Jobs at CesiumAstro

Senior Legal Counsel will lead commercial legal operations, draft and negotiate complex agreements, build scalable contracting processes, advise business leaders on risk, support product launches and strategic transactions, manage outside counsel, and assist with corporate governance, intellectual property, international operations, and compliance. The role partners closely with business, finance, procurement, product, and operations teams in a regulated aerospace environment.

Leads full-cycle recruiting for aerospace, space, defense, engineering, and software roles. Builds candidate pipelines, sources passive talent, assesses technical qualifications, advises hiring managers, develops recruiting strategies, coordinates interviews, and negotiates offers. Requires strong technical aptitude, networking ability, organizational skills, and experience managing multiple high-priority requisitions in a fast-paced startup environment.

Coordinates interviews, candidate communications, job postings, applicant tracking system updates, recruitment metrics, background checks, drug screens, start dates, and onboarding support. Partners with Talent Acquisition to deliver an organized, professional candidate experience while maintaining recruitment compliance and prioritizing competing tasks.

Lead government contracting and regulatory legal strategy for aerospace and defense programs. Advise executives, business development, engineering, and operations on FAR/DFARS compliance, contract negotiations, export controls, licensing, technology transfers, audits, and regulatory risk. Build scalable compliance policies, processes, templates, and training programs while managing outside counsel and mentoring the legal team.

Supports the design and verification of space systems by developing requirements, defining interfaces, performing system-level analyses and trade studies, planning integration, and executing tests. Collaborates with electrical, mechanical, software, RF, and test teams. The internship is intended for engineering or technical students with space-systems exposure and may involve MBSE, hardware/software integration, and system-level testing.

Develop and integrate embedded Linux software, device drivers, libraries, kernels, bootloaders, and Yocto-based distributions for space and airborne platforms. Support the full software lifecycle, including architecture, implementation, testing, qualification, deployment, and in-orbit support. Collaborate with hardware, FPGA, firmware, and systems engineers on board bring-up and system integration, while contributing to design reviews and technical documentation.

Designs, verifies, tests, and deploys FPGA circuits and systems at the HDL level for satellites, spacecraft, UAVs, launch vehicles, and aerospace platforms. Work includes high-speed serial interfaces, digital processing cores, multiple clock domains, and management interfaces. The engineer conducts validation, presents design reviews, contributes to proposals, and collaborates with customers and executives. Digital signal processing, board-level hardware design, aerospace qualification, and reliability analysis are desirable.

Develop and verify FPGA circuits and systems across the full development lifecycle for satellite, aerospace, UAV, and launch vehicle applications. Responsibilities include HDL-level design, high-speed serial interfaces, digital processing cores, clock-domain management, testing, validation, verification, and deployment. The role also involves laboratory testing using electronic measurement equipment and may include digital signal processing and board-level hardware design.

Lead FPGA architecture, design, verification, implementation, testing, and deployment for space-based systems. Define architectures, interfaces, device selections, utilization, and power estimates while collaborating across systems, hardware, and software teams. Present technical reviews, support proposals, mentor junior engineers, and develop radiation mitigation strategies for space environments. The role requires HDL expertise, high-speed interface experience, FPGA tool proficiency, laboratory testing, and successful space-program deployments.

Creates and modifies SolidWorks models, drawings, and product documentation for aerospace and satellite hardware. Supports mechanical engineering throughout product development, ensures drawings meet standards and program requirements, manages CAD data and hardware structures in SolidWorks PDM, identifies design issues, and incorporates engineering change orders. Requires strong drafting, tolerancing, manufacturing, assembly, and communication skills, with knowledge of aerospace or automotive electronics design preferred.

Provides technical leadership for FPGA verification of aerospace and satellite hardware. Leads verification planning, simulation, debugging, qualification testing, failure analysis, root-cause investigations, and engineering changes. Develops reusable UVM-based verification environments and evaluates FPGA performance, reliability, timing, and high-speed interfaces. Supports design reviews, customer meetings, hardware integration, and cross-functional product development while improving verification methodologies and maintainability.

Lead the end-to-end development and qualification of reconfigurable processing units for spaceborne payloads. Responsibilities include architecture, electronics design, multidisciplinary engineering coordination, integration, environmental testing, flight readiness, production transition, technical documentation, risk mitigation, and customer communication. The role owns schedule execution and serves as the primary technical contact while guiding RF, digital, power, mechanical, thermal, software, and systems engineering teams.

Leads end-to-end communication system architecture for satellite, UAV, launch vehicle, and airborne missions. Translates customer needs into system architectures, requirements, technical baselines, proposals, and execution plans. Drives system-level trades involving performance, cost, schedule, risk, SWaP, reuse, and make-or-buy decisions. Provides technical leadership across RF, antennas, digital, FPGA, software, systems, integration, and test teams while representing solutions to customers and executives.

Provides technical customer guidance for satellite and airborne communication products from marketing through in-orbit support. Responsibilities include troubleshooting electronics and software, authoring application notes and manuals, translating customer feedback into product development, supporting integrations, developing processes, and leading technical direction for business development. Requires expertise in RF systems, FPGAs, embedded software, DSP, power electronics, and wireless communication links, with up to 20% travel.

Leads capture strategy and proposal execution for government and commercial satellite communications opportunities. Manages cross-functional proposal teams, customer and government relationships, market research, competitive analysis, pricing, BOEs, compliance, negotiations, and capture-to-program handoffs. Partners with engineering, finance, contracts, supply chain, manufacturing, and program management to develop winning, compliant proposals and support successful program transition.

Supports mechanical design and analysis of aerospace and spacecraft hardware through concept development, requirements definition, CAD, simulation, manufacturing, testing, qualification, and in-orbit support. Responsibilities may include electronics packaging, thermal management, shock and vibration analysis, FEA, GD&T, EMI/EMC mitigation, CNC manufacturing, cost analysis, and design reviews.

Serve as the technical authority for embedded software engineering, defining architectures, advancing methodologies, and resolving complex hardware-software integration challenges. Design, implement, test, debug, document, integrate, and validate embedded systems from requirements through production and deployment. Review code and designs, optimize performance, assess third-party software, support quality assurance, and provide post-production and in-orbit customer support while collaborating with software, hardware, electrical, systems, quality, and test teams.

Develop and maintain FPGA and digital design verification infrastructure, including UVMf-based testbenches, reusable VIP, CI and regression testing, simulation, emulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. Integrate SystemVerilog DPI-C with MATLAB and Python models, support Xilinx TLM and QEMU-RP environments, collaborate with vendors, mentor engineers, and improve verification processes.

Designs, develops, tests, debugs, documents, and supports embedded software for satellite and airborne systems. Responsibilities span microcontrollers, Linux-based computers, low-level drivers, board support packages, applications, interfaces, and user interfaces. The role includes software design reviews, hardware integration, quality assurance, performance optimization, code reviews, product qualification, customer presentations, proposal support, and post-production or in-orbit support.

Develop and port embedded Linux applications, device drivers, libraries, kernel customizations, bootloaders, and tailored Linux distributions. Maintain Yocto-based build systems and CI/CD pipelines, deploy software images, and support hardware bring-up, system integration, testing, qualification, and in-orbit operations. Collaborate with hardware, systems, firmware, and FPGA engineers while contributing to architecture, design reviews, documentation, and technical proposals.