Jobs at BlackSky

Prepare quarterly and annual SEC filings, consolidated financial statements, footnote disclosures, MD&A, and XBRL tagging. Coordinate with legal, management, finance teams, and external auditors; support earnings releases, SOX controls, technical accounting research, complex journal entries, and accounting policy updates. Administer OneStream consolidations and assess the impact of new accounting standards. The role requires an active CPA license, public accounting experience, advanced U.S. GAAP and SEC knowledge, and eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance.

Coordinates complex interviews, candidate communications, recruiting documentation, reference checks, pre-hire administration, onboarding support, ATS records, recruiting compliance, reporting, and talent projects. Partners with recruiters, hiring managers, interviewers, and candidates to keep hiring processes organized and moving forward. Supports in-person interviews and People team operations for the Seattle office.

Monitor and defend corporate, product, and mission environments through SOC operations, SIEM analysis, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and vulnerability management. Develop detections, dashboards, alerts, and automation; assess compliance against security frameworks; document findings and procedures; support remediation, security training, and tabletop exercises. The role also contributes to endpoint, cloud, Linux, network, and application security across distributed enterprise environments.

Leads full-cycle technical recruiting for software, AI/ML, engineering, and technical program management roles. Responsibilities include sourcing passive candidates, screening applicants, coordinating interviews, partnering with hiring managers, posting requisitions, benchmarking compensation, negotiating offers, maintaining recruitment records, and ensuring recruiting compliance for a government contractor. The role requires aerospace recruiting experience, strong ATS and sourcing skills, excellent organization, and effective communication. Remote work may be available in certain states.

Leads cybersecurity architecture for software systems, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, and satellite ground-segment deployments. Develops security roadmaps, architectural blueprints, compliance solutions, and automated controls within Terraform and Helm. Assesses vulnerabilities, coordinates security implementation across engineering and infrastructure teams, documents systems, manages project risks, and translates regulatory requirements into engineering specifications. Requires extensive DevSecOps leadership, Kubernetes experience, security framework expertise, and eligibility for a U.S. security clearance.

Develops and improves satellite constellation orbit-design processes, modeling tools, and simulation scenarios. Performs constellation design trades, orbital mechanics analysis, mission planning, performance reporting, and operations-impact assessments. Supports customer programs, business development, proposals, demonstrations, training, and technical documentation. Requires collaboration across teams, independent work, and management of multiple technical efforts.

Leads the Mission Management Engineering team developing and operating autonomous software for satellite constellation imaging and communications. Provides technical and architectural direction, manages roadmaps and resources, improves engineering and operational processes, supports live systems and launch operations, and partners across mission operations, spacecraft engineering, product, and program teams. Hires, coaches, and develops engineers while ensuring reliable delivery aligned with commercial goals and program requirements.

Leads program finance for customer-facing and internal programs, including budgeting, EAC forecasting, variance analysis, revenue recognition, billing, profitability modeling, cash-flow projections, and financial controls. Advises program managers, supports staffing and resource planning, prepares leadership dashboards, and coaches finance analysts. Ensures compliance with GAAP, contractual requirements, and company fiscal controls while building the program finance function.

Provides in-office administrative and executive support for BlackSky’s Herndon location. Responsibilities include front-desk reception, visitor access coordination, facilities and vendor coordination, supplies and mail management, events and catering, office moves, equipment maintenance, communications, calendar support, and expense reporting. The role requires discretion, reliable transportation, strong organization, customer service skills, and the ability to support a cleared facility and lift up to 50 pounds.

Leads business development and sales capture across Europe for satellite intelligence solutions. Develops sales strategies, proposals, negotiations, forecasts, market expansion, and customer penetration initiatives targeting defense and intelligence agencies, commercial customers, systems integrators, and prime contractors. The role requires extensive international defense, intelligence, geospatial, or satellite market experience, strong technical and government sales expertise, and frequent travel.

Supports the Legal Department with corporate governance, entity formation and maintenance, corporate filings, SOX and SEC audit support, litigation assistance, external counsel coordination, NDA and agreement management, purchase orders, invoices, consultant agreements, renewals, and electronic legal file maintenance.

Accounting Manager overseeing revenue recognition, general ledger activities, monthly and quarterly close, technical accounting, financial reporting, internal controls, audits, and accounting policy updates. The role leads process improvements, supports public-company SEC compliance, manages complex ASC 606 analyses, collaborates across functions, and supervises accounting team members. Requires advanced US GAAP knowledge, CPA certification, public accounting experience, and strong leadership capabilities.

The Senior Product Manager for Analytics will lead product strategy, manage development roadmaps, define KPIs, support sales, and generate market insights.

Leads the Product Insights engineering team responsible for partner integrations, analytic product hosting, scalable platform capabilities, production pipelines, reliability, and monitoring. Sets technical strategy, oversees architecture and roadmap development, removes cross-team blockers, participates in code reviews and development, and manages hiring, mentoring, capacity planning, and team performance. Collaborates with product, platform, AI, imagery, and partner engineering teams to accelerate delivery of customer-facing insight products.

Lead regional sales efforts, develop growth strategies, manage teams, and build relationships with customers and stakeholders in the APAC region.

The Principal Engineer leads the development of automated test processes for spacecraft, ensuring robust, repeatable tests by managing cross-functional teams and leveraging engineering expertise.

As a Senior RF Engineer, you will design, test, and support satellite communication systems, interfacing with vendors and ensuring compatibility with ground systems.

Lead and grow a small legal and contracts team providing counsel on commercial, U.S. government and international contracts, export and regulatory compliance, corporate governance, SOX and risk management. Negotiate and draft complex agreements, support strategic corporate activities, manage outside counsel and litigation strategy, and advise senior leadership on operational, product, and regulatory matters in the space/defense context.

Lead architecture, design, test, and integration of electro-optical (EO) payloads. Develop test strategies, build and maintain optical test facilities and GSE, support satellite integration and on-orbit commissioning, characterize imaging performance, and collaborate across engineering, production, and operations throughout the payload lifecycle.