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Director of Avionics

  • Location: Los Angeles County, California
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8158
  • Salary: NON 268,000

Director of Avionics

Location: California, Los Angeles

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package + equity

What if your next manufacturing leadership role wasn't about improving an established production line — but building the capability that will help put a new reusable rocket into orbit?

EVONA has partnered with one of the most ambitious launch companies in the world, developing a next-generation reusable medium-to-heavy lift rocket designed to compete at the very top of the commercial launch market.

The company is moving towards first flight, and one of the most critical challenges now is taking sophisticated avionics hardware from development into reliable, scalable, high-rate production.

That's where you come in.

The Mission

As Director of Avionics Manufacturing, you'll own the end-to-end manufacturing and test organisation responsible for the electronics that power, control and connect the launch vehicle.

Flight computers.

PCBs and PCBAs.

Wire harnesses.

Sensors.

Integrated avionics units.

Environmental and functional testing.

This isn't simply about managing an existing factory operation.

You'll help determine how this hardware gets built, how it gets tested, how production scales and how the organisation develops as the vehicle moves towards flight.

You'll lead across manufacturing engineering, production operations and environmental & functional test, working directly with design engineering, systems, vehicle integration, supply chain and quality.

What You'll Own

You'll have responsibility for the entire journey from engineering development through production readiness.

You'll:

  • Own manufacturing and test for the vehicle's avionics hardware
  • Build and scale multidisciplinary manufacturing and operations teams
  • Develop scalable, high-reliability processes for PCBAs, wire harnesses and integrated avionics
  • Build the test infrastructure required to support production
  • Drive the transition from development into higher-rate manufacturing
  • Improve yield, reliability, throughput and cycle time
  • Introduce automation, digital production tools and lean manufacturing practices
  • Ensure hardware is manufacturable, testable and ready for vehicle integration
  • Work across engineering, test, quality, supply chain and vehicle integration to remove production bottlenecks
  • Ultimately ensure the avionics organisation can deliver flight hardware at rate and at the required quality

This is a role with genuine ownership rather than a narrow piece of a much larger manufacturing machine.

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for a senior manufacturing leader who understands avionics manufacturing, not simply avionics design.

You'll ideally have 10+ years within aerospace, space, automotive, electronics or another high-reliability manufacturing environment, including significant leadership responsibility.

Most importantly, you'll understand what it takes to manufacture and test complex electro-mechanical hardware.

Experience we're particularly interested in includes:

PCB/PCBA manufacturing • Wire harness fabrication • Integrated avionics • Electronics manufacturing • ESD • Conformal coating • Potting • Functional testing • Environmental testing • RF/electrical validation • Thermal • Vibration • Automated test • High-rate production

You should also have experience building and developing teams and be comfortable operating in an environment where priorities move quickly and schedules are aggressive.

Even Better If…

You've worked directly with spaceflight avionics or other flight-critical electronics.

Experience with IPC standards, EMC testing, automated test development, GSE, battery manufacturing, Lean/Six Sigma or standing up new production and test lines would all be highly relevant.

Why This One Is Different

There are plenty of senior manufacturing jobs where you're recruited to inherit something that's already been built.

This isn't one of them.

You'll join while the vehicle and its manufacturing capability are still evolving, giving you the opportunity to influence the processes, infrastructure, technology and team that will ultimately manufacture its flight avionics at scale.

The wider ambition goes far beyond a single launch vehicle: the company wants to build a major commercial launch business while pushing the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing, with a long-term vision extending to establishing industrial capability beyond Earth.

Competitive salary on offer, alongside equity and a wider benefits package.

If you've built avionics rather than simply designed them, led manufacturing teams, and want the opportunity to put your fingerprints on a new launch vehicle before its first flight, then this opportunity is for you.

Test Mechanical Technician

  • Location: Toronto
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8157
  • Salary: NON 110,000

Test Mechanical Technician 

Location: London & Toronto, Canada

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package

Build the facility where a new rocket engine will come to life.

