Jobs at Axiom Space

Leads the Structures and Mechanisms team supporting Environmental Control and Life Support System designs across multiple aerospace programs. Responsibilities include workforce and resource planning, technical governance, engineering standards, quality reviews, risk management, staffing forecasts, metrics, continuous improvement, knowledge management, and technical capability development. The role provides subject matter expertise, mentors engineers, oversees flight hardware development and verification activities, and ensures delivery meets cost, schedule, quality, and customer requirements.

Provide high-level administrative and operational support to the CPO and CIO across calendars, travel, expenses, meeting preparation, action-item tracking, cross-functional coordination, SOPs, and use of project management tools to ensure priorities are executed and delivered.

Designs and fabricates mockups, prototypes, tooling, and representative hardware for engineering development, human factors assessments, crew training, and production. Uses CAD/CAM software, digital fabrication tools, shop equipment, hand tools, and varied materials including wood, metal, composites, and plastics. Collaborates with engineering and production teams, develops fabrication capabilities, communicates project status, and applies agile project management practices. The role requires safe shop work, physical material handling, and flexibility for evenings and weekends.

Leads spacecraft reliability strategy, reliability growth planning, system reliability analyses, probabilistic risk assessments, failure investigations, and reliability data management. Manages Reliability Engineers, coordinates with multidisciplinary engineering and Safety and Mission Assurance teams, presents technical findings to stakeholders, and supports risk-informed design decisions. The role requires extensive spacecraft reliability experience, management expertise, knowledge of human spaceflight systems, and the ability to deliver in fast-moving environments.

Leads the strategy, development, integration, verification, validation, and deployment of autonomous spacecraft flight software. Manages and mentors flight software engineers, defines architecture and standards for safety-critical systems, partners with systems engineering, GNC, mission operations, and safety teams, and oversees testing, risk mitigation, compliance, stakeholder reviews, and mission readiness activities.

Own end-to-end technical execution of bipropellant thruster assemblies from requirements through flight readiness. Responsibilities include propulsion architecture, sizing, fluid and thermal analysis, component selection, design reviews, supplier coordination, development and qualification testing, instrumentation, data correlation, and verification. The role provides technical authority and mentorship while meeting safety, performance, cost, schedule, and configuration requirements.

Leads the harness engineering organization responsible for designing, validating, certifying, and supporting production of aerospace electrical harness and interconnect systems. Manages engineers and technicians, technical reviews, compliance, risk mitigation, qualification testing, production readiness, resource planning, budgets, and cross-functional program execution. The role also includes recruiting, mentoring, process improvement, customer and supplier engagement, and ensuring cost, quality, schedule, safety, and mission-assurance objectives are achieved.

Leads the Digital Electronics organization responsible for designing, developing, verifying, qualifying, and sustaining FPGA-based, embedded, and avionics hardware for aerospace applications. Manages engineers, establishes technical standards and processes, oversees product lifecycle execution, supports staffing and resource planning, drives quality and continuous improvement, and coordinates with systems, software, manufacturing, and program teams to deliver compliant flight hardware.

Leads aerospace HIL and SIL laboratory operations, infrastructure, equipment, simulation platforms, and multidisciplinary technical teams. Defines verification and validation strategies for avionics, electrical, embedded, and integrated systems; manages resources, budgets, procurement, test readiness, automation, compliance, and documentation. Drives root-cause investigations, lab modernization, process improvement, and technical risk management while partnering with engineering, program management, quality, and certification stakeholders to achieve program milestones.

Designs, develops, tests, and evaluates structural and mechanical components for a commercial space station. Responsibilities include requirements development, structural analysis using hand calculations and FEA, 3D modeling, engineering drawings, design reviews, manufacturing and assembly oversight, qualification testing, documentation, and technical presentations. The role also includes mentoring, functional management, and ensuring designs meet applicable spaceflight and engineering standards.

Own the design, development, testing, and evaluation of structural and mechanical components for a commercial space station. Responsibilities include requirements development, engineering analysis using hand calculations and FEA, product lifecycle execution, design reviews, documentation, drawings, manufacturing and assembly oversight, customer collaboration, peer reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.

Design, develop, test, and evaluate structural and mechanical components for a commercial space station. Responsibilities include defining requirements, conducting hand calculations and FEA, creating models and drawings, overseeing hardware manufacturing and assembly, supporting verification and validation, leading design reviews, documenting engineering work, and presenting technical findings. The role requires collaboration across teams and may involve access to export-controlled technical data.

Owns the spacecraft energy storage segment for Axiom Station, from requirements definition through verification and flight readiness. Responsibilities include battery sizing and degradation analysis, electrical interface and power quality definition, verification planning, safety and hazard analysis, supplier technical management, requirements traceability, and integration with thermal, structures, avionics, software, operations, and logistics teams. The role presents technical material at major program reviews and drives risks, actions, and design decisions to closure.

Own spacecraft electrical power system architecture segments from requirements through verification. Develop power and energy budgets, load-flow and stability analyses, protection coordination, power-quality specifications, and interface control documents. Evaluate supplier designs, lead technical negotiations, support testing and verification, and present at major program reviews. The role also coordinates grounding, bonding, isolation, EMC, and fault protection activities while mentoring junior engineers and communicating technical risks and progress to stakeholders.

Owns Axiom Space’s compensation programs, including salary structures, job leveling, market pricing, annual compensation cycles, executive and Board compensation, equity administration, pay equity analysis, and compliance governance. Partners with HR, Legal, Finance, Talent Acquisition, consultants, and leadership to manage compensation exceptions, equity modeling, public-company reporting support, and compensation projects. The role is an individual-contributor subject matter expert with potential future people-management responsibilities.

Manages comprehensive employee benefits programs, including health, retirement, leave, disability, wellness, and voluntary benefits. Oversees vendors, compliance, renewals, open enrollment, employee inquiries, orientations, reporting, reconciliations, and 401(k) administration. Leads the Benefits Committee and applies agile project management practices, including sprints, status reporting, risk management, and stakeholder coordination. Ensures compliance with ACA, ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA, ADA, and related regulations.

Develop and maintain electrical power system requirements, models, budgets, interfaces, supplier data, configuration records, and verification documentation for Axiom Station. Perform power, energy, voltage-drop, protection, efficiency, dissipation, and transient analyses. Support laboratory testing, data reduction, technical reviews, and action closure while growing toward ownership of requirements, analyses, and interfaces under senior engineering mentorship.

Develop and improve supplier manufacturing capabilities, quality, and delivery performance. Conduct supplier audits, assess readiness, resolve quality issues through root-cause and CAPA processes, drive DFM and lean improvements, monitor supplier metrics, and coordinate corrective actions with engineering, procurement, quality, and program teams. The role requires extensive supplier-site travel and supports manufacturing readiness, risk mitigation, and on-time delivery.

Develop Linux-based DMA platform drivers and low-level kernel drivers for FPGA and SoC architectures. Build and optimize embedded networking stacks for resource-constrained edge platforms, diagnose hardware-software integration issues, contribute to Linux kernel development, and deliver testing, benchmarking, documentation, and technical milestones in collaboration with hardware and cross-functional teams.

Designs and implements a compliant identity ecosystem across cloud, on-premises, and mission systems. Responsibilities include Zero Trust architecture, IAM/IGA lifecycle automation, PAM, export-control enforcement, FIPS-validated cryptography, NIST alignment, threat mitigation using MITRE ATT&CK, and identity telemetry integration. Partners with incident response teams and stakeholders while managing project progress and agile delivery.