Staff Weld Engineer

Location: Los Angeles , California
Type: Permanent
Job #8357
Salary: NON 200,000

Staff Welding Engineer – Lead
Long Beach, LA

We are working with an exciting Deep Tech company that are developing advanced thermal-management systems built around high-speed, electrically driven turbomachinery.

The Staff Welding Engineer will own welding quality, process development and production-floor execution for process piping and related hardware.

This individual will work closely with engineering and manufacturing teams to develop and qualify welding procedures, support fabrication and installation activities, coordinate inspection requirements and ensure compliance with applicable ASME and AWS standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop, qualify and optimise welding procedure specifications and procedure qualification records for GTAW, GMAW and FCAW processes.
Support welding of stainless steel, carbon steel and high-temperature alloys.
Own welding processes for pressure-retaining process piping and related hardware.
Review engineering drawings, joint designs and weld symbols for manufacturability.
Advise on weld accessibility, thermal distortion, heat input and non-destructive testing requirements.
Ensure pressure-retaining fabrication complies with ASME Section IX.
Ensure applicable structural fabrication complies with AWS D1.1.
Define weld inspection and acceptance criteria.
Coordinate non-destructive testing, including visual testing, penetrant testing, magnetic-particle testing and radiographic testing.
Support welder performance qualifications and provide technical guidance to welding technicians.
Troubleshoot welding, metallurgy and fabrication issues on the production floor.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Welding Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
At least five years of experience in welding engineering within aerospace, defence, industrial OEM or heavy-equipment manufacturing.
Direct experience applying ASME Section IX and AWS D1.1 requirements.
Experience developing, qualifying or controlling WPS and PQR documentation.
Knowledge of GTAW/TIG, GMAW/MIG and FCAW welding processes.
Understanding of weld metallurgy, heat-affected zones, thermal expansion and distortion control.
Experience supporting welding and fabrication activities in a production environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

Certified Welding Engineer or Certified Welding Inspector qualification.
Experience with pressure piping, pressure-retaining equipment or high-pressure fluid systems.
Experience designing welding fixtures.
Experience implementing automated or orbital welding systems for repetitive, high-precision piping.
Experience welding stainless steels, carbon steels and high-temperature alloys.

Along with a strong financial package there will be a great Equity offering, If you are interested then please apply today.

Visual Communications Specialist

Location: Austin, Texas
Type: Permanent
Job #8329
Salary: NON 90,000

Visual Communications Specialist

Location: Austin, TX
Employment Type: Full-time
Working Arrangement: On-site
Department: Business Development / Marketing

The Opportunity

EVONA is partnering with an innovative space and aerospace technology company to hire a Visual Communications Specialist for its Austin-based team.

This position is ideal for a talented presentation and visual designer who enjoys taking complex technical or business information and transforming it into clear, polished and visually compelling communications.

Working closely with senior designers as well as Business Development, Marketing and Engineering teams, you will help produce presentations and visual assets that communicate sophisticated satellite, spacecraft and aerospace technologies to a variety of audiences.

Presentation design is at the heart of this position. You’ll support a high-volume environment where strong PowerPoint skills, visual storytelling, attention to detail and the ability to work efficiently are essential.

Responsibilities

Format, design and produce presentation slides for business development, marketing, recruiting and internal communications.
Create and update presentation layouts, diagrams, charts, icons and supporting visual assets.
Translate technical and business information into clear, engaging visual communications.
Support rapid-turnaround presentation and design requests from Business Development and Marketing.
Incorporate feedback from Marketing, Business Development and Engineering stakeholders into design revisions.
Deliver polished and accurate presentation materials within required deadlines.
Maintain and organize presentation templates, slide libraries and approved content.
Support version control and ensure teams have access to current presentation materials.
Identify opportunities to improve templates, presentation systems and content organization.
Design supporting marketing collateral including one-pagers, digital graphics and trade show materials.
Develop an understanding of complex aerospace products and technologies to support accurate visual communication.
Follow established brand, content-review and confidentiality standards.

