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Senior Material Planner

  • Location: Westminster, Colorado
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8204
  • Salary: NON 130,000

We are looking to add a Senior Material Planner to our growing team.  If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about supporting new product development and manufacturing for an exciting product line of satellite communications equipment, we would like to hear from you.

In this position, you will support production and supply planning activities by developing material strategies, balancing supply and demand requirements, and coordinating material availability to support manufacturing schedules and customer commitments. This role contributes to operational performance by optimizing inventory levels, mitigating material risks, and improving planning processes that support efficient supply chain execution.

Working cross-functionally with supply chain, operations, engineering, program management, manufacturing, quality, and finance, this role supports production planning, material planning, inventory management, and supply chain execution while ensuring material availability aligns with production schedules, customer requirements, and business objectives.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Develop and maintain integrated material plans that support production schedules, inventory objectives, and customer delivery requirements.
  • Analyze material requirements, inventory levels, demand forecasts, and supply commitments to ensure material availability.
  • Evaluate inventory performance and implement corrective actions to resolve shortages, excess inventory, and material constraints.
  • Support planning activities associated with new product introductions, engineering changes, production transitions, and demand fluctuations.
  • Coordinate with operations and manufacturing to support production schedules and material readiness.
  • Evaluate supply and demand requirements while identifying material constraints and recommending recovery plans.
  • Support execution of production planning, inventory replenishment, and material allocation activities.
  • Maintain planning parameters and material planning data within ERP and MRP systems.
  • Coordinate with supply chain, engineering, program management, manufacturing, quality, and finance to support material planning objectives.
  • Communicate material shortages, schedule impacts, supply risks, and recovery plans to appropriate stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with suppliers and supply chain personnel to resolve material availability issues and improve supplier performance.
  • Maintain planning documentation, reports, and material status updates.
  • Drive implementation of planning process improvements and operational initiatives.
  • Build productive working relationships with supply chain, operations, engineering, program management, manufacturing, quality, and finance.
  • Maintain planning documentation, planning parameters, inventory records, and performance metrics.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of planning processes, inventory performance, and supply chain execution.

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Logistics, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
  • Strong knowledge of material planning, production planning, inventory management, and supply chain principles.
  • Understanding of material requirements planning (MRP), demand planning, inventory optimization, production scheduling, and supply planning methodologies.
  • Experience utilizing ERP systems, MRP systems, inventory planning processes, and business reporting tools.
  • Demonstrates analytical thinking with the ability to evaluate inventory performance, material requirements, production demand, and supply risks.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple planning priorities, schedules, and material requirements.
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills with supply chain, operations, engineering, program management, manufacturing, quality, and finance.
  • Attention to detail when maintaining planning data, inventory records, and material requirements.
  • Applies strategic thinking to improve planning effectiveness, inventory performance, and supply chain execution.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
  • Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, or equivalent platforms.
  • Working knowledge of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and supply planning systems.
  • Experience with business intelligence, data visualization, and reporting tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent applications.

Senior Material Planner

  • Location: Austin, Texas
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8203
  • Salary: NON 140,000

We are looking to add a Senior Material Planner to our growing team.  If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about supporting new product development and manufacturing for an exciting product line of satellite communications equipment, we would like to hear from you.

In this position, you will support production and supply planning activities by developing material strategies, balancing supply and demand requirements, and coordinating material availability to support manufacturing schedules and customer commitments. This role contributes to operational performance by optimizing inventory levels, mitigating material risks, and improving planning processes that support efficient supply chain execution.