We are partnering with an ambitious heavily backed space launch company developing the next generation of launch vehicle technology in Canada.

Backed by significant funding and led by engineers from some of the world’s most successful aerospace and launch organisations, the company is now building the infrastructure required to develop, test and ultimately launch its vehicle.

This isn't a role where you'll spend your day watching hardware from behind a desk. You'll be the person putting your hands on it.

At the heart of the programme is a 725 kN liquid rocket engine — and they are now building the team that will assemble, install, test and ultimately help fire it.

They're looking for hands-on Mechanical Test Technicians to join their propulsion test operation in Canada.

If you've worked around high-pressure systems, cryogenics, fluid systems, turbomachinery, aerospace hardware or complex mechanical equipment, this is an opportunity to take that experience into rocket propulsion.

The Mission

Your job is simple to describe, but difficult to execute:

Make sure the hardware is ready to fire.

You'll work alongside propulsion and test engineers preparing rocket engines and test articles for hot-fire campaigns.

One day you could be mounting an engine onto a test stand. The next you'll be installing instrumentation, connecting high-pressure fluid systems, torquing critical fittings or performing leak and pressure checks before a firing.

When a test is complete, you'll help tear the hardware down, inspect it, identify what survived, what didn't, and prepare everything for the next iteration.

You'll be working directly with hardware operating under extreme pressures, temperatures and loads, where attention to detail genuinely matters.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Assemble and disassemble rocket engines, aerospace components and mechanical subassemblies
  • Mount engines and test articles onto propulsion test stands
  • Install sensors, transducers, thermocouples and instrumentation
  • Build and connect fluid and gas systems
  • Perform pressure testing and leak checks
  • Torque fittings and mechanical interfaces to precise specifications
  • Inspect hardware and verify configurations before testing
  • Support rocket engine hot-fire campaigns
  • Calibrate and check valves, actuators and regulators
  • Safely tear down hardware following tests
  • Inspect components for damage, wear and anomalies
  • Refurbish hardware ready for the next test campaign
  • Help build, modify and maintain the wider test facility and test stands
  • Work directly with test engineers, quality teams and design engineers to solve problems quickly

What We're Looking For

You don't necessarily need to have worked on rockets before.

We're interested in people from aerospace, aviation, oil & gas, defence, automotive, industrial testing, manufacturing or other demanding mechanical environments where safety and precision matter.

You'll ideally bring:

  • 2+ years of hands-on mechanical assembly, maintenance or technician experience
  • Experience working with mechanical or fluid systems
  • Ability to read engineering drawings, schematics and technical instructions
  • Confidence using hand tools, power tools and precision measuring equipment
  • Experience with torque wrenches, calipers and micrometers
  • Knowledge of plumbing, tubing and fittings such as AN/MS/JIC
  • Understanding of mechanical assembly, fasteners and safety wiring
  • Strong attention to detail and a safety-first mindset

Particularly Interesting Experience

If you've worked with any of the following, we'd especially like to hear from you:

High-pressure systems • Cryogenic fluids • Rocket propulsion • Test stands • Turbomachinery • Propellants • Pneumatics • Hydraulics • Pressure vessels • Instrumentation • Valves & regulators • Tube bending • Oxygen systems • Welding/brazing • Rigging & cranes

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to join a rocket programme while the test capability is still being built — not after everything has already been established.

You'll help build the facility, install the hardware, support the test campaigns and watch systems you've physically worked on come alive during hot-fire testing.

And ultimately, the hardware you help assemble and qualify is being developed for one purpose:

Getting a new launch vehicle to orbit.

If you're a hands-on mechanical technician who has spent your career around serious hardware and you've ever wondered what it would be like to apply those skills to rocket engines, I'd love to hear from you.

Test Stand Design Engineer

  • Location: Canada
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8153
  • Salary: NON 180,000

Test Stand Design Engineer – Launch Vehicle Propulsion

Location: London, Canada (Relocation Opportunity)

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package

Build the facility where a new rocket engine will come to life.