What We’re Looking For

2–5 years of professional experience in presentation design, graphic design, visual communication or marketing communications.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, particularly presentation and information design.
Strong understanding of typography, layout and visual storytelling.
Ability to translate technical or business concepts into understandable visual content.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Ability to manage multiple design requests and shifting priorities.
Comfortable working within a fast-paced, rapid-turnaround environment.
Ability to consistently apply established brand and design standards.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Comfortable receiving feedback and efficiently incorporating revisions.
Portfolio demonstrating high-quality presentation and visual communication work.

Preferred Experience

Experience within aerospace, defense, government, technology, manufacturing or another highly regulated environment would be advantageous.

Exposure to technical presentations, information design, infographics, diagrams, data visualization or engineering-related content would also be valuable.

Location

This is a full-time, on-site position in Austin, Texas.

Export Control Requirements

To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee or refugee, or otherwise eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to combine design, technology and space in a role where your work will help make highly technical ideas easier to understand.

If you’re a strong PowerPoint and visual designer who enjoys getting into the detail, working quickly and transforming complicated information into compelling visual stories, we’d love to hear from you.

Test Technician III – RF

Location: Westminster, Colorado
Type: Permanent
Job #8327
Salary: NON 30.00

Test Technician II – RF

Location: Westminster, Colorado
Department: Engineering – Test
Employment Type: Full-time
Working Arrangement: On-site
Salary: $29.97–$35.34 per hour

EVONA is working with an innovative aerospace technology organization developing advanced communications hardware for space, airborne, and terrestrial applications.

We are seeking a Test Technician II – RF to join a hands-on engineering test team supporting the development and testing of advanced RF electronics and active phased-array antenna (AESA) technology.

This position is ideal for an Engineering, Electronics, or RF Technician who enjoys working directly with hardware, building test setups, operating laboratory instrumentation, and collaborating with engineers to troubleshoot complex electronics.

The Role

You will work closely with engineering teams to create and operate antenna and RF test setups, execute test plans, troubleshoot hardware, and produce accurate and reliable test results.

The laboratory environment includes equipment such as VNAs, spectrum analyzers, RF signal generators, DMMs, power meters, automated power supplies/loads, and antenna test equipment.

You'll support testing from the component level through integrated systems while helping maintain efficient, organized, and repeatable laboratory processes.

Key Responsibilities

Execute engineering test plans and provide accurate and timely reporting of results
Build, configure, and support RF and antenna test setups
Operate electronic and RF laboratory instrumentation
Support testing and troubleshooting of complex electronics and RF circuitry
Work with sensitive electronic components including QFNs, chip-scale ICs, RF cables, and 0201 passive components
Read and interpret drawings, schematics, diagrams, and engineering test procedures
Maintain antenna testing facilities, equipment, cabling, and laboratory resources
Produce detailed and well-organized test documentation
Collaborate with engineers to identify and resolve hardware and test issues
Support clean, repeatable, and well-documented laboratory test configurations

What We're Looking For

Minimum 2 years of directly related experience as an Engineering Technician, RF Technician, Electronics Technician, Test Technician, or similar
Experience working hands-on with active electronics
Experience using laboratory equipment such as DMMs and power meters
Exposure to RF equipment such as VNAs, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators is highly desirable
Ability to troubleshoot electronic hardware with engineering direction
Ability to understand engineering drawings, schematics, and test procedures
Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
Comfortable working across multiple priorities in a fast-paced engineering environment
Strong written and verbal communication skills

Desirable Experience

Experience with RF testing, antennas, microwave electronics, phased arrays, AESA systems, anechoic chambers, or aerospace/defense electronics would be particularly valuable.

Eligibility

Due to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee, refugee, or otherwise eligible to obtain the required U.S. Government authorizations.

If you're an Engineering or RF Technician who enjoys being hands-on at the bench, troubleshooting hardware, and working with advanced RF technology, we'd like to hear from you.

