Contract Business Development Consultant — Golden Dome
United States (Remote)
Open hourly rate
6-month contract – 20 hours per week +
Fully remote (US-based)
A space & defense company is hiring a Business Development Consultant to open the Golden Dome market through a 6-month engagement.
The infrastructure is built, the program is moving. What’s needed is a BD lead who has sold into missile defense or hypersonic test programs before, can build a pipeline without a long runway, and can carry it from first meeting to award on a fixed clock.
What you’ll be doing
Own the Golden Dome market as the sole business development consultant on the account.
Map the stakeholders, program offices, primes and budget lines behind Golden Dome hypersonic testing and test-vehicle launch, and turn that into a named target list within the first month.
Secure first meetings with program managers, contracting officers and prime-contractor capture leads, and qualify each opportunity against what the company can deliver on its current timeline.
Shape capture plans for test campaigns at the company’s site: vacuum, high-G, materials and wind-tunnel testing, and test-vehicle launch.
Draft responses to RFIs, BAAs and OTA proposals alongside the CEO and the engineering team, with the technical claims kept accurate.
Run a weekly pipeline review with the CEO: what moved, what stalled, what needs an engineering answer, what needs a decision.
Convert an initial test campaign into a multi-year test-services program of record.
What you’ll need
Business development or capture experience selling into the DoD, with awards you can name.
A live network across hypersonic test and missile-defense stakeholders: OSD, MDA, the Space Force, test ranges and the primes.
A working knowledge of DoD contracting mechanisms: BAAs, OTAs, SBIR/STTR, IDIQs, sole-source and cost-plus versus firm-fixed-price.
Experience selling test services, flight-test capacity or novel test infrastructure rather than standard components.
A record of opening a market from a standing start — first meeting to first award — rather than managing an inherited book.
Comfort representing engineering claims accurately to a technical customer without overstating them.
Judgement to qualify out early: this is a 20-hour-per-week engagement and the pipeline has to be real.
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.
Contract Power Electronics Design Engineer — Spacecraft Payload Power
Open hourly rate
3-month contract – 30 hours per week
Fully remote (US-based)
A space & defense company is hiring a Contract Power Electronics Design Engineer to own a payload power design through a focused three-month push. Flight hardware for real missions, built to high-reliability standards, with the analysis rigour that goes with it.
The architecture is set, the program is moving. What’s needed is a design owner who has built spacecraft power boxes before, can pick up a live design without a long runway, and can carry it from schematic through layout and test on a fixed clock.
What you’ll be doing
Owning a payload power electronics design end to end — architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout direction and test
Designing a phase-shifted full bridge DC-DC converter above 1800W, including the magnetics
Transformer and inductor design — turns ratio, core and winding selection, thermal and loss budgets
Running SPICE simulation to close loop stability, transient response and efficiency ahead of hardware
Producing the high-reliability analyses: parts stress, worst case, derating and failure modes
Supporting board bring-up, functional test and verification, and troubleshooting when hardware misbehaves
Presenting the design and its margins at reviews, and writing it up so it stands on its own
What you’ll need
Proven spacecraft or space-qualified power electronics design experience.
Phase-shifted full bridge design experience at >1800W DC-DC
Transformer and magnetics design experience
Payload power architecture design
SPICE simulation and schematic capture through to PCB design (Altium or equivalent)
Strong analog and digital electronics fundamentals
Space hardware integration, test and verification knowledge
Sound engineering judgment — balancing risk and technology against requirements, cost and schedule
Exemplary written and oral communication, with a track record of presenting technical material
US-based and eligible to work on ITAR-controlled programs
Nice to have
High-reliability or Class A mission design standards, NASA, JPL, DoD or MDA programs
High-voltage, high-current work (100V+, 100A+), MPPTs, PDUs, batteries, motor controllers, solar arrays
Basic test-only firmware development
Energy balance modelling, power architecture trade studies and design review support
Prior contract or independent consulting work, you land and add value fast
Interested – Click apply with an updated copy of your CV. 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.
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