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Build and lead Varda’s first dedicated People Partner function. Advise executives and leadership teams, coach managers, guide talent reviews, performance calibration, succession, compensation, promotions, and employee relations. Establish scalable people practices from first principles, collaborate with Recruiting, Finance, and Systems/Analytics, and use data and AI to measure impact. The role is fully on-site in El Segundo and supports a rapidly growing engineering and hardware organization.

Develop and own electromechanical payload hardware from concept through design, integration, testing, launch, reentry, and recovery. Responsibilities include designing mechanisms and interfaces, performing structural, thermal, and fluid analyses, building and testing prototypes and flight hardware, coordinating across engineering disciplines, documenting requirements and test results, supporting mission operations, and contributing to post-flight improvements.

Supports Varda’s infrastructure, hardware, software, and services by deploying applications to Azure Kubernetes Service with Argo CD, maintaining systems, upgrading Atlassian tools, contributing to infrastructure-as-code and scripting, and automating reliability operations. The internship is full-time and on-site in El Segundo, California, with opportunities to work on cloud, Kubernetes, system administration, monitoring, and service uptime initiatives.

Designs, builds, and maintains automated test systems and ground support equipment for spacecraft qualification and manufacturing. Integrates chambers, pressure systems, instrumentation, and data acquisition hardware; develops PLC and EtherCAT tooling; designs electrical panels; wires cabinets; and commissions systems. Partners with propulsion, avionics, GNC, and manufacturing teams while establishing reliable engineering standards. The role requires expertise in industrial communications, real-time control, TwinCAT, and end-to-end hardware and software integration.

Designs, builds, commissions, and maintains mechanical, electrical, fluid, instrumentation, PLC, and data acquisition systems for spacecraft qualification and manufacturing. Owns ground support equipment and test infrastructure including propulsion stands, environmental chambers, fill carts, and gas/liquid systems. Integrates industrial hardware, supports high system uptime, collaborates across engineering teams, and documents reliable production systems.

Owns spacecraft guidance, navigation, and controls development from design through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, vehicle integration, flight testing, on-orbit operations, and reentry missions. Responsibilities include ADCS hardware sizing, autonomous control algorithm development, trajectory optimization, Monte Carlo analysis, six-degree-of-freedom simulation, GNC sensor and actuator integration, ground tooling, performance monitoring, and coordination with operators, agencies, and government stakeholders.

Manage the full lifecycle of government and commercial contracts, including proposal support, negotiations, FAR/DFARS and export-control compliance, execution, and closeout. Draft and review NDAs, customer, and partnership agreements; advise leadership on contractual obligations; maintain accurate records; and align cross-functional teams with signed agreements and regulations. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, requires up to 10% travel, U.S. person status, and eligibility to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.

Own Varda’s industrial and personnel security programs, including NISPOM compliance, facility clearance records, self-inspections, DCSA reviews, classified information controls, clearance processing, SCI access, briefings, visit authorizations, incident response, and insider threat support. Partner with HR, IT, Legal, Engineering, and business teams to build inspection-ready processes. The role requires an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, U.S. citizenship, onsite work in El Segundo, and occasional domestic travel.

Lead the development, deployment, administration, and sustainment of enterprise engineering applications, including PLM, CAD/PDM, MBSE, and change-management platforms. Build dashboards, integrations, ETL pipelines, workflow automations, and AI-enabled tools using technologies such as SQL, Python, and Power BI. Manage data governance, compliance documentation, system releases, vendor escalations, user training, platform evaluations, and engineering application adoption across hardware and software development teams.

Own and optimize Varda’s recruiting operations infrastructure, including Greenhouse administration, integrations, workflows, reporting, dashboards, forecasting, compliance, and candidate experience. Build scalable recruiting processes, connect tools through APIs, improve data quality, support interviewer training and recruiting events, manage vendors, and partner with Recruiting, People, IT, Finance, Legal, and leadership to enable efficient hiring at scale.