is building Canada’s first medium-lift launch vehicle and much of the infrastructure needed to test, develop and launch it still needs to be created.

The team behind it includes veterans of some of the world’s most successful launch, aerospace and engineering organisations, bringing more than a century of combined launch and space systems experience to the programme.

The engineering philosophy is deliberately pragmatic.

A single 725 kN engine will scale from light- to medium-lift through engine clustering. Proven technologies are favoured over unnecessary complexity. Hardware will be tested early and often, finding problems on the test stand rather than discovering them at the launch pad.

And this isn’t a company waiting for funding before it can move.

More than $20M was secured within its first four months, including the largest all-Canadian seed round in the sector and an $8.3M Department of National Defence grant.

Now the infrastructure has to catch up with the ambition.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager who can help turn that ambition into something physical.

Test facilities. Launch infrastructure. Utilities. Equipment. Control systems. Concrete. Conduit.

You’ll take ownership of the technical baseline and integrated execution of the company’s test and launch infrastructure, from detailed design through construction and commissioning.

At many organisations, infrastructure sits quietly in the background.

Here, it is on the critical path.

The engineering decisions you make today will determine what gets built tomorrow and ultimately whether engines can be tested and vehicles can be launched.

You’ll act as the engineering authority for the programme, sitting at the intersection of engineering, procurement, construction and facilities.

You won’t necessarily design every system yourself. Instead, you’ll make sure the entire programme works as one integrated system.

You’ll manage third-party engineering firms across multiple disciplines, own requirements and the integrated schedule, establish the technical baseline and make the engineering decisions that construction and procurement execute against.

The environment is fast-paced, highly autonomous and deliberately lean.

What You’ll Own

You’ll translate programme requirements into engineering scopes, specifications and acceptance criteria, while establishing the change-control processes that keep engineering, procurement and construction working from the same technical baseline.

Third-party engineering firms will look to you as their primary technical interface. You’ll manage their scopes and deliverables, integrate work across disciplines and hold partners accountable for schedule, quality and technical performance.

You’ll own the integrated programme schedule and budget baseline across design, procurement and construction identifying the critical path and making sure long-lead decisions happen before they become programme delays.

When major equipment and systems need to be purchased, you’ll develop the technical specifications and work alongside Supply Chain to evaluate potential vendors.

As designs move towards reality, you’ll run design and constructability reviews alongside Construction and Facilities, resolving RFIs and engineering changes as issues emerge in the field.

And when the infrastructure is finally built, your responsibility doesn’t stop.

You’ll own the technical side of commissioning, defining commissioning plans, acceptance criteria and functional testing before signing off the systems for handover into operational use.

Ultimately, you’ll be the person keeping engineering, procurement, construction and facilities aligned around one technical plan.

The Team Around You

You won’t be doing this alone.

The infrastructure group is intentionally small, with clear ownership across four areas.

Engineering owns the technical baseline.

Supply Chain sources the equipment and manages commercial commitments.

Construction turns the designs into physical infrastructure.

Facilities takes ownership once those systems become operational.

The boundaries are clear, but in a company moving this quickly, collaboration matters more than job titles.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll likely have at least five years’ experience delivering infrastructure, facilities or complex industrial projects within environments such as aerospace, energy, advanced manufacturing or heavy industry.

You’ll have a strong engineering foundation and be comfortable reviewing drawings, specifications and multidisciplinary design packages rather than simply managing a programme from a spreadsheet.

Experience managing external engineering firms is important, as is the ability to hold suppliers and partners accountable for scope, schedule and quality.

You’ll understand integrated schedules and budgets, procurement workflows and equipment commissioning.

Most importantly, you’ll be comfortable operating somewhere where not every process already exists.

In some cases, you’ll be expected to build the process yourself.

Experience with test stands, propulsion infrastructure or hazardous fluid systems would be particularly valuable, as would exposure to instrumentation, DAQ or control architecture.

P.Eng status or eligibility in Ontario would also be advantageous, alongside knowledge of relevant Ontario building and fire codes and Canadian standards.

Why Join?

There aren’t many opportunities where an infrastructure engineer can point to a facility several years from now and say:

“I helped build that from the ground up.”

There are even fewer where the facility you’ve helped create exists to test rocket engines and support a national orbital launch capability.

The company already has the funding, engineering pedigree and launch ambition.

Now it needs the infrastructure to make it real.

That’s where you come in.

