Jobs at Firestorm

Design, build, secure, and operate Crucible’s cloud infrastructure across commercial cloud, GovCloud, on-premise, and air-gapped environments. Responsibilities include Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, networking, identity and security controls, CI/CD, observability, distributed-system debugging, deployment tooling, and infrastructure reliability. The role partners with software teams to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable, secure platform solutions.

Build automated end-to-end tests, frameworks, harnesses, services, and infrastructure for autonomous aircraft software across SIL, HIL, and VIL environments. Automate release testing, orchestration, data collection, analysis, and reporting; debug failures across software, networking, hardware, and simulation; expand system coverage; and integrate testing into CI/CD and release workflows.

Build and improve platform security for software operating across cloud, factory, edge, and air-gapped environments. Responsibilities include implementing identity, access control, secrets management, data protection, and system boundaries; hardening Kubernetes, Linux, cloud, and edge deployments; securing software supply chains; automating CI/CD security controls; conducting threat modeling and vulnerability remediation; and supporting accreditation through technical controls, evidence, and system designs.

Design, analyze, prototype, test, and support production of mechanical and electromechanical components for UAV systems. Responsibilities include aircraft structural analysis, SolidWorks CAD modeling, engineering drawings, GD&T, FEA, hand calculations, DFM, rapid prototyping, hardware integration, troubleshooting, configuration management, and collaboration with electrical, manufacturing, and flight-test teams.

Build and own the Linux-based edge platform powering factory, deployable, and air-gapped Crucible environments. Responsibilities include system provisioning, networking, security, updates, recovery, device lifecycle management, hardware and peripheral integrations, disconnected operation, fleet management, and full-stack debugging across applications, operating systems, networks, and physical equipment. The role also partners on edge-to-cloud architecture, deployment topology, and system security.

Build end-to-end manufacturing software for Crucible, covering MES, MRP, production planning, inventory, supply chain, data models, APIs, frontends, testing, and rollout. Design workflows for work orders, BOMs, routings, scheduling, capacity, and production state. Collaborate directly with factory, manufacturing, supply chain, product, and engineering teams to convert operational needs into production-ready capabilities across cloud, edge, and classified environments.

Leads the Software Test and Automation engineering team for autonomous aircraft software. Owns integration and release test planning, coverage, defect management, reporting, automated execution, and SIL, HIL, and VIL validation environments. Develops the testing capability roadmap, improves infrastructure and automation, partners across software and flight-test functions to resolve integration risks, and hires and develops engineers.

Build and productionize applied AI and machine learning capabilities for Crucible, including LLM workflows, retrieval, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and model-serving systems. Integrate optimization and forecasting models into reliable products, select models for constrained cloud, air-gapped, and edge environments, and establish technical standards for production AI. Collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, data science, software engineering, and product teams to deliver measurable operational value.

Leads customer success, operational readiness, deployment planning, sustainment strategy, and relationship management for defense and government customers. Coordinates engineering, logistics, manufacturing, training, and support teams; assesses operational risks; prioritizes escalations; gathers customer feedback; and recommends improvements. Represents Firestorm during deployments, exercises, demonstrations, and testing events, with limited technical and field support as needed. Travel is 40–60%, including domestic and international defense deployments.

Build and own Crucible’s backend for production planning and execution across cloud, factory, and disconnected classified environments. Design services, APIs, data models, workflows, integrations, synchronization, reconciliation, and failure recovery. Improve reliability, performance, observability, and testing while partnering on architecture and mentoring engineers. The role requires solving complex distributed-state and consistency problems for manufacturing systems.

Lead engineering for Crucible, a production software platform coordinating manufacturing across cloud, factory, edge, and classified environments. Own technical execution, architecture, integrations with PLM, ERP, quality, and test systems, roadmap delivery, production operations, and engineering standards. Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and product teams to address factory-floor needs. Stay hands-on with design, code reviews, and implementation while hiring, developing, and leading the engineering team.

Own the optimization and decision science capabilities for Crucible, Firestorm’s manufacturing planning software. Develop production, sourcing, inventory, scheduling, allocation, and network optimization models; address uncertainty; validate and deploy production-ready solutions; and collaborate with software, manufacturing, supply chain, and product teams. Set technical direction, establish modeling standards, and build the foundation for future data science efforts.

Own Firestorm’s business development, customer engagement, capture, and growth strategy across SOCOM and CENTCOM. Build account plans, identify and capture sUAS and contested-logistics opportunities, manage pipelines and forecasts, translate mission requirements into technical concepts, and drive opportunities through OTA, CSO, SOFWERX, DIU, AFWERX, and traditional contracting pathways. Develop relationships with operators and acquisition leaders, build industry partnerships, support proposals and executive communications, and represent the company at defense industry events. Travel, including occasional OCONUS travel, is required.

Lead Firestorm’s Navy and Marine Corps business development, capture, and proposal activities. Develop engagement strategies, identify and qualify defense opportunities, shape acquisition and teaming strategies, manage stakeholder relationships, and guide pursuits through contract award. Translate technical capabilities into mission-focused value propositions, ensure FAR/DFARS compliance, maintain pipeline documentation, track performance metrics, and represent the company at industry and customer events. The role requires extensive federal defense experience, an active Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and 30–50% travel.

Own optimization algorithms for scheduling, resource allocation, constraint satisfaction, and conflict resolution. Build analytics for defects, yield, throughput, and manufacturing intelligence. Productionize optimization and ML systems, integrate and fine-tune LLMs for cloud, air-gapped, and edge environments, and partner with manufacturing, quality, and planning experts to model operational constraints.

Leads explosive safety and live-fire range operations for unmanned aircraft, energetic payloads, and deployable combat systems. Establishes safety policies, hazard controls, range packages, SOPs, training, emergency procedures, and compliance documentation. Serves as an independent operational authority with stop-work authority, coordinating with engineering, test, manufacturing, government, military, commercial range, and supplier stakeholders. Supports test readiness, explosive incident investigations, munition integration, and safe execution in remote and austere environments.

Owns released electrical hardware across its lifecycle, including PCB and system-level changes, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, ECR/ECO execution, configuration control, verification testing, component qualification, production support, and field sustainment. The role drives improvements in reliability, manufacturability, testability, serviceability, cost, and electrical integration while collaborating with engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, support, software, mechanical, test, and suppliers.

Manage end-to-end proposal development for federal and defense pursuits, including planning, compliance matrices, writing, reviews, pricing narratives, and go/no-go decisions. Partner with business development, capture, engineering, legal, finance, and technical experts to produce persuasive, compliant proposals and supporting documentation. Manage concurrent RFPs, RFIs, white papers, and technical manuals while improving processes, templates, content libraries, tools, and documentation workflows. Support user-focused manuals, procedures, checklists, troubleshooting guides, and release notes.

Manage day-to-day IT security operations (Azure GCC High, Entra ID, Intune, Sentinel, Defender), endpoint management, user/admin account management, and first-line support across Windows/Mac/Linux. Serve as the facility security point of contact for FCL/FSO matters, personnel security processing, classified/CUI handling, insider threat monitoring, security training, and compliance with NIST SP 800-171, DFARS, and CMMC.

The Manufacturing Engineer, NPI supports the transition of designs into production, develops processes, and spends time on the production floor solving real-time problems. Responsibilities include DFM/DFA analysis, developing work instructions, designing fixtures, and supporting First Article Inspections, among other duties to enhance production efficiency.