Test Technician II – Antenna

Location: Westminster, Colorado
Type: Permanent
Job #8325
Salary: NON 30.00

Test Technician II – Antenna

Westminster, CO | On-site | Full-time

EVONA is partnering with an innovative space and aerospace technology company looking for a hands-on Test Technician II – Antenna to join its growing engineering and test team.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working directly with antenna systems, RF hardware, test equipment, and complex electronics in a fast-paced development environment.

You’ll work closely with engineers to support antenna range operations, build and maintain test setups, execute antenna measurement campaigns, troubleshoot equipment, and deliver accurate test results.

What You’ll Be Doing

Execute antenna and antenna range test plans and report findings.
Configure and operate anechoic chambers, antenna ranges, positioners, RF cabling, and test equipment.
Set up and align antennas, fixtures, instrumentation, and devices under test.
Support near-field and far-field antenna measurements.
Assist with antenna pattern, gain, polarization, and RF performance testing.
Work with equipment including VNAs, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, DMMs, power meters, and DAQ systems.
Troubleshoot RF cabling, instrumentation, test setups, and range configurations.
Support calibration and verification of RF/antenna test equipment.
Maintain clean, organized, and repeatable test environments.
Follow test procedures and provide feedback to improve documentation and test processes.

What We’re Looking For

2+ years of experience as an Antenna Technician, RF Test Technician, Engineering Technician, Electronics Technician, or similar.
Hands-on experience with RF systems, antenna systems, or active electronics.
Comfortable working with technical test equipment and instrumentation.
Experience with antenna measurements or antenna range operations is highly desirable.
Exposure to phased arrays/AESA systems would be a major advantage.
Experience with RF cabling, mechanical fixtures, and hardware integration.
Ability to read schematics, engineering drawings, diagrams, and test procedures.
Strong troubleshooting skills and attention to detail.
Comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Why This Opportunity?

You’ll get hands-on exposure to cutting-edge antenna and RF technology, including active phased-array systems, while working alongside engineers developing advanced aerospace and communications hardware.

Location: Westminster, Colorado
Work arrangement: Full-time, on-site

Interested? Apply today

Senior FPGA Engineer

Location: Seattle, Washington
Type: Permanent
Job #8320
Salary: NON 225,000

Senior FPGA Engineer – Radar Systems

Location: Seattle, WA
Work arrangement: On-site
Experience: 8+ years (Flexible)

An innovative space technology company in Seattle is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to lead RTL design and FPGA development for advanced radar systems. You will play a key role in translating radar algorithms into reliable, mission-critical firmware while working across hardware, software, mechanical, and signal-processing disciplines.

This position is ideal for an experienced engineer who can independently own complex projects, make sound architectural decisions, and deliver high-quality solutions on schedule in a fast-moving startup environment.

The Role

Partner with a multidisciplinary engineering team to define and refine firmware requirements.
Architect, design, and implement embedded firmware for a radar sensor payload.
Develop control and signal-processing functions in Verilog or VHDL.
Evaluate implementation complexity, maintainability, and FPGA resource requirements, including logic cells, embedded memory, and DSP slices.
Produce technical trade studies to support architecture and implementation decisions.
Integrate RTL designs onto FPGA and SoC platforms through synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, and timing closure.
Lead bring-up, verification, and validation of FPGA designs on prototype and flight hardware.
Collaborate with radar algorithm, electrical, software, and mechanical engineers to build dependable embedded systems.
Support the recruitment, interviewing, and hiring of additional engineering team members.

Required Skills and Experience

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
At least 8 years of embedded firmware development experience, ideally involving radar or other mission-critical systems.
Strong RTL design experience using Verilog and/or VHDL, including work on satellite or aerospace applications.
Hands-on experience bringing up and verifying RTL-based designs on target hardware.
Experience integrating FPGA or SoC designs, including synthesis, place and route, and timing analysis.
Familiarity with low-speed interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, and RS-422.
Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics.
Experience with Git, CI pipelines, code reviews, and version-control workflows.
Ability to work independently, stay organized, and deliver in a lean, rapidly evolving environment.