 

Site Reliability Engineer

  • Location: Irvine, California
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8196
  • Salary: NON 105,000

Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Irvine, CA
Salary: $90,000 – $105,000
About the Company
We design, build, and operate the largest fleet of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites in the world. Using advanced technology, our constellation collects topographical data about any location on Earth, day or night, through any weather conditions.
Headquartered in Southern California, our customers are society’s heroes – intelligence professionals, warfighters, first responders, and scientific researchers. As a trusted mission partner, the United States and its allies depend on us for critical information when it matters most.
Position Summary
Join our team as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience and play a pivotal role in optimizing our systems for peak reliability. Working alongside a team of skilled DevOps engineers, you'll find yourself in a collaborative and supportive environment where your ideas are valued, and your contributions make a tangible impact.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities

  • Assist in the design and implementation of strategies to improve the reliability of our systems
  • Work with Datadog, LGTM stack, AWS, and Kubernetes to monitor, analyze, and optimize system reliability
  • Support the development of custom monitoring and alerting solutions to identify and address issues proactively
  • Follow and contribute to SRE best practices to maintain the stability and resilience of our infrastructure
  • Participate in on-call rotations and provide timely responses to incidents

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 2+ years of experience working with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, etc.
  • Basic understanding of networking, distributed systems, and microservices architecture
  • Experience with configuring and maintaining databases and other critical services
  • Basic scripting and automation skills using Python or similar programming languages

Preferred Qualifications

  • Exposure to DevOps methodologies
  • Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and related tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
  • Basic understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker
  • Basic understanding of Data Platform Tools such as Fivetran, Databricks, and Holistics
  • Certifications in AWS, Kubernetes, or related technologies are a plus

Pay Range and Compensation Package
The estimated base salary range for this role is $90k – $105k depending on experience.
Other benefits include health coverage, flexible PTO, a friendly work environment, plus extra fun perks!

 

Senior GNC Engineer

  • Location: Littleton, Colorado
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8194
  • Salary: NON 190,000

Senior GNC Engineer
LITTLETON, CO
Salary: $150,000 – $190,000
About the Opportunity
Join an innovative space technology that designs, builds, and operates a diverse range of small satellite systems supporting space-based turnkey missions for several business applications, including earth observation, communications, in-orbit demonstrations, risk reduction, science, and exploration. Astro Digital is headquartered in Littleton, Colorado with 100+ employees and infrastructure around the globe.

Position Summary
We're looking for an experienced Senior Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer to take ownership of the analysis that makes our spacecraft fly. You'll drive high-fidelity simulation, performance evaluation, and system-level analysis of GNC systems and roll up your sleeves to shape flight software in C++.
From large deployable structures and laser communications to high-precision astrophysics observations, in-space robotics, constellations, and rendezvous & proximity operations, you'll get your hands on the full spectrum of cutting-edge spacecraft missions.
Your analysis will directly steer Systems Engineering on mission design and CONOPS, along with the actuator and sensor performance requirements that define what's possible. Proficiency in C++ and Python is essential—you'll help build and maintain the modeling, simulation, and analysis tool stack that we use to design these missions.
This is a remote-friendly role, open to US-based candidates.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

  • Build high-fidelity models and simulations of spacecraft GNC systems and prove them out across every mission phase
  • Conduct Monte Carlo analyses, covariance studies, and performance assessments to validate GNC algorithms before they fly
  • Create and evolve the simulation and analysis tools we use to design missions and flight software components that implement them
  • Analyze sensor and actuator performance, including propulsion subsystems, star trackers, IMUs, reaction wheels, and GNSS
  • Write and refine C++ flight software GNC components and flight software configuration
  • Support verification and validation of flight software through unit testing and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations
  • Collaborate with systems engineering, mission design, and flight software teams to ensure GNC performance meets mission requirements
  • Document analysis results, software interfaces, and validation procedures

