Jobs at CesiumAstro

Leads supplier quality engineering teams across aerospace and defense suppliers. Oversees supplier qualification, audits, quality requirements, performance metrics, nonconformance resolution, SCARs, corrective actions, process capability, FAI, PPAP, and continuous improvement. Manages resources, develops quality leaders, evaluates supplier risks, and partners with engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, and program teams. Travel to supplier and manufacturing sites may reach approximately 50%.

Performs quality inspections, metrology, calibration, nonconformance control, corrective actions, and failure analysis for electronic assemblies and high-reliability products. Uses CMMs, XRF, X-Ray, visual inspection systems, and precision measurement tools. Maintains quality documentation, supports audits, analyzes quality data, updates inspection procedures, and leads cross-functional continuous improvement efforts.

Leads supplier quality engineering teams across aerospace and defense suppliers. Responsibilities include supplier qualification, audits, performance management, quality requirements, FAI and PPAP review, nonconformance and SCAR resolution, corrective actions, risk assessment, capability improvement, and team development. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, and program teams to improve supplier quality, delivery performance, and supply-base resilience. Travel to supplier and manufacturing sites may reach approximately 50%.

Leads the development, validation, and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes, workflows, tooling, equipment, and documentation for complex aerospace and satellite products. Performs process analyses, capacity studies, first article builds, root cause investigations, corrective actions, and production readiness activities. Collaborates with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, production control, and operations teams to improve manufacturability, quality, cost, and production performance while maintaining configuration-controlled technical records.

Coordinate interviews, candidate communications, job postings, ATS updates, recruitment reporting, background checks, drug screens, and start dates. Partner with Talent Acquisition to maintain an organized, timely, and positive candidate experience while supporting onboarding and recruitment compliance. The role requires strong organization, communication, confidentiality, multitasking, and attention to detail.

Summer interns will support FPGA design or verification for satellite communication systems. Responsibilities may include developing and testing RTL, digital processing cores, high-speed interfaces, testbenches, constrained-random stimulus, functional checks, debugging, and coverage measurement. Interns will collaborate with engineers, present their work, and apply digital design or software verification concepts to space and communications technology.

Summer interns support analog and power electronics development for space and military products. Responsibilities include power supply design, simulation, PCB development, laboratory characterization, testing, troubleshooting, and data processing. Interns work alongside experienced engineers on active programs and technology development projects.

Leads functional verification for complex, high-speed digital communication SoCs. Develops SystemVerilog-based testbench infrastructure, test cases, verification plans, coverage methodologies, and assertion-based verification at system, chip, and block levels. Collaborates with VLSI design teams on verification strategies and may provide team or project leadership. Preferred experience includes formal model checking tools and DSP or digital communications.

Develops and improves manufacturing systems, production workflows, facility layouts, and standardized work. Performs time studies, capacity and labor analyses, process evaluations, and production performance assessments. Supports root cause investigations, engineering changes, corrective actions, continuous improvement, manufacturing readiness, and process documentation. Collaborates with manufacturing, quality, engineering, supply chain, production control, and operations teams to improve productivity, quality, manufacturability, cost, and schedule performance.

Leads commercial business development, sales, marketing, customer relationships, market analysis, opportunity capture, proposal development, and revenue growth for aerospace telecommunications electronics. Develops market and technology strategies, identifies new opportunities, supports R&D roadmaps, engages government and DoD customers, and leads strategic campaigns, teaming, pricing, and winning proposals.

Leads commercial business development, sales, marketing, customer relationships, market analysis, opportunity capture, proposals, and revenue growth for aerospace telecommunications products. Develops commercial and defense market strategies, identifies new opportunities, shapes customer deals, coordinates teaming and pricing strategies, visits customers, communicates market needs to engineering, and supports product and R&D roadmaps.

Leads commercial business development, sales, marketing, customer relationships, market analysis, opportunity capture, proposal development, and revenue growth for aerospace telecommunications and RF electronics products. Develops business plans, identifies commercial and government opportunities, shapes customer deals, coordinates with engineering and product teams, supports strategic and R&D roadmaps, and leads customer engagements. Requires extensive aerospace sales leadership, government contracting knowledge, and experience developing DoD and commercial markets.

Leads end-to-end development of spaceborne Ka-band AESA payloads, including architecture, electrical design, integration, qualification, flight readiness, and transition to production. Directs multidisciplinary engineering teams, manages payload schedules and technical risks, develops requirements and interface documentation, oversees environmental testing, and communicates technical decisions to leadership, customers, vendors, and partner organizations.

Lead talent acquisition for CesiumAstro’s Munich office and broader European growth. Build and manage a recruiting team, develop hiring strategies and pipelines, recruit specialized technical talent, establish recruiting infrastructure, partner with executives and hiring managers, strengthen employer presence, and ensure an excellent candidate experience while supporting German and European hiring requirements.

Architects, builds, and manages FlatSat infrastructure that replicates spacecraft missions for integration, simulation, testing, and mission rehearsals. Responsibilities include system architecture, hardware/software/ground integration, custom GSE development, configuration control, test campaign execution, risk tracking, and cross-functional coordination across flight, RF, payload, and ground teams. Requires extensive spacecraft integration experience, avionics knowledge, HIL testbed experience, and an engineering degree.

Designs, analyzes, and implements RF engineering test plans, procedures, architectures, and automation for satellite and aerospace communication systems. Performs RF measurements, manages laboratory equipment, analyzes and presents test results, supports design-for-test reviews, guides equipment purchases, and collaborates across hardware and test engineering teams. The role also involves customer and executive presentations and proposal writing.

Develops structural, thermal, mechanical, and stress analyses for aerospace and space systems. Performs FEA, load, fatigue, vibration, buckling, thermal, and mechanical evaluations; supports verification, qualification, testing, and validation. Reviews engineering data, CAD models, materials, and test results; prepares technical documentation; recommends corrective actions and design improvements; and collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and operations teams.

Leads the architecture, modeling, simulation, integration, validation, and verification of advanced communication systems for satellite, UAV, launch vehicle, and airborne platforms. Develops performance models, conducts link analysis and trade studies, resolves complex integration issues, guides engineering changes, and establishes repeatable modeling and simulation processes. Collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering and program teams, leads technical reviews and investigations, prepares engineering documentation, and promotes systems engineering best practices.

Leads the design, modeling, simulation, integration, verification, and validation of advanced satellite and airborne communication systems. Develops system architectures, interfaces, performance models, link analyses, trade studies, and technical solutions. Resolves complex integration issues, guides engineering changes, supports design reviews and customer discussions, and improves modeling, requirements, verification, and systems engineering processes across multidisciplinary programs.

Supports the design, modeling, simulation, integration, verification, and testing of satellite and airborne communication systems. Performs link analysis, performance evaluation, trade studies, requirements and interface development, simulation analysis, troubleshooting, root-cause investigations, and technical documentation. Collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering and program teams throughout the product lifecycle while improving modeling workflows, automation, system performance, and engineering processes.