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Site Reliability Engineer

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

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

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

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

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

 

Embedded Software Engineer

  • Location: Littleton, Colorado
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8195
  • Salary: NON 175,000

Embedded Software Engineer
Location: Littleton, CO
Salary: $130,000 – $175,000
About the Opportunity
Join an innovative space technology that designs, builds, and operates a diverse range of small satellite systems supporting space-based turnkey missions for several business applications, including earth observation, communications, in-orbit demonstrations, risk reduction, science, and exploration. Astro Digital is headquartered in Littleton, Colorado with roughly 100 employees and infrastructure around the globe.
We move fast, deliver on time, and continuously improve systems in orbit and on the ground. We value engineers who take ownership, think in systems, and iterate toward robust solutions.

Position Summary
We are seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to develop low-level software that directly interfaces with hardware across spacecraft subsystems and supporting electronics.
This role is well-suited for an engineer with solid foundational experience who can operate independently on day-to-day tasks, while continuing to grow in system design and large-scale integration efforts with guidance from senior engineers.
Candidate will be expected to deliver working software quickly, contribute to hardware bring-up and debugging, and build a deeper understanding of how individual components interact within larger systems. This role is primarily on-site at our Littleton, Colorado headquarters or at our facility in San Jose, California, with limited remote work flexibility.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain embedded software for spacecraft subsystems, including sensors, actuators, power systems, and communication interfaces
  • Write and debug low-level drivers and board support code
  • Interface directly with hardware (SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, DMA)
  • Support hardware bring-up and debugging using lab equipment and standard tools
  • Deliver working implementations quickly and iterate to improve reliability, performance, and maintainability
  • Debug embedded systems using tools such as GDB, JTAG, and SWD
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and refine system interfaces
  • Participate in integration, HIL testing, and system validation
  • Contribute to Python-based test, automation, and data analysis workflows

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in EE, CE, CS, or related field
  • 5 years of embedded software experience
  • Proficiency in C and modern C++
  • Experience developing firmware in bare-metal or minimally abstracted environments
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Interrupt-driven design
    • Memory-mapped I/O and peripheral configuration
    • Timing and resource constraints
  • Experience writing low-level drivers and interfacing with hardware peripherals (SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, DMA)
  • Ability to work from datasheets/reference manuals to configure and debug hardware
  • Experience debugging embedded systems using:
    • Software tools (e.g., GDB, JTAG/SWD)
    • Lab equipment (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, multimeter)
  • Familiarity with RTOS concepts (threads, scheduling, synchronization)
  • Exposure to embedded Linux development environments
  • Experience with Git-based workflows
  • Ability to execute well-scoped tasks independently and deliver reliable results

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience developing firmware for resource-constrained microcontrollers in bare-metal environments
  • Comfort working at low levels of abstraction, including direct register manipulation and hardware bring-up
  • Experience with RTOS frameworks (e.g., Zephyr, FreeRTOS) and associated design trade-offs
  • Experience working across abstraction layers (bare-metal, RTOS, embedded Linux)
  • Familiarity with embedded Linux tools and workflows (e.g., cross-compilation, build systems)
  • Experience bringing up new hardware, including initialization and early-stage debugging
  • Experience optimizing firmware for memory, timing, or power constraints
  • Familiarity with ARM-based platforms (Cortex-M, Cortex-A) or similar
  • Experience with integration, HIL testing, or cross-subsystem debugging
  • Exposure to CI/CD or automated testing workflows

What We Value

  • Ownership of day-to-day work: Candidate reliably executes assigned tasks and follows issues through to resolution
  • Growth mindset: Candidate actively develops technical depth and takes on increasing responsibility over time
  • System-oriented thinking: Candidate seeks to understand how components interact within a larger system, including trade-offs and dependencies
  • Curiosity and critical thinking: Candidate asks “why” when appropriate—challenging assumptions, clarifying requirements, and improving designs
  • Bias toward action: Candidate delivers working solutions quickly and iterates based on testing and feedback
  • Collaboration: Candidate works effectively across disciplines and incorporates feedback from more experienced engineers

Pay Transparency
Astro Digital employees are provided with a comprehensive benefits package that includes company stock options, healthcare, 401k retirement plan, and PTO. The range of possible compensation for this role is $130k–$175k annually, depending on experience and alignment.