Minimum Qualifications

  • U.S. person status required (U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident) to comply with ITAR/EAR export-control regulations
  • Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in spacecraft GNC analysis and simulation
  • Strong understanding of spacecraft dynamics, control systems, and estimation techniques (e.g., Kalman filtering)
  • Proficiency in C++ and Python
  • Experience developing Monte Carlo simulations and numerical analysis tools
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and technical documentation skills
  • Strong attention to detail and accuracy
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
  • Strong controls foundation through advanced coursework, research, or control law design
  • Hands-on work with commercial flight software frameworks (e.g., GNC-capable satellite flight software stacks)
  • On-orbit operations experience, including early-orbit commissioning and anomaly response
  • Track record of developing flight software for space missions
  • Familiarity with spacecraft polarity/phasing and other GNC-related testing
  • Direct exposure with rendezvous & proximity operations (RPO)
  • Experience creating analysis frameworks and models from scratch, not just operating existing tools
  • Proven ability to communicate and coordinate independently across systems engineering, flight software, and mission design teams
  • Familiarity with Linux development environments and version control systems (e.g., Git)

Pay Transparency
Astro Digital employees are provided with a comprehensive benefits package that includes company stock options, healthcare, 401k retirement plan, and PTO. The range of possible compensation for this role is $150k–$190k annually, depending on candidate experience, alignment, and location

 

RF Design Engineer

  • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8193
  • Salary: NON 230,000

Principal RF/Microwave Engineer — Spaceborne Radar Payloads

About the opportunity

An early-stage space company is building advanced electronically-steerable radar payloads for Low Earth Orbit, and needs a principal-level RF/microwave engineer to own one of the highest-leverage parts of the architecture: the flight-ready, phase-coherent RF hardware that determines the payload's sensitivity, power, waveform fidelity, and overall mission performance.

This is a deeply hands-on principal role, not a systems-only or simulation-only seat. You'll own RF hardware end-to-end, from architecture and budgets through circuit and PCB design, simulation, lab characterisation, integration, qualification, calibration, and production readiness.

The mission context

The company's radar technology is based on mature phased-array heritage already in full-rate production for terrestrial and airborne applications, now being transitioned to flight-ready space hardware. The RF payload is central to that, and this role directly influences system sensitivity, RF power, efficiency, coherence, and mission performance. You'd be shaping next-generation spaceborne ISR, SAR, and MTI capabilities.

The two profiles

The team is growing, and there's appetite for more than one senior RF engineer. The work splits across two chains:

A transmit focus, centred on high-power amplification (GaN SSPA and drain-switching approaches), peak RF power, PAE, AM/PM fidelity, bandwidth, and the thermal and mechanical complexity that comes with high-power transmit. This is the rarer, more senior profile and the current priority.

A receive focus, centred on sensitivity, dynamic range, channel matching, gain and noise budgets, and calibration stability.

Strong candidates often bring depth in one and working knowledge of the other. If your centre of gravity is high-power transmit, we especially want to hear from you.

What you'll own

Own the RF architecture and performance budgets. Design and verify RF transmit and/or receive chains spanning digital interfaces, RF signal conditioning, amplification, filtering, and calibration. Retire RF, thermal, power, EMI/EMC, and integration risks. Collaborate across antenna, digital, power, and spacecraft disciplines. Transition qualified hardware into repeatable production.

A typical week

Roughly 60% design, simulation, and lab work, 20% integration and support, and 20% in meetings. This is a bench-heavy role by design.

What you'll bring

Expert RF/microwave design experience across transmit and/or receive chains: RF budgets, gain and noise analysis, linearity, dynamic range, phase noise, coherence, high-power amplification, filtering, matching networks, microwave PCB design, RF simulation, lab characterisation, and calibration. Experience developing space-qualified hardware, and ideally exposure to phased arrays, radar payloads, or aerospace RF systems.

The thing that matters most: you've personally architected and delivered complex RF/microwave hardware from requirements through bring-up, characterisation, integration, and qualification, and owned it end-to-end. Engineers who've played across disciplines, tried things, hit problems, and iterated their way through are exactly the profile. Deep but narrow experience, owning one fixed slice of a chain for years without that broader ownership, is not what this role needs.

You're hands-on, rigorous, curious, and high-ownership, with strong first-principles judgement, disciplined lab habits, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to mentor while remaining a strong individual contributor.

Practical requirements

This is an on-site role in the Seattle area. Given the mission set, US citizenship and the ability to meet security clearance requirements are required.

The honest preview

The upside is exceptional ownership of advanced radar hardware, genuinely hard RF problems, rapid design-test cycles, and direct impact on flight hardware and mission performance. The hard parts are aggressive schedules, evolving requirements, tightly coupled multidisciplinary interfaces, space-qualification constraints, and the expectation to solve problems hands-on at the bench. It suits a builder who wants deep ownership, not a specialist looking to run one narrow slice.