We are partnering with an ambitious space launch company developing the next generation of launch vehicle technology in Canada.

Backed by significant funding and led by engineers from some of the world’s most successful aerospace and launch organisations, the company is now building the infrastructure required to develop, test and ultimately launch its vehicle.

And that starts with the test stand.

This isn't a role where you'll inherit a mature facility and simply keep it running.

You'll help create it.

From the high-pressure fluid systems and cryogenic plumbing through to thrust structures, instrumentation and controls, you'll design and commission the infrastructure that will ultimately enable full-scale rocket engine testing.

Your work will sit at the point where propulsion, structures, avionics, flight software, ground software and test operations all come together.

If you want to look back in several years and say “I helped build Canada's first facility capable of doing this” — this is that opportunity.

The experience we really need

Above everything else, we are looking for someone with strong high-pressure systems experience.

You don't necessarily need to have spent your entire career in rockets.

You could come from rocket propulsion, aerospace testing, cryogenic systems or another highly demanding high-pressure engineering environment.

What matters is that you genuinely understand the engineering behind high-pressure fluid systems — sizing and routing, valves, regulators, relief devices, pressurisation, instrumentation, pressure testing, leak checking, commissioning and safe operation.

Experience with cryogenic fluids, LOX/LCH4 or rocket propulsion would make you particularly interesting.

Your mission

You'll take ownership of the test capability from concept through commissioning and ultimately hot-fire operations.

You'll:

  • Design and build test stands capable of firing and validating rocket engines.
  • Engineer high-pressure propellant and pressurant systems, including cryogenic plumbing.
  • Design thrust frames, engine mounts and other load-bearing structures.
  • Develop P&IDs and define fluid, pneumatic and ignition-system sequencing.
  • Select and integrate instrumentation measuring thrust, pressure, temperature, flow and vibration.
  • Work alongside controls and software engineers to develop automated test sequences and abort logic.
  • Lead pressure testing, leak checking, system shakedowns, cold-flow testing and commissioning.
  • Develop hazard analyses, safety interlocks and operating procedures.
  • Support live test campaigns and troubleshoot problems when the hardware doesn't behave as expected.
  • Use test data to continuously improve reliability, performance and turnaround time.

What you'll bring

We're looking for an engineer who enjoys being close to real hardware.

Ideally you'll have 5+ years of experience designing mechanical and fluid systems, with significant exposure to high-pressure applications.

You'll understand P&IDs, pressurised hardware, instrumentation and component selection, and you'll have experience taking engineered systems through build, commissioning, checkout and operation.

You'll also be comfortable using CAD tools such as SolidWorks, Siemens NX or Creo and understand structural loads and the safe operation of high-energy systems.

Most importantly, you should be someone who is comfortable moving between the CAD model, the test stand and the hardware itself.

Why this opportunity is different

Very few engineers get the opportunity to build a major test capability from a blank sheet of paper.

You'll have significant ownership, work alongside experienced launch engineers and directly influence how an entire launch vehicle programme tests and qualifies its propulsion hardware.

This isn't maintaining somebody else's test facility.

It's building Canada's first facility of its kind.

Senior Assembly, Integration, and Test Engineer

  • Location: Denver
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8149
  • Salary: NON 140.00

Are you passionate about shaping the future of humanity's presence in space? Our client, Lunar Outpost, an industry leader in space robotics and planetary vehicles, invites you to join our team! Lunar Outpost is dedicated to creating a permanent presence in space, while also driving positive impacts here on Earth. 

We are currently seeking a Senior Assembly, Integration, and Test Engineer to contribute to our mission in a dynamic startup environment. As a Senior Assembly, Integration, and Test Engineer for the Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services (LTVS) program, you will be responsible for supporting the Assembly, Integration, and Test (AI&T) team in planning and executing test and qualification campaigns, facilitating development, execution, and reporting of Integrated Product Teams (IPT) testing, and developing and operating various vehicle testbed and prototype platforms. 

