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Cyber Security Administrator

  • Location: Denver, Colorado
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8273
  • Salary: NON 150,000

Location: Denver, Colorado

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package 

Environment: Smallsat Design and Manufacturing

EVONA is working with a fast-growing space technology company that is building the next generation of satellite systems and expanding its operations across the United States.

As the business scales its US footprint, its technology infrastructure needs to scale with it.

That’s where you come in.

We’re looking for a Cyber Security Administrator to take ownership of the secure IT and cyber environment supporting the company’s growing Denver operation.

This isn’t a role where you’ll simply inherit a mature corporate environment and keep the lights on.

You’ll be hands-on across infrastructure, cybersecurity, government cloud platforms and compliance, helping build and strengthen the systems that allow a rapidly growing space company to operate securely within highly regulated US government and aerospace environments.

The opportunity

You’ll become one of the key people responsible for the security and reliability of the US technology environment.

Your world will span Microsoft GCC High, Azure Government and AWS GovCloud, alongside local infrastructure, networks, endpoints, identity and access management.

One day you might be strengthening Conditional Access and privileged access controls. The next, you could be investigating suspicious activity, hardening infrastructure, preparing evidence for a compliance audit or improving the security architecture supporting the company’s continued US expansion.

You’ll have genuine ownership and the opportunity to influence how the environment develops rather than simply following processes designed somewhere else.

What you’ll be responsible for

You’ll take ownership across:

  • Microsoft GCC High, including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Intune and Entra ID
  • Azure Government infrastructure, networking, storage, monitoring and security
  • AWS GovCloud, including IAM, networking, logging and security controls
  • Windows Server and Microsoft 365 environments
  • Firewalls, VPNs, switches, routers, wireless networks and connectivity
  • Identity and access management, MFA, RBAC and privileged access
  • Endpoint security, EDR, encryption, patching and vulnerability management
  • Security monitoring, incident investigation, containment and remediation
  • System hardening and security configuration
  • Backup, disaster recovery and business continuity
  • Employee onboarding, offboarding, hardware and asset management
  • Infrastructure and security documentation
  • Audit evidence, access reviews, inventories, logs and compliance records

You’ll also help evaluate encryption technologies and protocols including AES, RSA, ECC and TLS/SSL, ensuring data-at-rest and data-in-transit is appropriately protected and aligned with FIPS 140-2/140-3 requirements.

What we’re looking for

You’ll probably have 5+ years of experience across systems administration, infrastructure, IT operations or cybersecurity, ideally within an aerospace, defence, government or similarly regulated environment.

You should be comfortable getting hands-on rather than operating purely at policy level.

Experience across several of the following would be particularly valuable:

Microsoft GCC High | Azure Government | AWS GovCloud | Entra ID | Active Directory | Intune | Microsoft Defender | Sentinel | EDR | IAM | Windows Server | Networking | Firewalls | VPNs | Vulnerability Management

Exposure to CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, ITAR, DFARS or comparable regulated environments would also be highly advantageous.

Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who can solve problems, take ownership and operate effectively in a company moving quickly.

Why apply?

Because this is an opportunity to join during the build, not after everything has already been built.

You’ll be working inside a fast-growing space company developing advanced satellite technology for commercial, scientific and government missions.

You’ll have the autonomy to improve systems, strengthen security controls and influence how the US technology environment evolves as the organisation continues to scale.

And because the company operates internationally, you’ll also collaborate with experienced engineering and technology teams across its global operations, with opportunities for occasional international travel.

What's on offer?

$120,000–$150,000 base salary, depending on experience

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Team performance-based bonus

Professional development and progression opportunities

International collaboration and occasional travel

If you’re a Cyber Security Administrator who enjoys building, improving and securing complex environments — and you’d like to apply that experience to technology that ultimately operates in space — we’d like to hear from you.

Senior IT Systems Administrator

  • Location: Denver, Colorado
  • Remote: Hybrid
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8272
  • Salary: NON 130,000

Location: Denver, Colorado

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package 

Environment: Smallsat Design and Manufacturing

The opportunity

Imagine arriving at work knowing the systems you're responsible for aren't supporting another ordinary corporate office.

