Jobs at Inversion Space

The Staff Special Projects Engineer will develop advanced hypersonic and reentry vehicle systems, leading design, modeling, and testing in a fast-paced environment with minimal oversight.

As a Senior Flight Software Engineer, you'll design and implement software for spacecraft, manage testing processes, and mentor other engineers. This role involves working on critical software components from concept to deployment in a dynamic environment.

You will integrate and develop electronics hardware for simulation workflows, design custom PCBs, conduct testing, and write embedded software.

As a Mechanical Engineer II, you'll design and develop systems for precision landing of reentry vehicles, oversee testing, and collaborate with teams for hardware integration.

The Senior Executive Assistant will support the CTO and executive leadership, manage schedules, coordinate meetings and travel, and handle confidential information while driving operational efficiency.

Lead the development of mission products and payload integration, overseeing product roadmap, customer engagement, and managing a multidisciplinary engineering team to ensure successful integration of payloads into aerospace vehicles.

The Test Engineer II will lead and coordinate flight tests for re-entry vehicles, developing test equipment and procedures, ensuring safety and logistics.

Build the People function from scratch: run onboarding/offboarding, benefits administration, employee relations and investigations, California and federal contractor compliance, performance management, engagement programs, HRIS (Gusto) administration, headcount reporting, and partner with leadership. Start as an individual contributor and grow into a manager within 12–24 months.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer will design and develop mechanical systems for accurate landing of spacecraft, leading projects from concept to integration while collaborating with cross-functional teams and ensuring manufacturability.

Design, implement, and verify safety-critical real-time flight software for a hypersonic reentry vehicle. Own state machines, autonomy, and FDIR logic; integrate GNC modules; perform low-level driver and board bring-up; develop SIL/HIL test suites; participate in code reviews and mentor junior engineers; collaborate with systems and avionics on ICDs, telemetry, and communications.

Develop and maintain ground control software, telemetry parsers, real-time operator displays, and backend systems for vehicle testing and missions. Build telemetry pipelines, serialization/protocol definitions, time-series storage, HIL/SIL automation, and ground station interfaces. Provide real-time software support during integrated vehicle tests.

Manage and lead the Arc Vehicle Software team to deliver flight and ground control software. Own software release cycles, integrate GNC/autonomy into flight software, design vehicle state machines, fault protection, and telemetry. Oversee SIL/HIL testing, test automation, real-time debugging, and rapid issue resolution during assembly, environmental test, and flight operations.

Develop, test, and deploy high-reliability, low-latency embedded flight software for avionics. Implement device drivers for serial and network protocols, perform hardware bring-up and debugging with lab instruments, validate code via SIL/HIL, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with flight software and simulation teams for vehicle autonomy and telemetry integration.

Lead end-to-end electrical wire harness design and 3D routing for a hypersonic reentry vehicle. Produce 2D manufacturing drawings, select components, perform trade studies on shielding/grounding/wire sizing, author fabrication and inspection procedures, provide hands-on manufacturing support, solve packaging/thermal/EMI challenges, establish harness standards, and mentor junior engineers and technicians.

Develop, test, and verify vehicle-level autonomy, flight sequencing, and fault-management logic. Implement state machines and mission routines, run SIL/HIL simulations, write unit/integration tests, analyze telemetry, and document autonomy logic while collaborating with systems, GNC, and avionics teams.

Lead architecture and development of high-reliability embedded flight software for a hypersonic reentry vehicle. Integrate multi-rate GNC algorithms, define hardware-software boundaries, drive board bring-up and low-level debugging, build SIL/HIL test suites, establish embedded C++ standards, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating on telemetry and hardware interfaces.

Design, integrate, and verify flight and ground RF/telemetry systems for reentry vehicles. Perform link budgets, antenna radiation modeling, component selection, lab and vehicle-level RF testing, ground station setup, regulatory support, and environmental qualification across reentry conditions.

Lead system-level design and integration for a hypersonic reentry vehicle. Drive cross-subsystem trade studies, manage interface control documents, own requirements flow-down and verification, maintain mass/volume budgets, and lead root-cause investigations during integration and testing.

Develop, automate, and maintain spacecraft simulation and test environments (SIL/HIL). Integrate GNC, aerodynamics, and sensor models; build data pipelines, visualization, automated tests, and maintain HPC and testbed infrastructure to verify flight software and hardware.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop ground software systems for space vehicles, manage command and control operations, and mentor team members.