Jobs at Firefly Aerospace

Leads the architecture, design, programming, testing, commissioning, and operation of instrumentation and control systems for aerospace test stands, launch infrastructure, and ground support equipment. Designs PLC, HMI, SCADA, data acquisition, electrical, instrumentation, and safety systems; supports procurement, installation, acceptance testing, launch operations, troubleshooting, and documentation. Serves as a technical authority, mentors engineers, develops standards and roadmaps, supports proposals and customers, and provides technical leadership for complex projects.

Designs, analyzes, builds, and commissions fluid ground support systems for launch sites, test stands, and production facilities. Responsibilities include P&IDs, component sizing, CAD, bills of materials, procurement, fabrication support, installation, testing, design reviews, troubleshooting, mentoring, and technical leadership. Systems include cryogenic, propellant, incompressible, pneumatic, hydraulic, and high-pressure gas systems. The role requires travel to support ground-system construction and activation.

Designs, analyzes, builds, and commissions fluid ground support equipment for launch sites, test stands, and production facilities. Responsibilities include developing P&IDs, sizing components, creating CAD and bills of materials, procuring hardware, supporting fabrication and installation, troubleshooting with technicians and welders, leading design reviews, and supporting activation at test and launch sites. Systems include cryogenic, propellant, incompressible, pneumatic, hydraulic, and high-pressure gas applications.

Designs, implements, monitors, and troubleshoots campus, datacenter, WAN, firewall, and mission-critical network infrastructure. Manages network upgrades and migrations, improves resilience and performance, develops automation, and supports launch and spacecraft vehicle networks. Collaborates with IT and engineering teams, resolves high-risk issues, maintains documentation, and conducts network assessments. The role is fully onsite in Briggs, Texas and requires substantial networking experience, including routing, switching, security, automation, and network monitoring.

Manage cybersecurity authorization and compliance for mission-critical space and enterprise systems. Lead RMF processes, ATO packages, SSPs, POA&Ms, SARs, continuous monitoring, control assessments, STIG validation, vulnerability remediation, and CMMC/NIST compliance. Translate national security requirements into system controls, support engineering reviews, coordinate with system owners and Authorizing Officials, and brief executives and government customers. The role also supports DCSA assessments, security audits, incident response, and secure system development.

Designs, builds, tests, and deploys AI-powered tools and applications supporting manufacturing and business operations. Develops quality-control and production-automation systems, MLOps and model-evaluation pipelines, data pipelines, APIs, and integrations. Partners with business and technical teams, coordinates infrastructure needs, conducts system audits, creates documentation, troubleshoots issues, and improves AI/ML capabilities within an Agile/Scrum environment.

Lead and mentor a team to design and troubleshoot instrumentation and control systems for launch vehicles while managing project milestones and budgets.

Leads and develops a team of Mission Managers responsible for spacecraft customer missions from formulation through launch and flight operations. Provides technical and programmatic oversight, manages mission requirements, interfaces, risks, schedules, testing, and customer commitments, and supports complex multidisciplinary decisions. Partners across engineering, program management, operations, supply chain, contracts, and business development while improving mission-management processes, staffing, and execution standards.

Leads end-to-end execution of $1M–$20M+ capital projects, including rocket test stands, launch sites, and test infrastructure. Serves as technical arbiter across engineering disciplines, manages scope, schedules, budgets, risks, contractors, and cross-functional teams, and drives design reviews through commissioning. Reviews technical deliverables, coordinates instrumentation and safety systems, communicates with executives, and ensures compliance with aerospace, construction, and safety standards. Travel to project sites and support for critical milestones are required.

Lead enterprise HSE programs across aerospace manufacturing, testing, and launch operations. Manage HSE personnel, regulatory compliance, hazard controls, environmental programs, incident investigations, emergency preparedness, training, and safety culture. Provide oversight for cryogenic, hypergolic, high-pressure, energetic, and other hazardous operations while coordinating with engineering, manufacturing, test, launch, quality, and regulatory stakeholders across multiple sites.