They're supporting a team building spacecraft.

EVONA is partnering with a fast-growing international space technology company that is expanding its US operations in Denver and building the infrastructure, engineering capability and teams required to support its next phase of growth.

At the centre of that expansion sits IT.

As Senior IT Systems Administrator, you'll become the primary IT resource for the US operation — responsible for keeping its people connected, its infrastructure reliable, its cloud environments secure and its systems compliant with the demanding requirements of the US government and defence ecosystem.

This isn't a role where you'll spend your day forwarding tickets to somebody else.

You'll own things.

What will you actually be responsible for?

Your environment will span everything from the laptop sitting on an engineer's desk to government-regulated cloud infrastructure.

You'll support employees when technology gets in their way, troubleshoot hardware and software issues and manage the workstations, servers, networks and devices that keep the Denver operation running.

But that's only the beginning.

You'll administer Microsoft GCC High across Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Intune and Entra ID, alongside Azure Government infrastructure and AWS GovCloud environments.

Identity and access will sit firmly within your world.

You'll manage onboarding and offboarding, user provisioning, MFA, role-based access, privileged accounts and permissions across both local and cloud environments.

You'll also have significant responsibility for cybersecurity.

That means monitoring endpoints and infrastructure, investigating suspicious activity, responding to security incidents, managing vulnerabilities, maintaining patching and system-hardening programmes and continuously improving the controls protecting the organisation.

When something doesn't look right, you'll investigate it.

When something could be more secure, you'll improve it.

And when the organisation grows, you'll help make sure the technology and security architecture can grow with it.

Security isn't an afterthought here

The company operates within an environment where government and defence customers expect considerably more than a password policy and antivirus software.

You'll help maintain and strengthen compliance with frameworks and requirements such as:

CMMC | NIST 800-171 | FedRAMP | ITAR | DFARS

You'll maintain security documentation, inventories, audit evidence, access reviews, logs and control records and help ensure the organisation is ready when customers or auditors need evidence that controls are actually being followed.

You'll also evaluate encryption technologies and protocols including AES, RSA, ECC and TLS/SSL, considering how they're applied to data at rest and in transit.

That includes disk encryption, certificate handling and key management in environments aligned with FIPS 140-2/140-3 requirements.

You'll support backups, restoration testing, disaster recovery and business continuity exercises too.

Because in this environment, resilience matters just as much as security.

You'll have a lot of technology to play with

Depending on the environment, you'll be working across technologies including:

  • Microsoft GCC High
  • Azure Government
  • AWS GovCloud
  • Microsoft Entra ID / Active Directory
  • Microsoft Intune
  • Microsoft Defender
  • Microsoft Sentinel / Security Center
  • Windows Server
  • EDR and endpoint security
  • Firewalls, VPNs and networking
  • Identity and privileged access management
  • Vulnerability and patch management
  • Monitoring and logging platforms
  • Encryption and key management

You'll also manage and troubleshoot the physical infrastructure behind the operation — switches, routers, storage, wireless networks, firewalls, internet connectivity and office IT equipment.

So if you're someone who enjoys being genuinely hands-on rather than specialising in one tiny corner of an enterprise IT department, you'll have plenty to get involved with.

Who are we looking for?

We're looking for someone with at least five years of experience across systems administration, infrastructure engineering, IT operations, cybersecurity or a closely related field.

You'll ideally have a degree in IT, Computer Science or Cybersecurity, although equivalent practical experience is equally interesting.

You'll need strong experience within Windows-based enterprise environments and Microsoft 365.

Experience with Microsoft GCC High, Azure Government and AWS GovCloud would be particularly valuable because these environments will form an important part of your responsibility.

You should also be comfortable with:

Active Directory and Entra ID, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP; TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, VPNs and firewalls; endpoint security and EDR; device management and encryption; vulnerability remediation; system monitoring and logging; incident investigation and response.