Embedded Software Engineer
Location: Littleton, CO
Salary: $130,000 – $175,000
About the Opportunity
Join an innovative space technology that designs, builds, and operates a diverse range of small satellite systems supporting space-based turnkey missions for several business applications, including earth observation, communications, in-orbit demonstrations, risk reduction, science, and exploration. Astro Digital is headquartered in Littleton, Colorado with roughly 100 employees and infrastructure around the globe.
We move fast, deliver on time, and continuously improve systems in orbit and on the ground. We value engineers who take ownership, think in systems, and iterate toward robust solutions.

Position Summary
We are seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to develop low-level software that directly interfaces with hardware across spacecraft subsystems and supporting electronics.
This role is well-suited for an engineer with solid foundational experience who can operate independently on day-to-day tasks, while continuing to grow in system design and large-scale integration efforts with guidance from senior engineers.
Candidate will be expected to deliver working software quickly, contribute to hardware bring-up and debugging, and build a deeper understanding of how individual components interact within larger systems. This role is primarily on-site at our Littleton, Colorado headquarters or at our facility in San Jose, California, with limited remote work flexibility.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain embedded software for spacecraft subsystems, including sensors, actuators, power systems, and communication interfaces
  • Write and debug low-level drivers and board support code
  • Interface directly with hardware (SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, DMA)
  • Support hardware bring-up and debugging using lab equipment and standard tools
  • Deliver working implementations quickly and iterate to improve reliability, performance, and maintainability
  • Debug embedded systems using tools such as GDB, JTAG, and SWD
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and refine system interfaces
  • Participate in integration, HIL testing, and system validation
  • Contribute to Python-based test, automation, and data analysis workflows

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in EE, CE, CS, or related field
  • 5 years of embedded software experience
  • Proficiency in C and modern C++
  • Experience developing firmware in bare-metal or minimally abstracted environments
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Interrupt-driven design
    • Memory-mapped I/O and peripheral configuration
    • Timing and resource constraints
  • Experience writing low-level drivers and interfacing with hardware peripherals (SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, DMA)
  • Ability to work from datasheets/reference manuals to configure and debug hardware
  • Experience debugging embedded systems using:
    • Software tools (e.g., GDB, JTAG/SWD)
    • Lab equipment (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, multimeter)
  • Familiarity with RTOS concepts (threads, scheduling, synchronization)
  • Exposure to embedded Linux development environments
  • Experience with Git-based workflows
  • Ability to execute well-scoped tasks independently and deliver reliable results

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience developing firmware for resource-constrained microcontrollers in bare-metal environments
  • Comfort working at low levels of abstraction, including direct register manipulation and hardware bring-up
  • Experience with RTOS frameworks (e.g., Zephyr, FreeRTOS) and associated design trade-offs
  • Experience working across abstraction layers (bare-metal, RTOS, embedded Linux)
  • Familiarity with embedded Linux tools and workflows (e.g., cross-compilation, build systems)
  • Experience bringing up new hardware, including initialization and early-stage debugging
  • Experience optimizing firmware for memory, timing, or power constraints
  • Familiarity with ARM-based platforms (Cortex-M, Cortex-A) or similar
  • Experience with integration, HIL testing, or cross-subsystem debugging
  • Exposure to CI/CD or automated testing workflows

What We Value

  • Ownership of day-to-day work: Candidate reliably executes assigned tasks and follows issues through to resolution
  • Growth mindset: Candidate actively develops technical depth and takes on increasing responsibility over time
  • System-oriented thinking: Candidate seeks to understand how components interact within a larger system, including trade-offs and dependencies
  • Curiosity and critical thinking: Candidate asks “why” when appropriate—challenging assumptions, clarifying requirements, and improving designs
  • Bias toward action: Candidate delivers working solutions quickly and iterates based on testing and feedback
  • Collaboration: Candidate works effectively across disciplines and incorporates feedback from more experienced engineers

Pay Transparency
Astro Digital employees are provided with a comprehensive benefits package that includes company stock options, healthcare, 401k retirement plan, and PTO. The range of possible compensation for this role is $130k–$175k annually, depending on experience and alignment.

