Lead technical ownership of warhead, energetic payload, or munitions hardware from design through production readiness.
Define payload architecture, decompose system requirements, and manage interfaces among energetic payloads, fuzing systems, and delivery platforms.
Plan and lead verification, qualification, environmental, and live-fire test activities, interpreting results and driving corrective actions.
General Dynamics Mission Systems engineers high technology solutions, products, and services for defense and scientific missions. With a global team of over 12,000 professionals, the company values trust, honesty, and transparency, offering a flexible work environment and competitive benefits.
Design realistic mechanical engineering tasks based on product development, manufacturing, and industrial workflows.
Create and validate technical drawings, 3D CAD models, assemblies, and engineering calculations.
Review AI-generated engineering outputs for accuracy, feasibility, and compliance with requirements.
Anyone AI creates high-quality training and evaluation data for frontier AI models. It operates as a remote-first contractor-based team, emphasizing technical rigor and expert collaboration.
Own thermal design and analysis for integrated hardware products such as drones, aircraft, missiles, and defense systems.
Use first-principles engineering and simulation tools to define thermal architectures that withstand rugged flight environments.
Partner with electrical, mechanical, and systems engineers to document thermal constraints and design tradeoffs.
HIKINEX (Fastwater Staffing) is a specialized staffing firm connecting engineering professionals with defense and technology clients. The company sources top talent for mission-critical programs, supporting small teams focused on advanced hardware innovation.
Provide engineering support for battery system development, evaluation, and certification.
Review technical reports, test plans, and lithium battery safety certification requests.
Support S&T projects including SBIR/STTR and battery lab revitalization.
Peraton is a next-generation national security company delivering mission-critical solutions for government and military customers. It is a leading mission capability integrator with a culture focused on tackling complex challenges.
Design, develop, and integrate mechanical components for solid rocket motors, including CAD models and engineering drawings.
Perform detailed thermal analysis of rocket motor components, validate models with test data, and size insulation systems.
Collaborate with engineers to resolve system malfunctions and present analysis to peers and customers in design reviews.
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (OTS) is a global leader in munitions, weapons, and missile subsystems for the U.S. military and its allies. The company fosters a culture of honesty, trust, transparency, and alignment, offering a robust total rewards package with career development and recognition.
Conducts research, design, and development activities for new or improved products.
Collaborates with manufacturing partners and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.
Utilizes CAD/CAE systems to model designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems designs and produces munitions, weapons, and missile subsystems for the U.S. military and allies. Its culture emphasizes honesty, trust, transparency, and alignment, with robust total rewards and career development.
Architect solutions for Multi-Function Processors and Stores Management Systems for airborne defense programs.
Work closely with defense customers to translate operational needs into product planning and roadmaps.
Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary hardware, software, FPGA, and cyber-security teams.
General Dynamics Mission Systems engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of 12,000+ top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defense and scientific arenas.
Own electrical harness design for drone airframes, docks, and test platforms.
Select connectors, wire, and components; create drawings, schematics, and BOMs.
Support harness testing, resolve issues, and transition designs to production.
We help clients bring ideas to life across aerospace, medical devices, robotics, and automotive. With 3,000+ experts in North America and 57,000+ globally, we value and support our employees.
Integrate autonomy software onto UAS, swarms, and robotic platforms.
Deploy AI/ML models to edge compute environments and harden for contested conditions.
Conduct field experiments, validate mission threads, and train mission personnel.
GDIT is a global technology and professional services company delivering mission services and technology solutions to U.S. government agencies. With 26,000 experts operating across 50+ countries, the company fosters a culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.
Oversee end-to-end SAR engineering across the full lifecycle of a space mission.
Lead technical solutions for current and future SAR missions, including beam mode design and image quality modelling.
Manage mission-level risk, integration, verification, validation, and commissioning.
Fastwater Staffing and Recruiting is a talent acquisition firm specializing in technical staffing. They are hiring for a global leader in Earth-observation satellites, offering a fully remote role with optional relocation to Vancouver, BC.