Working cross-functionally with supply chain, operations, engineering, program management, manufacturing, quality, and finance, this role supports production planning, material planning, inventory management, and supply chain execution while ensuring material availability aligns with production schedules, customer requirements, and business objectives.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Develop and maintain integrated material plans that support production schedules, inventory objectives, and customer delivery requirements.
  • Analyze material requirements, inventory levels, demand forecasts, and supply commitments to ensure material availability.
  • Evaluate inventory performance and implement corrective actions to resolve shortages, excess inventory, and material constraints.
  • Support planning activities associated with new product introductions, engineering changes, production transitions, and demand fluctuations.
  • Coordinate with operations and manufacturing to support production schedules and material readiness.
  • Evaluate supply and demand requirements while identifying material constraints and recommending recovery plans.
  • Support execution of production planning, inventory replenishment, and material allocation activities.
  • Maintain planning parameters and material planning data within ERP and MRP systems.
  • Coordinate with supply chain, engineering, program management, manufacturing, quality, and finance to support material planning objectives.
  • Communicate material shortages, schedule impacts, supply risks, and recovery plans to appropriate stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with suppliers and supply chain personnel to resolve material availability issues and improve supplier performance.
  • Maintain planning documentation, reports, and material status updates.
  • Drive implementation of planning process improvements and operational initiatives.
  • Build productive working relationships with supply chain, operations, engineering, program management, manufacturing, quality, and finance.
  • Maintain planning documentation, planning parameters, inventory records, and performance metrics.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of planning processes, inventory performance, and supply chain execution.

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Logistics, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
  • Strong knowledge of material planning, production planning, inventory management, and supply chain principles.
  • Understanding of material requirements planning (MRP), demand planning, inventory optimization, production scheduling, and supply planning methodologies.
  • Experience utilizing ERP systems, MRP systems, inventory planning processes, and business reporting tools.
  • Demonstrates analytical thinking with the ability to evaluate inventory performance, material requirements, production demand, and supply risks.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple planning priorities, schedules, and material requirements.
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills with supply chain, operations, engineering, program management, manufacturing, quality, and finance.
  • Attention to detail when maintaining planning data, inventory records, and material requirements.
  • Applies strategic thinking to improve planning effectiveness, inventory performance, and supply chain execution.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
  • Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, or equivalent platforms.
  • Working knowledge of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and supply planning systems.
  • Experience with business intelligence, data visualization, and reporting tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent applications.

Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager

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

Location: Toronto, Canada

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package + stock options

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

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

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

The engineering philosophy is deliberately pragmatic.

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

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

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

Now the infrastructure has to catch up with the ambition.

The Opportunity

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

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

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

At many organisations, infrastructure sits quietly in the background.

Here, it is on the critical path.

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

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

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

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

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

What You’ll Own

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Team Around You

You won’t be doing this alone.

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

Engineering owns the technical baseline.

Supply Chain sources the equipment and manages commercial commitments.

Construction turns the designs into physical infrastructure.

Facilities takes ownership once those systems become operational.

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

What We’re Looking For

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why Join?

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

“I helped build that from the ground up.”

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

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

Now it needs the infrastructure to make it real.

That’s where you come in.

 

Site Reliability Engineer

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

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

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

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

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

 

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.

Director of Manufacturing

  • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8189
  • Salary: NON 250,000

Director of Manufacturing 

About the opportunity

An early-stage space company is standing up a brand-new production facility in the Seattle area (Redmond) to manufacture advanced radar payloads at volume for the space and defence industry. Right now the site is close to a blank canvas. Over the coming months it becomes a functioning, high-rate factory, and this role owns that build from the ground up: the processes, the equipment, the quality system, and the team.

This is a genuinely rare brief. Not maintaining an established line, but designing and building one, in a low-mix / high-volume model aimed at producing hundreds of deliverable units per month. If you've stood up or scaled complex electronics production before and want to do it again with real ownership, this is that role.

The mission context

The company builds advanced electronically-steerable radar payloads for Low Earth Orbit, delivering high-end radar performance at a fraction of the traditional cost, which is what makes proliferated constellations viable. The technology is based on mature phased-array heritage already in full-rate production for terrestrial and airborne applications, now being transitioned to flight-ready, high-rate space manufacturing. This role is central to that transition.

What you'll own

Manufacturing leadership; high-rate space hardware production; process and operational excellence; quality and mission assurance (standing up the QMS, with a dedicated Quality function to follow); capital equipment deployment; and supply chain and supplier management. Specifically, you will:

Design the factory layout, production flow, and test and manufacturing assets for the new facility, including clean room standup. Build a culture of quality, accountability, urgency, and continuous improvement. Develop manufacturing talent and clear career paths for technicians, engineers, supervisors, and managers. Establish a data-driven operating cadence for production performance. Proactively identify manufacturing risks before they hit programme schedules. Balance quality, schedule, cost, and technical risk. Deliver reliable hardware on schedule in an environment where products and processes are still evolving.