 

Senior GNC Engineer

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

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

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

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

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

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

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

 

RF Design Engineer

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

Principal RF/Microwave Engineer — Spaceborne Radar Payloads

About the opportunity

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

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

The mission context

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

The two profiles

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

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

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

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

What you'll own

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

A typical week

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

What you'll bring

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

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

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

Practical requirements

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

The honest preview

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

Mission Integration Engineer

  • Location: Arvada, Colorado
  • Remote: Hybrid
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8191
  • Salary: NON 180,000

Mission Integration Engineer – Satellite Ground Systems

 

Hybrid | Flexible Locations: Denver, CO, Seattle, WA, or Washington DC

 

An early-stage company in the satellite software space is hiring a Mission Integration Engineer to play a key role in enabling complex satellite missions across both government and commercial domains.

 

You’ll work across mission architecture, ground systems integration, customer onboarding, and launch-readiness- translating technical requirements into operational reality. The company’s platform is built to simplify satellite operations, offering cloud-based command & control tools that support real-time, multi-asset missions.

 

As part of a small but impactful team, you’ll guide end-to-end integration: from architecture planning and interface definition, to mission simulations and on-console early orbit support.

 

What you’ll do:

  • Lead technical integration for satellite missions across ground, space, and cloud assets
  • Act as a mission SME for customer onboarding, from pre-launch to operations
  • Develop ICDs, support V&V processes, and contribute to mission readiness documentation
  • Coordinate with engineering, product, and mission partners to ensure successful deployment
  • Feed insights back into product development based on recurring mission needs

 

What we’re looking for:

  • 5+ years in mission integration or systems engineering within the space domain
  • Experience with satellite ground systems, TT&C, and mission operations tools
  • Hands-on with scripting (Python/Bash) and cloud deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
  • Strong cross-functional communication and customer-facing skills
  • Active security clearance required

 

This is a hybrid role with flexibility across four U.S. offices. You’ll get meaningful ownership, a direct impact on active missions, and the chance to shape a growing platform redefining satellite ops.

Lead Radiation Engineer

  • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8180
  • Salary: NON 215,000

We’re Hiring: Lead Radiation Effects Engineer

Ready to help build electronics tough enough for space?

A VC-backed space technology startup in Seattle is seeking a Lead Radiation Effects Engineer to own radiation assurance for advanced spaceborne radar systems. You’ll shape the strategy, lead test campaigns, and influence the design decisions that keep mission-critical hardware reliable in orbit.

What you’ll do:

• Own the radiation assurance strategy
• Model mission radiation environments and calculate margins
• Plan and execute SEE, TID, and displacement-damage testing
• Analyze results and recommend radiation mitigations
• Guide component selection, derating, and system architecture
• Build analysis and test-automation tools
• Support reliability reviews and on-orbit investigations

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years in radiation effects or high-reliability electronics
• Hands-on radiation test and qualification experience
• Knowledge of tools such as OMERE, SPENVIS, or CREME96
• Understanding of spacecraft electronics and schematics
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or a related field
• Python or MATLAB experience is a plus
• FPGA, ASIC, PCB, or system-reliability experience is highly valued

Seattle, WA — on-site
$185,000–$215,000 base salary + equity
Some travel required

Manufacturing and Materials Engineer/Specialist

  • Location: Toronto, Ontario
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8178
  • Salary: NON 150,000

Manufacturing & Materials Engineer / Specialist – Propulsion

About the Company

Our client is an innovative aerospace company developing a new orbital launch vehicle and associated propulsion systems.