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: 

  • Create, develop, refine, and map test requirements to test plans and procedures and their appropriate test reports
  • Plan and execute component, subassembly, and subsystem qualification campaigns 
  • Lead efforts to design, build, and test dedicated vehicle test platforms and prototypes 
  • Lead development of qualification and test campaign schedules in accordance with the AI&T Plan and execute campaigns on schedule to drive program progress 
  • Write test procedures and processes to support qualification at the component, subsystem, and vehicle level 
  • Provide expert inputs to program schedules and budgets as well as regular status of campaign execution 

Required Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline 
  • 4–8 years of experience in developing and executing test and qualification campaigns for NASA Class A and/or human-rated vehicles 
  • Experience as a systems engineer or acting in a systems engineering role in support of a cislunar or lunar spaceflight mission
  • Demonstrated experience leading and executing engineering test efforts to support requirement verification and validation 
  • Familiarity with NASA standards for AI&T that cover testing, qualification, workmanship, etc. (i.e. SMC-S-016, NASA-STD-8739) 
  • Clear understanding of NASA verification and validation processes 
  • Strong test documentation writing skills, such as test plans, procedures, reports, etc. 
  • Knowledge of systems engineering processes and best practices 
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel and Project 
  • Self-motivated, focused, and driven to meet critical deadlines 
  • Excellent organization and time management skills 
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills 
  • U.S. Person  

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Ability to execute cross-disciplinary engineering from a systems perspective, in areas such as Mechanical, Electrical, Software, etc. 
  • Familiarity with executing human hazard assessments to support NASA Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs) 
  • Experience testing and/or qualifying vehicle mobility systems, such as suspensions, drivetrains, wheels/tires, etc. 
  • Experience with designing and building unique test support equipment, such as offload rigs, mechanism actuators, structure mockups, etc. 
  • Familiarity with Python scripting 
  • Familiarity with Atlassian suite (JIRA/Confluence), JAMA for requirement generation and tracking 

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. 

RF Engineer

  • Location: Herndon, Virginia
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8142
  • Salary: NON 172,000

RF Engineer (Satellite Navigation Payloads & Receivers)

Location: Northern Virginia (Washington DC metro), on-site
Type: Permanent, full time
Base salary: $150,000 – $175,000 plus equity (stock options), annual bonus potential and full benefits
Eligibility: US Citizen or Green Card holder

The Company

A venture-backed space company building the first fully commercial satellite navigation service, a complete alternative to legacy GPS designed from a clean sheet.

Positioning underpins almost everything in modern life, yet the incumbent system is slow to fix, unencrypted, and trivially jammed or spoofed. That is not good enough for the applications coming next: autonomous vehicles, drone logistics, urban air mobility, augmented reality, and safety-critical government timing. This business exists to fix it, delivering higher accuracy, dramatically faster time to first fix, and genuine anti-jam and anti-spoof protection.

The architecture spans a constellation of small satellites, a global ground station network, and next generation receiver technology. The GNSS hardware, software and services market sits at roughly $260 billion a year, and the company intends to take a serious share of it.

The Role

This is an RF-led hardware seat. You will own the radio chain across the full PNT stack, from the transmit payload on orbit through to the ground station receive path and the next generation user receiver. Front ends, RFICs, antennas, filtering, link budgets, and the board-level electrical design that carries all of it.

The company wants someone whose instinct is RF but who is entirely comfortable owning the wider electrical design rather than throwing it over a fence. You will work directly alongside the Chief Engineer and the wider engineering group, turning proprietary satellite and RF technology into hardware that flies and hardware that ships.

This is an early engineering hire. The company is explicit that the path to manager and director level is open and short for the right person.