Preferred Experience

Experience in any of the following areas would be valuable:

Distributed digital system design and implementation.
Clock-domain crossing and timing closure.
AMD UltraScale+ platforms.
High-speed ADC and DAC interfaces, including JESD204.
Signal-processing algorithm implementation in RTL.
Embedded architectures involving multiple FPGAs and peripheral interfaces such as SPI, UART, GPIO, I2C, and Ethernet.
Efficient, low-latency data movement between FPGAs, processors, storage devices, and networking interfaces.
Ethernet and TCP/IP networking stacks.
Radar, satellite, aerospace, or other high-reliability applications.
Eligibility and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.

You do not need to meet every listed qualification. Engineers with strong FPGA fundamentals, relevant mission-critical development experience, and the ability to learn quickly are encouraged to apply.

Electrical Engineer

Location: Boulder, Colorado
Type: Permanent
Job #8312
Salary: NON 215,000

Founding Electrical Engineer
Boulder, CO

Our client are a new exciting Space startup looking for a Lead Electrical Engineer to take ownership of the electrical architecture and hardware development of our space drones from the ground up. This is a full lifecycle role. You won’t inherit a mature spacecraft electrical system or own one small piece of a larger program. You’ll take hardware from a blank sheet through architecture, design, build, integration, qualification and ultimately flight.

What You’ll Own:

Own the electrical development of their space drones across the full spacecraft lifecycle
Define the vehicle electrical architecture from the ground up, including component selection, interfaces, power and avionics integration
Take electrical hardware from initial requirements and architecture through detailed design, prototyping, build, test, qualification and flight
Select and qualify COTS hardware, balancing performance, reliability, cost and speed of development
Work hands-on with hardware, including building, debugging and troubleshooting electrical systems
Own electrical integration across the vehicle, working closely with flight software, GNC, autonomy and mechanical engineering
Develop and execute electrical test and validation strategies for both individual hardware and the integrated vehicle
Help build a comprehensive but lean engineering development unit (EDU) that allows the team to rapidly integrate, test and iterate on spacecraft hardware
Drive hardware readiness and own electrical go/no-go decisions for integration and deployment

Why Join?

Real ownership. You’ll own the electrical system across its entire lifecycle, from the first architecture decisions through to hardware operating in orbit. This is not a narrow subsystem role.
A founding-level role. You’ll be a core technical leader in the business, with meaningful equity and involvement in the decisions that shape both the vehicle and the company.
Build, test, learn, repeat. Our client is designing around high flight volume and rapid iteration. The goal is to build approximately 100 vehicles per year, creating far more opportunities to test hardware, learn from it and improve the next vehicle than a traditional multi-year spacecraft development cycle.
Build something that flies. If you’ve taken spacecraft electronics from requirements through design, integration, qualification and flight, and want to do it again with significantly more ownership, this role gives you that opportunity.

Requirements:

Significant experience developing electrical systems or avionics for spacecraft
Demonstrated full lifecycle hardware development experience, from initial requirements and architecture through design, build, integration, test and qualification
Strong hands-on electrical engineering background, with the ability to design, build, debug and test hardware rather than solely managing its development
Experience integrating electrical hardware within a multidisciplinary spacecraft or similarly complex aerospace system
Comfortable selecting components and defining architectures from the ground up
Comfortable operating in an early-stage environment where you’ll own your discipline while contributing across the wider vehicle and company

If you’ve owned spacecraft electrical hardware across the full development lifecycle and want the responsibility of taking a vehicle from a blank sheet of paper through build, qualification and ultimately into orbit, we’d like to hear from you.

Mechanical Lead / Manager

Location: Long Beach, California
Type: Permanent
Job #8308
Salary: NON 215,000

Our client is a well-funded commercial space station company building the next generation of human habitats in orbit. They take an incremental, hardware-rich approach, and they have already flown and operated their own spacecraft. Their first crewed station module is due to launch soon, with further modules and new product lines to follow.

The company has hundreds of engineers and its own manufacturing and operations facilities in Southern California. Its long-term roadmap includes government stations and habitats beyond low Earth orbit.