The organisation brings together experienced engineers from leading aerospace, space, propulsion and advanced manufacturing companies.

Its mission is to develop a reliable and scalable launch capability, with an engineering philosophy focused on practical design, proven technologies, rapid development and extensive hardware testing.

The company is well funded and is expanding its engineering team as it progresses through engine and vehicle development.

About the Role

We are looking for a Manufacturing & Materials Engineer / Specialist to support the development and production of advanced propulsion hardware.

The position will be responsible for the selection, qualification and control of metallic materials and manufacturing processes, helping turn engineering designs into reliable, production-ready hardware.

Sitting at the intersection of materials science, design engineering, manufacturing, quality, production and supply chain, this individual will support material selection, process development, fabrication planning, producibility, inspection and failure investigation.

You will work closely with propulsion, turbomachinery, mechanical and fluids engineers to select and qualify metallic materials, develop fabrication methods, establish process controls and resolve manufacturing challenges as hardware progresses from development into production.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and execute materials and manufacturing strategies for complex propulsion hardware.
  • Support material selection, process development, fabrication planning, producibility and industrialisation.
  • Develop and maintain material specifications, process specifications, qualification plans and associated workflows.
  • Characterise and evaluate metallic material behaviour relevant to design and manufacturing.
  • Develop, optimise, qualify and control fabrication and manufacturing processes.
  • Develop manufacturing plans, travellers, work instructions, build sequences and process flows.
  • Lead or support Design for Manufacture (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) activities.
  • Work closely with design engineers to ensure hardware concepts align with manufacturing capability, material availability and production constraints.
  • Support the development and maturation of critical manufacturing methods.
  • Work with operations and supply-chain teams to identify and qualify suppliers for raw materials, forgings and fabricated components.
  • Evaluate material pedigree, traceability, source availability, lead times, certifiability and scalability.
  • Lead or support failure analysis and manufacturing investigations.
  • Resolve production issues including non-conformances, rework, process escapes, yield issues and fabrication anomalies.
  • Contribute to technical reviews, trade studies and development planning relating to materials, manufacturing methods, production scaling and hardware risk.

Required Experience

  • Experience in manufacturing engineering, materials engineering or process engineering involving metallic aerospace hardware or another highly demanding hardware environment.
  • Strong understanding of metallic material systems and alloys, including how product form, temper, heat treatment and processing history influence performance and manufacturability.
  • Experience developing, supporting or optimising fabrication processes such as:
    • machining
    • welding
    • forming
    • joining
    • heat treatment
    • assembly
  • Strong understanding of how manufacturing processes affect strength, fatigue performance, residual stress, distortion, crack initiation, dimensional control and inspectability.
  • Experience developing manufacturing documentation such as process flows, work instructions, manufacturing plans and fabrication/build sequences.
  • Strong understanding of manufacturing process capability, material behaviour and producibility.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, production, quality, operations and suppliers.
  • Strong technical judgement with the ability to balance performance, manufacturability, schedule, scalability and cost.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience with propulsion systems, launch vehicles, spacecraft, turbomachinery, pressure vessels, tanks, manifolds or other high-performance aerospace hardware.
  • Experience working with aluminium alloys, nickel alloys, titanium or other aerospace metallic systems.
  • Experience with welded assemblies, machined components, formed structures, manifolds, pressure-containing hardware or thermally demanding components.
  • Experience developing or qualifying welding, brazing or other joining processes.
  • Experience with both metal additive manufacturing and conventional machining/joining processes.
  • Experience qualifying suppliers for metallic raw materials and specialist fabrication processes.
  • Familiarity with NDT/NDE methods.
  • Familiarity with aerospace quality and manufacturing frameworks such as AS9100, NASA, ECSS or equivalent standards.
  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a related discipline.
  • Professional engineering registration/licensure may be required where the individual assumes responsibility for engineering work affecting public safety.