What you will be doing

  • Designing and developing RF front ends and signal chains for space payloads, ground stations and receiver hardware
  • Selecting and integrating RFICs, LNAs, PAs, mixers, synthesisers, filtering and antennas, then proving the performance in the lab
  • Owning RF performance analysis: link budgets, noise figure, gain and phase, spurious and harmonics, EVM, sensitivity and interference rejection
  • Designing analogue, RF and digital PCBs, including layout partitioning, grounding, shielding and controlled-impedance routing for high frequency work
  • Managing the boundary between the RF front end and the digital back end, including high-speed ADC and DAC interfacing and clocking
  • Defining the test approach and validating it through simulation, bench characterisation, hardware in the loop and field demonstration
  • Working with software defined radios and RF test equipment (VNAs, spectrum and signal analysers, signal generators) day to day
  • Supporting productisation as technology moves from prototype to a manufacturable product, including design for test and design for manufacture
  • Supporting the operations team on system commissioning, operations automation, and anomaly investigation and resolution
  • Working with engineering and commercial teams to pull out and pin down requirements

What you will need

  • BS in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline (MS preferred)
  • 3 to 5 years designing RF hardware for GNSS, space, satcom or wireless communications
  • Demonstrable RF front end design experience, taking a signal chain from architecture through schematic, board and bring-up to measured performance
  • Solid analogue and digital PCB design capability alongside the RF work
  • Working understanding of RFICs, FPGAs, SoCs and antenna behaviour
  • Hands-on experience with software defined radios and RF test and measurement
  • Genuine strength in problem solving and the underlying maths and physics
  • Familiarity with newspace satellite and payload technology
  • Self-directed, comfortable operating without close supervision
  • Clear, confident written and verbal communication, and organised working habits
  • US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status
  • Willingness to travel up to 10%

Nice to have

  • GNSS-specific RF experience, whether payload transmit chains or receiver front ends
  • Experience with RF simulation and EM tools
  • Exposure to modern wireless standards (4G, 5G, WiFi, SATCOM, IoT)
  • Familiarity with mainstream SoC and FPGA toolchains and development environments
  • Space environment design experience: radiation, thermal vacuum, qualification and screening
  • Previous startup experience
  • Active US security clearance

The kind of person who does well here

Someone who genuinely enjoys the startup setting rather than tolerating it. Positive, straightforward communicator with a sense of humour. Thinks strategically but executes tactically. Comfortable working across every function in the business, not just engineering. Happy to roll sleeves up and get stuck into whatever the week demands.

Prinicipal Satellite Systems Engineer

  • Location: Adams County, Colorado
  • Remote: Hybrid
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8141
  • Salary: NON 160,000

Principal Satellite Systems Engineer

 

A leading Earth-observation and space technology company is hiring a Principal Satellite Systems Engineer to support the development and delivery of next-generation satellite systems.

 

This role will take technical ownership of satellite bus procurement and supplier oversight, working with external spacecraft vendors from initial requirements and design reviews through integration, environmental testing, launch, and on-orbit operations.

 

The Role

  • Lead technical interactions with satellite bus suppliers and manage design or performance issues.
  • Develop statements of work, bus specifications, system requirements, and verification criteria.
  • Review spacecraft designs, ICDs, analysis packages, integration plans, and test reports.
  • Evaluate vendor responses to RFIs and RFPs.
  • Confirm that supplier hardware and software meet mission, payload, and environmental requirements.
  • Support payload-to-bus integration across power, data, thermal, structural, RF, timing, and software interfaces.
  • Oversee qualification for LEO environments, including radiation, thermal, structural, and EMI/EMC considerations.

 

What We’re Looking For

  • Approximately 5–12 years of aerospace or satellite systems engineering experience.
  • End-to-end spacecraft programme experience, from architecture through assembly, integration, testing, and on-orbit operations.
  • Experience owning the design, analysis, qualification, or verification of a satellite bus or complete spacecraft.
  • Strong requirements development, decomposition, traceability, and verification experience.
  • Proven subcontractor or spacecraft-vendor oversight experience.
  • Strong knowledge of LEO environments and their impact on spacecraft performance.
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, aerospace, physics, or a related technical field.