The role

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role owning the thermal and fluid systems that keep crew alive and hardware working on a commercial space station. You'll report to the Director of Thermal, Environmental and Life Support Systems.

You'll lead a team of three mid-level mechanical engineers, which is growing. You'll also contribute directly to architecture, design and test. The hardware you build will fly, and you'll support it all the way to on-orbit operation.

What you'll do

Technical ownership

Own the architecture and performance of thermal control hardware, including fluid loops, tubing and trays.
Lead hardware through its full lifecycle: design trades, manufacturing, qualification, launch prep and on-orbit operation.
Drive rapid prototyping and iterative testing to mature designs quickly.
Oversee analyses, requirements and integration with avionics, software and mission operations.
Lead internal and external design reviews to human-rated reliability and safety standards.
Deliver manufacturable designs, working closely with technicians, manufacturing and integration teams.

Leadership

Lead and mentor a team of mechanical engineers, setting technical direction and priorities.
Guide design decisions, trade studies, analyses and test plans.
Manage workloads, develop your engineers and deliver on schedule.

What you'll bring

These are listed in the order the hiring team weights them.

Flight-vehicle fluid systems. You have architected, built and operated a fluid system on a flight vehicle, such as a thermal loop, propulsion feed system or similar.
Structural and mechanical design. You have strong design fundamentals and can back them up with hand calcs and analysis.
Engineering leadership. You have at least one year leading or mentoring engineers.

Also required:

A bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a related discipline
5+ years of hands-on hardware experience (fabrication, assembly and/or testing)
End-to-end product ownership, and the ability to walk through specific problems you personally solved
First-principles thinking, curiosity beyond your own subsystem, and comfort solving novel problems independently

Nice to have

Experience on crewed or human-rated hardware
Rotating machinery, such as pumps or rotary fluid couplings
Siemens NX, GD&T and tolerance analysis
Structural analysis in FEMAP or ANSYS
Hands-on familiarity with machining, welding, brazing and tube bending
Leadership in a fast-paced hardware development environment

Package and practicalities

Base salary: $155,000 – $220,000, calibrated to experience
Equity: included for all full-time employees
Relocation: support available
Benefits: medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents; 20+ days' vacation; paid parental leave; 401(k); free dinners and onsite coffee
Location: onsite in Long Beach, CA, with up to 5% travel
Hours: occasional evening or weekend support during critical mission phases
Export control: this role requires access to ITAR-controlled information, so applicants must be U.S. persons (U.S. citizens, green card holders, or granted asylees/refugees)

How to apply

This role is managed exclusively by EVONA, the specialist space and defence recruitment firm. For a confidential conversation, contact Sam Wiltshire, Practice Lead, at s.wiltshire@evona.com.

System Engineer

Location: Los Angeles County, California
Type: Permanent
Job #8304
Salary: NON 215,000

Location: Los Angeles, California

Compensation: Competitive base salary + package

Environment: Smallsat Design and Manufacturing

What if your next spacecraft started with a conversation?

A customer comes to you with a mission.

They know what they want to achieve in orbit. Your job is to help determine how we make it happen.

What does the spacecraft need to do? What are the mission constraints? How do power, communications, propulsion and the wider satellite architecture come together? What trades need to be made? And how do we turn that initial mission concept into a spacecraft that can actually be built, tested, launched and operated?

We’re looking for an experienced Systems Engineer to join a rapidly growing international small satellite company in Los Angeles.

This isn't a role where you'll simply manage requirements.

You'll sit at the intersection of the customer, the mission and the engineering teams responsible for building the spacecraft.

You'll take high-level customer objectives and translate them into system and subsystem requirements, working closely with hardware and software engineers to develop the right technical solution.

One day you might be discussing mission requirements with a customer.

The next, you're working through a power or link budget, evaluating a subsystem trade-off, reviewing a satellite architecture or helping the engineering team understand how a change impacts the wider mission.

You'll be involved throughout the lifecycle — from the first mission discussions and technical proposal through design, integration, testing and ultimately deployment.