Experience supporting organisations working within CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, ITAR, DFARS or similar regulated environments would be highly advantageous.

But technical knowledge alone isn't enough.

You'll be the person people turn to when something isn't working.

So we're looking for someone who can troubleshoot calmly, communicate clearly, document properly and explain technical problems to people who don't necessarily speak IT.

Why apply?

Because this is an opportunity to join while the US operation is still being built.

Rather than inheriting an enormous corporate environment where everything was designed ten years ago and changing anything requires six committees, you'll have the opportunity to influence how infrastructure, security and IT operations develop as the organisation grows.

You'll work alongside engineers and technical teams developing next-generation space technology, while collaborating with colleagues across the company's international offices.

You'll have autonomy, direct access to leadership and the opportunity to recommend better technology, architecture, processes and security controls when you see an opportunity to improve something.

There will also be opportunities for occasional international travel and collaboration with the company's European teams.

What’s on offer?

Salary: $100,000 – $130,000 USD

The final salary will depend on experience and technical background.

You'll also receive:

  • Health insurance coverage
  • Matching 401(k) plan
  • Generous team performance-based bonus
  • Autonomy and direct access to leadership
  • Travel and conference opportunities
  • International collaboration
  • Ongoing learning and career development

One final thought

Plenty of companies need someone to administer Microsoft 365, manage their network and keep their cloud infrastructure running.

Far fewer can offer you the opportunity to do it while helping build the US technology infrastructure behind an international spacecraft company.

If you like the idea of owning an environment rather than simply maintaining one — and you want your next IT challenge to involve space, government technology and serious cybersecurity — we'd love to hear from you.

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.

Contract Project Manager

  • Location: Denver, Colorado
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Contract
  • Job #8256

Contract Project Manager — Manufacturing Facility Relocation

United States (Remote)

Open hourly rate

6-month contract – 40 hours per week

Fully remote (US-based)

 

A space & defense company is hiring a Project Manager to run two manufacturing facility relocations through a 6-month engagement. One site handles live products, the other inert, in separate cities, with both due up by spring ahead of live work starting in June.

 

The dates are fixed and the team is in place. What’s needed is a project manager who has set Jira up for a non-software team before, can run it live in meetings from day one, and can carry both moves to handover on a fixed clock.

 

What you’ll be doing

  • Act as the central point of coordination across engineering, logistics, supply chain, quality and around 10 stakeholders
  • Build the Jira workspace from scratch: structure, boards, workflows and reports configured in manufacturing language, not software terms
  • Run Jira live in planning and status meetings so the plan, risks and dependencies are updated in the room, not afterwards
  • Set up reporting and scenario planning against two fixed site-ready dates
  • Stand up Confluence, or an equivalent, as the single repository for move documentation and decisions
  • Coach the program lead on Jira as the work happens, so the system outlives your engagement
  • Bring one consistent cadence to a team that mixes old-school and new-space working rhythms
  • Track actions, risks and hand-offs across two sites and two schedules

 

What you’ll need

  • Project or program management experience on manufacturing, facility or hardware programs
  • Hands-on Jira administration: you have configured projects, workflows, fields and dashboards yourself
  • Experience introducing Jira, or a similar tool, to a team that has never used it and getting it adopted
  • Ability to run a tool live in front of a room while facilitating the discussion
  • Confidence coordinating stakeholders who are strong technically and less strong at communicating
  • Comfort building structure quickly inside a scope that is still expanding
  • Clear written and verbal communication for a mixed engineering and operations audience
  • Available to start around September 21 and work full-time for at least the first three months
  • US-based and eligible to work on ITAR-controlled programs

 

Nice to have

  • Aerospace, space or defense manufacturing background
  • Confluence administration alongside Jira
  • Scrum Master or agile facilitation experience adapted for non-software teams
  • Facility relocation or production line move experience
  • Prior contract or independent consulting work, you land and add value fast

 

Interested –  Click apply with an updated copy of your resume. I’ll come back to you within 48 hours. If you don’t hear back within 48 hours, please assume you haven’t been successful on this occasion.

