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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.