We're particularly interested in people who have already spent 5+ years designing and developing nanosatellites or small satellites and understand how the pieces of a spacecraft fit together.

You'll ideally bring experience across areas such as:

• Spacecraft system and subsystem requirements
• Small satellite/nanosatellite architecture
• Communications, power and propulsion systems
• Mission, power, link and delta-V budgets
• Technical trade studies and system-level analysis
• STK, GMAT or similar mission-analysis tools
• SysML/UML and graphical system modelling
• DFMEA and engineering risk management
• Python, C or C++
• Jira and Confluence
• Customer-facing technical discussions and proposals

Experience supporting US Government or defence customers would be particularly valuable.

And then there's the location.

You'll be based in the Los Angeles area, right in the middle of one of the world's largest concentrations of space and defence companies, customers, launch providers and engineering talent.

You'll also collaborate internationally with engineering teams across Europe, with opportunities for occasional international travel.

This environment won't suit everyone.

It's fast.

It's technical.

It's delivery focused.

And you'll be expected to take ownership rather than wait for somebody else to solve the problem.

But if you're the type of Systems Engineer who wants to understand the entire spacecraft rather than one small piece of it, you'll have the opportunity to work on genuinely challenging missions and next-generation satellite technology.

You must be based in Los Angeles or willing to relocate to Southern California and be a US citizen or US permanent resident due to ITAR/EAR requirements.

Salary: $165,000–$215,000 + health insurance, matching 401(k) and team performance bonus.

Senior Autonomy Machine Learning Engineer

Location: Denver, Colorado
Type: Permanent
Job #8299
Salary: NON 160,000

Are you passionate about shaping the future of humanity's presence in space? Lunar Outpost, a trailblazer in space robotics, invites you to join our team! Lunar Outpost is dedicated to creating a sustainable presence in space, while also driving positive impacts here on Earth. We are seeking a talented Senior Autonomy Machine Learning Engineer.

As a Senior Autonomy Machine Learning Engineer, you will research, develop, train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models for Lunar Outpost’s lunar rovers, command-and-control platforms, terrestrial robotic systems, and orbital assets. Working at the intersection of robotics, autonomy, AI, and space exploration, you will develop technologies that enable robotic systems to perceive their environment, interpret operator intent, reason about mission objectives, generate plans, and safely execute complex tasks with reduced operator oversight. Your work will include transformer-based architectures, vision-language models, multimodal foundation models, robot learning, and intelligent planning and decision-support systems. You will help build datasets, evaluation frameworks, software infrastructure, and deployment pipelines that support applications ranging from natural-language vehicle control to onboard reasoning, anomaly detection, mission summarization, and multi-robot supervision. You will collaborate closely with robotics, software, simulation, and command-and-control engineering teams to transition emerging AI research into reliable capabilities.

Take the #NextLeap with Lunar Outpost and work on the Pegasus LTV, which will carry NASA astronauts farther than they've ever been before on the lunar surface!

Key Responsibilities:

Research, design, train, fine-tune, and evaluate transformer-based machine learning architectures for autonomous robotic and command-and-control applications

Develop vision-language-action models, vision-language models, and other multimodal models that connect operator intent and sensor observations to robot plans and actions

Build capabilities for natural-language command interpretation, task decomposition, mission planning, action generation, operator decision support, and autonomous task execution

Develop human-robot teaming capabilities that enable operators to efficiently supervise and command multiple robotic assets

Create systems for mission summarization, anomaly detection, situational awareness, course-of-action generation, and operator-reviewable recommendations

Integrate machine learning models with robotic platforms, simulation environments, command-and-control software, and autonomy frameworks

Conduct hardware-in-the-loop tests, field tests, and structured demonstrations to validate capabilities under realistic operating conditions

Participate in design reviews, trade studies, technical risk assessments, test-readiness reviews, and demonstrations

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

3 to 5 years of relevant professional, academic, or research experience developing machine learning systems, autonomous systems, or intelligent robotic applications