A typical week

Roughly 30% in meetings and organisational development across departments, 20% on research, process development, and asset acquisition and deployment, and 50% on process implementation, staffing, mentoring, and reporting.

What you'll bring

The must-have is proven experience leading high-rate, high-volume manufacturing of complex electronics, ideally microwave/RF hardware or antennas. You've run a real production operation at scale, in a low-mix / high-volume model, and you know what it takes to build one product consistently and reliably rather than a high-mix prototype shop.

You're familiar with government workmanship standards and quality flow-downs. Exposure to test automation, robotics, or ML on the production line is valued. Space-qualified hardware experience is a strong plus, but volume electronics credentials come first: a space background without high-rate manufacturing depth isn't the profile here.

Above all, you bring urgency, ownership, and a genuine appetite for building a world-class production operation from scratch.

Practical requirements

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

The honest preview

This is a build-it-from-the-ground-up role with real ownership and real impact on national security capabilities. It will also mean hard work, sometimes long hours, and a deep commitment to process and timelines. It suits a builder who's scaled production before, not a sustainer.

Thermal Dyanmics Engineer

  • Location: Connecticut
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8186
  • Salary: NON 190,000

Thermal, Structural and Dynamics Engineer

Space Coast, Florida | Onsite, full time | US citizens only | 4+ years' experience | $175,000+ plus fully funded medical

THE COMPANY

Our client is a well-capitalised space systems company on Florida's Space Coast, developing crewed habitat hardware for orbital and lunar missions.

The underlying technology has decades of development behind it and the business has moved out of R&D into production, with a purpose-built manufacturing facility already up and running. Funding is secure, including government programme funding, and the company is working towards flight hardware on a defined timeline rather than an open-ended roadmap.

The engineering group is small and unusually senior, with several people who have spent their careers on crewed habitat systems.

THE PROBLEM YOU WOULD BE SOLVING

The lunar surface is a brutal thermal environment. Surface temperatures swing by several hundred degrees between sunlight and darkness, and lunar night lasts weeks rather than hours. No sun means no solar, which means constrained power, and everything inside still has to work: the electronics, the science payloads and eventually the crew.

Solving that is the job. If you want genuinely hard thermal problems rather than incremental ones, this is one of the harder ones available.

THE ROLE

You will own thermal, structural and dynamics analysis across the lifecycle, from concept through detailed design, test and flight qualification.

  • Build and maintain finite element models of structures, mechanisms, pressure systems and integrated hardware.
  • Linear and nonlinear static structural analysis: strength, stiffness, stability, buckling, margins of safety and structural life.
  • Modal, frequency response, random vibration, sine vibration, shock and transient dynamic analysis.
  • Thermal modelling for steady state and transient conditions, covering conduction, convection and radiation.
  • Coupled thermal-structural analysis including thermal distortion and thermally induced stress.
  • Define and assess launch, handling, deployment, pressure, operational and environmental load cases.
  • Analyse flexible and deployable structures and their interfaces with rigid hardware.
  • Set analysis plans, assumptions, boundary conditions, material properties and load definitions.
  • Correlate models against component, subsystem and system level test data.
  • Support structural, vibration, thermal vacuum, pressure and qualification testing.
  • Review drawings, CAD models, material selections and interface requirements, and recommend practical design changes.
  • Produce analysis reports, margins summaries and certification documentation, and present to internal teams, customers and technical review boards.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

  • US citizenship.
  • Degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering or a related technical subject.
  • 4+ years performing structural, thermal or dynamic analysis on complex engineered hardware.
  • FEA capability in ANSYS, Abaqus, NASTRAN, FEMAP or equivalent.
  • Demonstrated experience across structural stress analysis, thermal analysis, modal and vibration analysis, shock or transient dynamics, and pressurised structure analysis.
  • Solid understanding of aerospace materials, joints, fasteners, bonded interfaces and load paths.
  • The ability to set your own analysis approach, judge the results and recognise where the model stops being trustworthy.