Head of Partnerships

  • Location: San Franscisco, California
  • Remote: Remote
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8170
  • Salary: NON 200,000

We're working with a fast-growing US defense technology company looking for a Head of Partnerships to own and scale relationships across the autonomous systems ecosystem.

This is a hands-on leadership position for someone who can identify the right partnerships, originate relationships and personally turn them into long-term, revenue-generating programs.

Key Responsibilties: 

  • Build partnerships with emerging and established defense platform OEMs
  • Own relationships from initial engagement through pilot, integration and commercial growth
  • Develop opportunities across UAS, airborne systems and maritime platforms
  • Negotiate licensing, joint development and data-sharing agreements
  • Work closely with product and leadership on GTM strategy and market priorities
  • Build relationships across both industry and relevant government stakeholders
  • Represent the business at conferences, consortia and industry events

Key Requirements: 

  • Proven experience across partnerships, BD or program management within defense, aerospace or autonomous systems
  • Strong network across defense OEMs, neoprimes and the wider UAS/autonomy ecosystem
  • Experience selling software or technology that integrates into another company's platform
  • Understanding of autonomy, navigation, avionics, AI/ML, control systems or adjacent technologies
  • Evidence of personally originating and growing complex partnerships
  • A genuine startup mentality, with pace, ownership and a willingness to get hands-on
  • US Secret clearance or eligibility to obtain one

This isn't a role for someone who wants to purely set strategy or simply close transactions. We're looking for someone who can determine where to focus, build the relationship and then make the partnership happen.

Director of Avionics

  • Location: Los Angeles County, California
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8158
  • Salary: NON 250,000

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
Experience: 5+ years preferred; academically strong candidates with less experience will also be considered

The client is looking for an experienced, genuinely hands-on mechanical technician to support the assembly, installation and testing of a 725 kN liquid rocket engine and its associated test hardware.

The strongest candidates do not necessarily need rocket experience. The priority is finding people who have spent years physically building, assembling and maintaining complex mechanical hardware—particularly engines, tubing and fluid systems.

The client is also open to candidates with less hands-on experience where they have a strong academic foundation, relevant technical training and clear practical potential.

What We Really Need

The biggest priorities are:

5–10+ years hands-on technician/mechanical experience preferred; less experience may be considered for academically strong candidates with relevant practical training

Strong tubing experience with cutting, bending, routing, fitting and connecting tubing

Experience with AN/MS/JIC fittings, Swagelok or similar

Engine assembly or engine maintenance experience is highly desirable

Comfortable assembling/disassembling complex mechanical systems

Experience with torque procedures, fasteners, fittings and mechanical interfaces

Able to read engineering drawings, schematics and technical instructions

Experience with pressure/leak testing and mechanical inspection

Comfortable using hand tools, torque wrenches, calipers, micrometers and precision equipment

Strong safety culture and disciplined approach to procedures

Best Backgrounds to Target

Aviation / Aircraft Maintenance should now be one of the strongest sourcing pools. Think aircraft mechanics, AMEs, engine technicians, propulsion technicians, MRO technicians and people who have worked on aircraft engines, fuel/hydraulic/pneumatic systems and aircraft tubing.

Military is also particularly attractive, especially technicians who have maintained aircraft, helicopters, engines, vehicles or complex mechanical systems. Military candidates can bring exactly the procedural discipline, safety culture and hands-on maintenance background the client wants.

Other strong backgrounds include aerospace/space, gas turbines, oil & gas, industrial gas, high-pressure systems, turbomachinery, heavy mechanical maintenance and engine manufacturing/testing.

Major Advantage / Nice to Have

Experience with cryogenics, high-pressure gas/fluid systems, rocket engines, propulsion test stands, turbomachinery, valves/regulators, instrumentation, hydraulics/pneumatics, pressure vessels, oxygen systems, welding/brazing, rigging or cranes would move someone closer to the ideal profile.