Experience developing and evaluating deep learning models using Python and a modern machine learning framework such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow

Experience in at least one of the following areas:

- Vision-language models or multimodal foundation models

- Robot learning, imitation learning, or reinforcement learning

- Natural-language planning, tool use, or agentic systems

- Autonomous planning, reasoning, or task execution

Experience preparing datasets, implementing training pipelines, defining evaluation metrics, and analyzing model performance
Strong software engineering skills, including experience writing maintainable and testable software
Experience with Linux-based development environments, Git, and collaborative software development workflows
Ability to translate research concepts into working prototypes and evaluate those prototypes against measurable system objectives
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts, experimental results, limitations, and risks to multidisciplinary teams
Comfortable working in a research-oriented, agile, and interdisciplinary environment where requirements and technical approaches may evolve rapidly
U.S. Person

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field
Experience developing or fine-tuning VLMs, VLAs, large language models, or multimodal transformer architectures
Experience with robot foundation models, action tokenization, multimodal policy learning, hierarchical policies, or language-conditioned control
Experience applying supervised fine-tuning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, preference optimization, imitation learning, or reinforcement learning to foundation models
Experience with robotics middleware and autonomy frameworks such as ROS2
Experience integrating learned models with robot perception, planning, control, or command-and-control systems
A record of technical innovation demonstrated through deployed systems, open-source contributions, publications, patents, or significant project achievements

Compensation & Benefits: Compensation level and base salary are competitively structured and thoughtfully determined based on factors such as relevant skills, experience, education, and the scope of the role.

Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental, and vision benefits, with 70% of premiums covered by the employer
Paid time off: Three (3) weeks per year of vacation
Retirement plan: Up to 4% employer match on 401(k) contributions
Paid holidays: 11 company-recognized holidays
Parental leave
Educational reimbursement opportunities to support company objectives, continued learning, and career development

Lunar Outpost Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Lunar Outpost Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. All employees, including executives and human resources personnel, are expected to conduct themselves with professionalism and treat others with dignity and respect in accordance with this policy.

Senior RF Test Engineer (Phased array)

Location: Westminster, CO
Type: Permanent
Job #8284
Salary: NON 140,000

We are looking to add a Senior RF Test Engineer to our team. If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about developing critical test systems for leading-edge satellite, spacecraft, and aerospace communication systems, we would like to hear from you.

In this position, you are responsible for the design, analysis, and implementation of engineering test plans and procedures. The ideal candidate possesses a strong combination of hardware and software knowledge with proficiencies in RF measurements, test equipment (VSAs, VSGs, VNAs, etc.), test architectures, and automation. The successful candidate will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to address company-wide hardware test needs. Experience with phased array testing is preferred.

Core day-to-day responsibilities include collaborating with design and test engineering teams to develop test requirements, mapping requirements to reusable test architectures and procedures, implementing test plans and procedures, and logging and presenting results to key stakeholders. Additional responsibilities include lab and equipment management and guiding key equipment purchase decisions.

Senior-level test engineers are distinguished by an ability to architect RF test systems, to draw insightful conclusions from test results, and to participate in “design for test” planning and review from the early stages of RF product development. Test engineers are core members of the technical team.

The successful candidate will present engineering design review materials to our customers and executive team, as well as participate in proposal-writing efforts. As such, excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science (BS) or higher degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited university or institution.
Minimum of 5 years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 4 years of experience with a master’s degree. Industry experience in design, analysis, and implementation of RF test systems required.
High proficiency with RF measurements (Linearity, NSD, EVM, etc.).
Test architecture design and development including scripting, test executives, hardware, and measurement abstraction layers.
Proficiency with statistics and metrology as related to RF test design.
Hands-on experience with lab instruments such as digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, RF signal generators, and vector signal analyzers.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

Familiarity or hands-on experience with phased array testing.
Programming or scripting experience (Python, MATLAB, C/C++, etc.)
Understanding of RF and mixed-signal hardware (e.g. amplifiers, filters, ADCs/DACs, antennas) and its effects on test design.