 

Particularly Relevant Experience

  • Earth-observation satellite programmes
  • Satellite bus lead or spacecraft lead systems engineering
  • RF communications, radios, transmitters, or transceivers
  • Mission data recorders and space-qualified memory
  • Precision timing systems
  • Encryption hardware or IP cores
  • Satellite flight-software architecture
  • Space-based edge computing or AI processing
  • Optical crosslink terminals
  • Environmental qualification and test oversight

 

This is a broad, highly visible role suited to an experienced systems engineer who can combine deep spacecraft knowledge with strong supplier management and technical decision-making.

The position includes a competitive base salary, annual incentive, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work on advanced Earth-observation missions.

Satellite & Ground Systems Engineer

  • Location: Adams County, Colorado
  • Remote: Hybrid
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8140
  • Salary: NON 160,000

Satellite & Ground Systems Engineer

 

A rapidly growing space and geospatial technology organization is hiring an experienced Satellite & Ground Systems Engineer to support the development and operation of next-generation satellite systems, ground infrastructure, and mission operations capabilities.

 

This is a highly technical systems engineering position-not a documentation-focused role. You will help translate complex mission objectives into integrated and executable system designs spanning spacecraft, payloads, communications, software, ground systems, and operational environments.

 

You will work across the full systems engineering lifecycle, from early mission architecture and requirements development through integration, verification, deployment, and sustained operations.

 

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Develop mission concepts, Concepts of Operations, operational scenarios, mission threads, and use cases.
  • Translate stakeholder and customer objectives into clear system requirements and architectures.
  • Elicit, decompose, allocate, manage, and maintain requirements across complex multidisciplinary systems.
  • Develop high-level architectures spanning spacecraft, payloads, communications, ground infrastructure, software, and mission operations.
  • Maintain traceability between stakeholder needs, requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification plans, and test results.
  • Perform functional analysis, system decomposition, interface definition, and technical trade studies.
  • Partner with hardware, software, spacecraft, payload, ground, communications, and operations teams.
  • Support system integration, verification, validation, deployment, and operational sustainment.
  • Contribute to formal engineering reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and SVR.
  • Drive technical decisions and ensure consistency across multiple concurrent development programs.

 

What We’re Looking For

  • Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline.
  • At least six years of systems engineering experience within aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, or another complex multidisciplinary environment.
  • Experience developing system architecture from stakeholder needs through implementation and verification.
  • Strong experience developing ConOps, mission scenarios, use cases, and operational threads.
  • Experience managing system requirements, allocation, decomposition, and traceability.
  • Understanding of the complete systems engineering V-model and system development lifecycle.
  • Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering and SysML.
  • Experience working across hardware, software, interfaces, and operational domains.
  • Strong technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Ability to balance multiple complex programs within a fast-paced engineering environment.

 

Particularly Valuable Experience

  • Ten or more years supporting spacecraft, satellite constellations, remote sensing systems, ground systems, or mission operations.
  • Leadership of systems engineering activities across end-to-end space systems.
  • Satellite communications, RF links, or optical inter-satellite crosslinks.
  • Cameo Systems Modeler, MagicDraw, Enterprise Architect, or similar MBSE tools.
  • STK or other tools within the Ansys engineering suite.
  • DOORS Next, Jama Connect, Polarion, or comparable requirements management platforms.
  • Development of interface definitions and Interface Control Documents.
  • Digital engineering and model-centric development environments.
  • Verification planning, verification matrices, test planning, and system validation.
  • ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, INCOSE, or NASA systems engineering practices.
  • Git, Jira, Confluence, configuration management, and engineering change processes.

 

The successful candidate will combine architectural thinking with practical engineering execution. You should be comfortable owning complex technical problems, building alignment between engineering disciplines, and helping development teams move quickly without sacrificing traceability or technical rigor.

 

This is an opportunity to play a central role in shaping resilient satellite and ground systems designed for demanding commercial and national security missions.

 

Candidates must be U.S. citizens due to the nature of the programs and applicable U.S. export-control requirements.

Lead Systems Engineer

  • Location: Lanham, Maryland
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8136
  • Salary: NON 150,000

Lead Systems Engineer 

Location: Lanham, Maryland (On-site)

I'm working with an innovative space technology company that's developing next-generation satellite communications systems and is looking for an experienced Lead Systems Engineer to join its growing engineering team.