STRONGLY PREFERRED

  • Spacecraft, launch vehicle, pressure system, habitat or deployable structure experience.
  • Coupled thermal-structural analysis.
  • Composites, membranes, flexible materials or nonlinear contact behaviour.
  • Random vibration, acoustic loading, shock response spectra or coupled loads analysis.
  • Planning or supporting vibration, thermal vacuum, pressure, structural load or qualification testing.
  • Familiarity with NASA, DoD or commercial aerospace structural and environmental requirements.
  • Model correlation against test data.
  • Fatigue, fracture, creep, damage tolerance or structural life assessment.
  • Python or MATLAB scripting.

THE PERSON WHO FITS

The client has been direct about culture. Big-company experience is valued, but a “that's not my job” mentality does not survive here. This is a small team where people pitch in outside their remit and nobody is above a small task, leadership included.

They also want people who will challenge assumptions and surface failure modes early rather than wait to be asked.

PACKAGE AND PRACTICALITIES

  • Circa $175,000 depending on experience.
  • Fully funded medical insurance for employees, typically worth $20,000 to $30,000 a year against a comparable package elsewhere.
  • Onsite in Brevard County, Florida. Full time and permanent preferred; the client would consider the right contractor.
  • Must be a US citizen.

PROCESS

Initial call with the CEO, then an onsite visit, with a co-founder involved. Short and decisive, not a drawn-out process.

Associate Manager, Production & Material Planning

  • Location: Westminster, Colorado
  • Type: Permanent
  • Job #8181
  • Salary: NON 140,000

We are looking to add an Associate Manager, Production & Material Planning to our team. In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing production scheduling, material requirements planning (MRP), and demand/supply alignment to support program execution and on-time delivery.
This role manages a team of planners and works cross-functionally to ensure accurate forecasts, material availability, planning discipline, and alignment between manufacturing capacity and program needs. Operating within a regulated aerospace and defense environment, this leader ensures compliance, drives data-driven decision-making, and supports operational efficiency and continuous improvement.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Oversee the development, maintenance, and execution of the master production schedule.
  • Ensure production plans align with capacity, labor availability, material readiness, and customer/program requirements.
  • Monitor schedule performance, identify constraints, and develop mitigation plans to prevent delays.
  • Support engineering changes, configuration control, and production readiness activities.
  • Lead coordination with Operations to level-load production and resolve scheduling conflicts.
  • Manage daily/weekly MRP execution to ensure accurate demand signals, planned orders, and material flow.
  • Review and validate BOM accuracy, planning parameters, lead times, and lot sizing.
  • Monitor material shortages and drive cross-functional recovery plans to maintain schedule adherence.
  • Collaborate with Procurement to resolve supplier delays, expedite needs, and strategic material risks.
  • Ensure planning data integrity to support forecast accuracy, inventory health, and system reliability.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of Production Planners and Material Planners.
  • Provide clear direction, workload prioritization, and performance feedback.
  • Work closely with Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Quality, and Program Management to support program success.
  • Communicate planning risks, material constraints, and schedule updates to leadership and stakeholders.
  • Support new product introduction (NPI), ramp-up planning, and operational readiness.
  • Ensure planning and scheduling practices align with AS9100 requirements, internal policies, and customer standards.
  • Maintain audit-ready documentation and data accuracy within ERP/MRP systems.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve forecast accuracy, and enhance material flow.
  • Support root cause analysis and corrective actions for planning, scheduling, or material-related issues.
  • Reinforce standard work, process discipline, and planning performance metrics (OTD, schedule adherence, accuracy).

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Industrial Engineering, or related field. 
  • +- 10 years with BS – Degree focus in supply chain planning or procurement experience, including 2–5 years in leadership roles.
  • Ability to prioritize workload, multitask, and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
  • Strong understanding of production planning, material planning, scheduling principles, and MRP logic.
  • Familiarity with aerospace/defense manufacturing processes, lead times, and configuration control.
  • Working knowledge of BOM structure, routings, capacity planning, and shop floor workflows.
  • Ability to interpret engineering drawings, planning parameters, and manufacturing documentation.
  • Problem-solving skills using root cause analysis and corrective action methodologies.
  • Experience with ERP/MRP systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite).
  • Understanding of FAR/DFARS and AS9100 requirements as they relate to planning and documentation.
  • Clear communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and production meetings.