Own system-level requirements, architecture, and verification for the Cyclops interceptor.
Build and maintain full traceability from customer objectives to subsystem requirements.
Lead technical reviews and ensure integration across all engineering disciplines.
They specialize in ballistic missile defense and develop the Cyclops interceptor, containerized launchers, and low-cost targets. Founded in 2024, the company fosters a mission-driven culture focused on problem-solving and ownership.
Own SAR payload subsystem definition, design, integration, verification, and sustainment across Earth-observation programs.
Lead requirements, architecture trades, performance simulations, and payload verification planning.
Act as technical interface with customers, primes, and internal teams; support operations and anomaly resolution.
HIKINEX (Fastwater Staffing) is a recruiting firm specializing in engineering and aerospace placements. They support remote-first hiring and value independent, technically strong professionals.
Own end-to-end SAR engineering across the full lifecycle of a space mission.
Lead technical solutions for beam mode design, mission concept, and SAR image quality.
Advise senior management, mentor the team, and manage mission-level risks and validation.
The client is a global leader in Earth-observation satellites, specializing in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) space missions. The company fosters a collaborative, cross-disciplinary engineering culture focused on technical excellence and mission innovation.
Transform raw customer and internal engineering data into structured datasets for AI training and evaluation.
Use CAD and mechanical engineering expertise to create ground-truth designs, annotations, and exploded views.
Collaborate with product, engineering, and customer teams to define data quality standards and workflows.
Foundation EGI is a MIT-born, venture-backed Silicon Valley startup building Engineering General Intelligence (EGI), an AI Copilot for design and manufacturing. They are a small, fast-paced team focused on reinventing how physical products are designed and built.
Contribute end-to-end to SAR engineering across the full lifecycle of a SAR space mission.
Lead technical solutions for mission enhancements, including beam mode design and image quality modelling.
Own design trade-offs across spacecraft systems, SAR payload, processor, and end-user applications.
Our client is a global leader in Earth-observation satellites. They are hiring a senior systems engineer to lead SAR mission engineering from concept through operations.
Contribute end-to-end to SAR engineering across the full lifecycle of a SAR space mission.
Lead technical solutions for mission enhancements: beam mode design, mission concept design, image quality modelling.
Own design trade-offs across spacecraft systems, coverage and access, SAR payload, SAR processor and end-user applications.
Fastwater Staffing and Recruiting is a specialized staffing and recruiting firm that places engineering and technical professionals in contract roles. This posting supports a senior systems engineering position for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) space missions within the aerospace and defense sector.
Lead a team of ~10 engineers while serving as chief project engineer for large defense and aerospace programs.
Provide technical direction, system architecture, integration, and verification strategies aligned with customer and mission objectives.
Oversee major design reviews, subcontractor deliverables, and risk management across enterprise-level programs.
Voyager Technologies is an innovative space, defense, and national security technology company delivering transformative mission-critical solutions. It is a mission-driven team of doers, thinkers, and builders focused on protecting lives and expanding frontiers.
Lead mechanical design engineering efforts on multi-disciplined project teams.
Prepare and review complex calculations, equipment designs, and specifications.
Interface with customers and mentor junior engineers.
Sargent & Lundy provides engineering design and consulting support for US Department of Energy sites and national laboratories. The company values employee well-being with comprehensive benefits and a commitment to work-life balance.
Own engine assemblies from concept to flight maturity, including combustor, thrust structure, gimbal, and fluid systems.
Generate CAD models and P&IDs, perform fluid network analysis, and source COTS components.
Develop and execute test plans, analyze hot-fire data, and mentor junior engineers.
Venus Aerospace is developing a proprietary Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine to deliver historic efficiency and performance for aerospace applications. Their team thrives on solving the toughest engineering challenges in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Lead strategic capture for USAF advanced systems, shaping solicitations and driving wins.
Build trusted relationships with acquisition program offices and industry partners.
Anticipate customer needs to influence policy, requirements, and aligned portfolios.
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems such as Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT/X-BAT aircraft. With offices across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, its technology supports operations worldwide.