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Supports software deployment, monitoring, automation, and cloud operations under experienced DevOps guidance. Assists with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, Azure cloud resources, Terraform infrastructure, Docker images, system troubleshooting, and security best practices. The role is a three-month temporary engagement with possible conversion to regular employment. It is onsite in Centennial, Colorado, or Long Beach, California, and requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for DoD clearance.

Design, implement, validate, and deploy autonomy and optimization capabilities for fleet mission planning, resource allocation, sequential decision-making, and threat assessment. Develop distributed optimization architectures, translate stakeholder needs into mathematical programs, and validate solutions through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and operational deployment. The role requires production-quality software, rigorous testing, and collaboration across engineering disciplines in support of space operations.

Lead design, analysis, and validation of spacecraft electrical power subsystems (solar arrays, batteries, distribution, and protection). Own architecture trades, perform modeling/simulation, radiation and reliability analysis, lead PDR/CDR, develop test/EGSE/HIL campaigns, support environmental testing, produce design documentation, and mentor junior engineers to ensure mission-ready, high-reliability power systems.

The Mechanical Engineer will design and develop flight hardware for missile defense and hypersonic vehicles, leading mechanical integration, creating structural designs, and ensuring compliance with defense standards.

The Senior Embedded Security Engineer will enhance the security of the flight software for space vehicles, ensuring high standards for safety and secure coding practices throughout the development lifecycle.

Lead design and delivery of electrical ground support equipment, overseeing standardization, power architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers.

Leads cybersecurity compliance and AI governance across NIST, CMMC, EAR, and ITAR frameworks. Maintains SSPs, POA&Ms, audit evidence, risk assessments, and compliance policies; evaluates AI vendors and use cases; embeds guardrails, access controls, data classification, logging, and review gates into LLM, MLOps, and DevSecOps workflows. Partners with engineering, security, legal, assessors, and government stakeholders to mature organizational compliance and responsible AI practices.

Serves as technical authority and team leader for space-based interceptor tooling and mechanical ground support equipment. Responsibilities include requirements, CAD design, fabrication, qualification, vendor management, safety and regulatory compliance, configuration control, root-cause investigations, budgets, schedules, and production support. Leads tooling engineers, chairs design reviews, and presents to program leadership, MDA offices, and government stakeholders. Designs fixtures, lifting devices, launch equipment, transportation containers, weldments, and integration tooling while ensuring compliance with defense and aerospace standards.

Technical lead for spacecraft electrical power systems: set architecture and standards, lead design/analysis/verification of generation, storage, and distribution, perform reliability and radiation analysis, direct qualification and integration, mentor engineers, and support hardware through production and launch.

As a Senior Flight Software Engineer, you will develop software for spacecraft systems, integrating algorithms, and maintaining databases essential for space missions. You'll work through design to flight implementation, collaborating on software and hardware simulations.