This is an opportunity to lead complex aerospace programs from concept through verification, working across multidisciplinary engineering teams on cutting-edge space technology.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead systems engineering activities across the full development lifecycle.
  • Own requirements, architecture, verification & validation, and technical baselines.
  • Develop and manage technical budgets (mass, power, link, schedule).
  • Drive new mission concepts and system architectures.
  • Collaborate across RF, software, electrical and mechanical engineering teams.
  • Support proposals, technical planning and customer engagements.
  • Lead technical reviews including SRR, PDR and CDR.
  • Mentor junior engineers and help shape systems engineering best practices.

What We're Looking For

  • 7+ years of Systems Engineering experience.
  • Previous experience leading systems engineering on complex aerospace, satellite or defence programmes.
  • Strong understanding of systems engineering lifecycle processes.
  • Experience with requirements management tools (DOORS, Jama or similar).
  • Experience with MBSE (Cameo), MATLAB/Simulink or STK is advantageous.
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Experience within space, satellite communications or defence is highly desirable.

If you're looking to work on technology that's redefining global connectivity, I'd love to hear from you.

Please send me a direct message or apply with your CV for a confidential discussion.

Head of AIT

  • Location: Los Angeles County, California
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8135
  • Salary: NON 240,000

Location: Los Angeles, California

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package

Environment: Smallsat Design and Manufacturing

Build the Team. Build the Capability. Build the Future.

Our Client is entering an exciting new phase of growth in the United States, establishing a major new 100,000+ sq. ft. satellite manufacturing facility in Los Angeles.

This facility will provide the capability to assemble, integrate and test increasingly sophisticated spacecraft and will become a critical part of Our Client's global manufacturing operations.

But before satellites can roll through the facility, someone needs to help build the capability behind them.

We are looking for an experienced Head of Assembly, Integration & Test (AI&T) to do exactly that.

This is not an opportunity to inherit an established department.

You will build it.

The Opportunity

As Head of AI&T, you will take responsibility for establishing and leading the Assembly, Integration & Test capability within the new Los Angeles operation.

You'll help determine how spacecraft move through the facility, how they are assembled and integrated, what equipment and infrastructure are required, how cleanroom operations should function and how spacecraft are ultimately tested and prepared for delivery.

You'll also build the team around you.

Working closely with engineering, manufacturing, quality, programme and operations teams, you will create an AI&T organisation capable of supporting the company's ambitious US growth plans.

What You'll Build & Lead

You will:

  • Establish the US AI&T organisation from the ground up, including processes, procedures, workflows and operating standards.
  • Recruit, develop and lead a high-performing team of AI&T engineers and technicians.
  • Define spacecraft assembly, integration and test processes from subsystem through full spacecraft level.
  • Establish cleanroom workflows, tooling, equipment and infrastructure requirements.
  • Lead spacecraft integration activities across mechanical, electrical, avionics, payload and subsystem interfaces.
  • Oversee functional testing and environmental qualification campaigns.
  • Support testing including TVAC, vibration, shock and EMI/EMC.
  • Establish manufacturing and test readiness processes and reviews.
  • Ensure AI&T activities meet programme requirements for quality, schedule, cost and safety.
  • Develop KPIs and operational metrics to measure performance, quality and throughput.
  • Work closely with engineering and programme leadership to identify and mitigate integration and test risks.
  • Coordinate with external suppliers and specialist test partners where required.
  • Drive continuous improvement as spacecraft volumes and complexity increase.
  • Ensure lessons learned from integration and test campaigns are fed back into engineering and manufacturing.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for someone who has spent their career close to the hardware.

You'll understand what it takes to move a spacecraft from individual subsystems through assembly, integration, environmental testing and ultimately flight readiness.