Designs, validates, and operates guidance, navigation, and control systems for launch and hypersonic vehicles. Responsibilities include developing flight software and simulations, analyzing trajectories and vehicle dynamics, tuning attitude-control algorithms, conducting hardware-in-the-loop testing, optimizing missions, supporting launch operations, processing flight data, and collaborating across aerospace disciplines. Requires aerospace-related engineering knowledge, Python, C++, and experience with flight mechanics, dynamic-system modeling, and GNC development.

Develop and integrate critical C++ platform software, firmware, SDK components, libraries, APIs, and onboard applications for spacecraft systems. Work with embedded Linux, sensors, cameras, hardware buses, networking, multithreaded software, and heterogeneous compute platforms. Support perception integration, simulation, hardware and software testing, spacecraft integration, mission operations, system-level debugging, architecture decisions, technical reviews, and engineering mentorship.

Lead cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, build tooling, release management, testing pipelines, and data infrastructure for aerospace software teams. Develop reproducible workflows spanning firmware, spacecraft software, ground systems, and cloud services. Manage versioned datasets, ML training infrastructure, cloud reliability, security, and cost. Partner with engineering and mission operations teams, resolve complex system issues, contribute to architecture, and mentor engineers. The role may be onsite in Austin or Littleton, or remote with regular travel to Austin.

Leads a multi-shift composites manufacturing organization producing aerospace structures and components. Responsibilities include developing supervisors and technicians, managing safety and quality, maintaining production schedules, improving throughput through lean practices, establishing KPIs, coordinating with engineering, quality, planning, and supply chain, and developing long-term capacity plans for tooling, clean rooms, and curing equipment.

Develop, validate, and operate spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control systems. Responsibilities include tuning flight algorithms, performing six-degree-of-freedom simulations, modeling sensors and actuators, conducting stability and hardware-in-the-loop testing, supporting mission operations, analyzing flight data, integrating software with spacecraft hardware, and documenting technical results.

Designs, validates, and operates spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control systems. Responsibilities include developing flight and simulation software, tuning GNC algorithms, performing six-degree-of-freedom analyses, modeling sensors and actuators, conducting stability and hardware-in-the-loop testing, integrating software with spacecraft hardware, supporting mission operations, and producing technical documentation.

Own software project planning, integrated schedules, risk tracking, resource planning, metrics, and program documentation across Firefly launch vehicle programs. Coordinate Flight Software, Ground Software, GNC, hardware, test engineering, and vehicle program teams. Facilitate Agile ceremonies, manage dependencies and milestones, support design reviews and qualification testing, and drive technical and programmatic issues to closure using Jira and Confluence.

Designs and leads spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control systems, including attitude control software, orbital maneuvering, descent and landing control laws, stability analysis, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. Provides technical direction for ADCS architecture, integrates flight software with spacecraft hardware, supports console operations and post-mission analysis, resolves complex control challenges, establishes validation standards, and mentors junior engineers.

Executes aerospace component test plans, integrates hardware with fluid and data systems, develops automated test scripts, analyzes test data, and troubleshoots anomalies. The role supports test stand validation, upgrades, process improvements, and safe, timely operations for valves, mechanisms, COPVs, and other flight components. It requires hands-on engineering experience, fluid systems knowledge, CAD proficiency, instrumentation and data acquisition familiarity, and the ability to work on-site and occasionally on second shift.

Leads spacecraft systems engineering across design, fabrication, testing, launch, and mission operations. Owns system architectures, requirements, interfaces, technical budgets, verification plans, design reviews, risk management, and configuration control. Resolves test failures and nonconformances while coordinating hardware, software, manufacturing, integration, and operations teams. Supports offsite testing and lunar mission operations, including extended shifts. Requires deep interdisciplinary aerospace expertise and extensive spacecraft lifecycle experience.