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. 

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.

Director of Business Development

  • Location: Denver, Colorado
  • Remote: Hybrid
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8090
  • Salary: NON 200,000

A fast-growing software company is looking for its first dedicated Director of Business Development to build and scale a proactive commercial function.

The business has established itself as a trusted provider of mission-critical software used to control, monitor and automate complex hardware systems. With strong year-on-year growth, exceptional customer retention and a highly technical product team, the company is now investing in outbound business development to accelerate its next phase of growth.

This is a rare opportunity to join a founder-led organisation at an inflection point, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping commercial strategy, opening new markets and building long-term customer relationships. Initially an individual contributor role, there is clear scope to influence future team growth as the business scales.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute an outbound business development strategy to generate new commercial opportunities.
  • Build relationships with senior technical and commercial stakeholders across target industries.
  • Identify and qualify opportunities within both existing and emerging markets.
  • Lead discovery conversations to understand customer challenges and position software solutions around business outcomes.
  • Work closely with founders, product and marketing teams to refine messaging and market positioning.
  • Represent the business at industry conferences, networking events and customer meetings.
  • Develop strategic partnerships that create new routes to market.
  • Capture customer and market feedback to influence product direction and commercial strategy.
  • Manage opportunities through the early stages of the sales cycle before collaborating with technical teams on solution development.
  • Help establish scalable business development processes that support future company growth.

 

Key Requirements

  • Proven success generating new business within a B2B software or SaaS environment.
  • Experience selling complex or technical software solutions to engineering, operations or technology-focused organisations.
  • Comfortable discussing modern software concepts such as APIs, containers, microservices and cloud-native technologies with technical stakeholders.
  • Strong consultative selling skills with the ability to uncover customer pain points rather than rely on feature-led demonstrations.
  • Highly proactive, self-motivated and comfortable building opportunities from scratch.
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with the confidence to engage senior decision-makers.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to thrive in an early-stage, high-growth business.
  • Willingness to travel for customer meetings, conferences and industry events.
  • Experience within aerospace, robotics, defence technology, autonomous systems, industrial automation or adjacent technical industries would be advantageous, but is not essential.

This is an opportunity to become the first commercial business development hire within an ambitious software company that is redefining how organisations operate and manage complex hardware systems. You'll work directly alongside the founders, influence go-to-market strategy, and play a key role in expanding into new industries while helping shape the future commercial function. If you're passionate about opening doors, building markets and selling innovative software into technical environments, this role offers genuine ownership and long-term career progression.

Software Test Lead

  • Location: Denver, Colorado
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8066
  • Salary: NON 145,000

We're partnered with a pioneering space robotics company developing next-generation lunar vehicles and are looking for a Software Test Lead to build and lead the software verification strategy behind mission-critical flight systems.

This is an opportunity to define testing from the ground up, working across embedded software, robotics, and autonomous systems that will operate on the Moon.

What You'll Do

  • Lead the software test strategy for embedded, flight and ground systems.
  • Develop verification plans, test procedures and validation activities.
  • Build and improve HIL, simulation and automated test environments.
  • Work closely with software, systems and hardware engineers to ensure full requirements coverage.
  • Support fault injection, resilience testing and software certification.
  • Mentor engineers and help grow the software test function.

What We're Looking For

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering or similar.
  • 5+ years of software test experience, including leadership or senior-level responsibility.
  • Experience testing embedded or safety-critical software.
  • Knowledge of HIL, automation frameworks and scripting.
  • Strong understanding of verification, validation and the software development lifecycle.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • U.S. Person.

Nice to Have

  • Robotics, autonomous systems or spacecraft experience.
  • cFS, VxWorks, CI/CD or cloud testing experience.
  • Experience with spaceflight software development and certification.

Why Apply?

This is a chance to shape the software quality strategy for one of the most exciting lunar programmes in development today, helping deliver autonomous systems that will support the next generation of human exploration.