Ideally, you'll bring:

  • 8+ years' experience within spacecraft Assembly, Integration & Test or a closely related discipline.
  • Significant experience working within satellite or spacecraft manufacturing.
  • Leadership experience managing AI&T engineers and/or technicians.
  • Experience building, scaling or significantly improving an AI&T capability.
  • Strong understanding of spacecraft assembly and integration processes.
  • Hands-on knowledge of environmental testing, including thermal vacuum and vibration testing.
  • Experience working within cleanroom environments.
  • Understanding of high-reliability aerospace manufacturing and quality requirements.
  • Experience working across engineering, manufacturing, quality and programme organisations.
  • Strong programme, schedule, resource and risk-management capabilities.
  • Degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline.

Why This Opportunity Is Different

Many senior AI&T positions involve taking responsibility for an organisation, facility and processes that have existed for decades.

This one doesn't.

You'll join at the point where the decisions being made today will determine how spacecraft are assembled and tested in Los Angeles for years to come.

You'll influence the facility.

You'll select and develop the team.

You'll shape the processes.

You'll establish the culture.

And you'll ultimately see spacecraft move through an AI&T capability you helped create from the ground up.

For someone who has spent years building and testing spacecraft and has always thought, “I know how I'd build this if I had the opportunity” — this could be that opportunity.

Task and Motion Planning Engineer

  • Location: Denver, Colorado
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8133
  • Salary: NON 130,000

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, experienced Task and Motion Planning Engineer  

As a Task and Motion Planning Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the development of cutting-edge decision making and planning systems for our lunar rovers and orbital assets. Working at the intersection of autonomy, robotics, and space exploration, you will design, develop, and implement sophisticated software solutions that enable coordination of cross-domain autonomous systems. Your work will not only contribute to groundbreaking missions but also to technologies that have the potential to benefit humanity on Earth. Collaborating with cross-disciplinary engineering teams, you will help drive the integration of these systems into a unified, state-of-the-art autonomy stack, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in space exploration.

 

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

  • Lead the design and development of decentralized decision-making algorithms for lunar rovers and orbital assets
  • Develop and implement robust software capable of enabling autonomous operations in challenging lunar environments
  • Collaborate with systems, mechanical, electrical, and thermal engineering teams to integrate and optimize autonomy software with asset hardware
  • Utilize simulation techniques to improve autonomous system performance and reliability under various conditions in space
  • Conduct field tests and simulations to validate and refine algorithms and software systems
  • Ensure software systems adhere to industry standards for safety, reliability, and performance in space exploration contexts
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation, including ICDs and verification plans
  • Participate in design reviews, trade studies, and technical risk assessments
  • Stay at the forefront of autonomy and robotics technology, incorporating the latest advancements into our projects

 

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Robotics Engineering, or related field
  • At least 3 years of relevant professional experience in developing autonomy software for autonomous systems, with a proven track record in navigation, perception, or belief space planning. Applicants should have expertise in at least one of the following areas:
    • Methods for solving Markov decision processes (e.g., value iterate, Monte Carlo tree search, reinforcement learning)
    • Coordinated planning and control of multi-agent systems
    • Motion planning methods (e.g., A*, FMM, RRT)
    • Belief space planning (e.g., BRM, RRBT)
    • Tasking and scheduling
    • Orbital planning and control algorithms
  • Expertise in programming languages such as C++, Python, and familiarity with ROS (Robot Operating System) 
  • Comfortable working in research-oriented, agile, and interdisciplinary teams
  • Track record of innovation in networking, robotics, or space systems, as demonstrated by patents, publications, or significant project achievements
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts and collaborate across various engineering disciplines
  • U.S. Citizen

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • M.S. or Ph.D. in a field relevant to autonomy or robotics directly applicable to autonomous navigation and guidance
  • Experience with autonomous systems in space, or other extreme, unstructured, environments.
  • Familiarity with space operating systems (e.g., VxWorks) and software (e.g., cFS)
  • Familiarity with containers (e.g., Docker) and virtualization software (e.g., VirtualBox)
  • Experience with the end-to-end development and deployment of network software systems in space exploration missions

 

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.