Jobs at Karman Space & Defense

The Human Resources Generalist supports recruitment, employee relations, benefits, payroll administration, compliance, workers’ compensation, performance management, and employee engagement. Responsibilities include administering benefit programs, maintaining HR records, supporting payroll and HRIS updates, managing ADA and FMLA matters, coordinating recruitment and terminations, maintaining SOX documentation, and assisting with policies and employee communications. The role requires regular on-site interaction with employees in manufacturing and production environments.

Supports customer program execution by coordinating cross-functional activities, maintaining schedules and documentation, tracking budgets and milestones, monitoring progress, escalating issues, and participating in stakeholder meetings. The role helps ensure project objectives, timelines, customer requirements, and financial resources are managed effectively throughout the program lifecycle. Blueprint interpretation, communication, organization, problem-solving, and customer interaction are required.

Leads treasury operations including cash positioning, forecasting, liquidity management, bank administration, payments, reconciliations, credit card programs, and internal controls. Partners with finance and business stakeholders to improve cash forecasting, ensure SOX compliance, establish procedures, and implement scalable process improvements. Requires 8+ years of accounting or treasury experience and strong knowledge of AR, AP, cash management, GAAP, and month-end close processes.

Leads manufacturing engineering across aerospace production lines, developing scalable processes, validating production readiness, optimizing tooling and automation, troubleshooting manufacturing issues, maintaining controlled documentation, supporting audits and corrective actions, and managing manufacturing engineering staff. Partners with Design Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Supply Chain to improve manufacturability, production flow, safety, quality, delivery, and productivity during prototype-to-full-rate production transitions.

Provides financial leadership for manufacturing operations through budgeting, forecasting, cost analysis, variance analysis, reporting, capital expenditure planning, and process improvement. Partners with Operations, Supply Chain, Program Management, Accounting, and Finance to support cost control, pricing, capacity planning, make-versus-buy decisions, and leadership decision-making. Ensures compliance with financial controls, accounting requirements, SOX, and related reporting processes.

Leads technical execution for aerospace composite programs from development through production. Develops manufacturing plans, layup and cure strategies, tooling approaches, production documentation, and readiness milestones. Supports shop-floor execution, resolves composite defects and nonconformances, coordinates engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and suppliers, and interfaces with customers. Manages schedules, critical paths, scope changes, and Engineering Change Proposals while ensuring cost, schedule, dimensional, and technical objectives are met.

Leads supply chain, planning, production control, procurement, inventory, logistics, and supplier management for aerospace and defense programs. Develops strategy, oversees scheduling and material availability, manages supplier performance and operational KPIs, mitigates production risks, optimizes ERP/MRP processes, and drives continuous improvement. Leads cross-functional teams and develops personnel while ensuring customer requirements, quality standards, and on-time delivery.

Leads aerospace mechanical design and development from concept through qualification, including structures, mechanisms, calculations, tolerance analyses, CAD models, drawings, bills of materials, prototyping, testing, and customer presentations. Verifies engineering work, supports proposals, manages multiple design efforts, and mentors junior engineers. The role requires extensive aerospace or defense hardware design experience, SolidWorks and GD&T proficiency, and the ability to work independently across complex programs.

Leads mechanical design of aerospace structures, mechanisms, and flight-worthy systems from concept through qualification. Responsibilities include analyses, tolerance stack-ups, CAD modeling, drafting packages, bills of materials, prototyping, testing, proposal support, and mentoring junior engineers across multiple space and defense programs.

Leads company-wide marketing strategy and execution supporting business development and growth. Manages the marketing team, annual plan, budget, campaigns, trade shows, customer-facing materials, brand consistency, external agencies, and cross-functional initiatives. Develops content across brochures, presentations, videos, photography, websites, and collateral while measuring performance against business-aligned KPIs. Requires frequent collaboration with communications, business development, investor relations, and other stakeholders, with travel up to 40%.

Leads aerospace and defense programs from planning through qualification, production, delivery, and contract completion. Owns cost, schedule, technical, quality, contractual, and customer objectives while coordinating engineering, operations, supply chain, finance, contracts, testing, and other stakeholders. Manages risks, program reviews, deliverables, scope changes, customer interfaces, proposals, estimates, and contract negotiations for complex space and launch hardware programs.

Provides program-level technical oversight for aerospace and defense systems from concept through qualification. Leads system architecture, requirements decomposition, compliance verification, test planning, validation, interface documentation, and engineering reporting. Coordinates multidisciplinary design, analysis, integration, and testing activities while mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering standards. The role requires extensive aerospace or defense experience, systems engineering expertise, and knowledge of mechanical systems, structures, electronics, cabling, structural analysis, FEA, modeling, dynamics, materials, and qualification testing.

Serves as the company-wide technical authority for pyrotechnic mechanism design, including cutters, initiators, separation joints, and release systems. Leads development from concept through qualification and low-rate production, translating requirements into mechanical solutions, managing technical risks, defining design and test methods, and ensuring safety and compliance. Represents engineering with customers and regulators, supports proposals, and mentors engineers.

Leads the company’s international trade compliance program, overseeing export licenses, jurisdiction and classification determinations, transaction screening, training, investigations, disclosures, audits, and regulatory guidance. Supports Technology Control Plans, M&A due diligence, CFIUS and FOCI matters, and cross-functional compliance integration. Provides oversight to compliance staff and travels occasionally, including internationally.

Leads technical and cost-estimating activities for aerospace and defense proposals. Evaluates customer requirements, drawings, specifications, and bills of materials; develops manufacturing assumptions, labor and material estimates, tooling and outside-processing costs, risks, and basis-of-estimate documentation. Collaborates with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and Business Development to validate manufacturability, capacity, pricing, and production assumptions. Maintains Excel-based cost workbooks and supports customer technical discussions.

Develop and maintain production schedules and rolling forecasts for aerospace hardware. Coordinate capacity, materials, inventory, workflow, and priorities using MRP and ERP systems. Monitor production progress, identify constraints and bottlenecks, manage job releases, and drive corrective actions. Collaborate with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, and Project Management to support delivery commitments, accurate planning data, schedule recovery, and continuous process improvement.

Administers engineering data repositories and PDM systems, manages access, metadata, workflows, revisions, baselines, and document releases. Coordinates engineering, manufacturing, quality, and IT stakeholders to maintain accurate BOM and documentation relationships. Supports SolidWorks PDM migrations, vault reorganizations, workflow improvements, troubleshooting, and system usability enhancements in a technical aerospace and defense manufacturing environment.

Provides program-level technical oversight for aerospace structures, mechanisms, mechanical systems, and flight hardware. Leads systems engineering activities, architecture decisions, requirements decomposition, system analyses, test planning, documentation, and multidisciplinary coordination. Develops interface control documentation, supports engineering standards, presents technical information to customers, and mentors junior engineers while ensuring products meet technical and program requirements.

Leads mechanical design for aerospace and defense systems from concept through delivery. Develops 2D layouts, 3D models, calculations, drawings, bills of materials, and manufacturing specifications. Reviews junior engineers’ work, supports manufacturing, testing, quality assurance, and deployment, and evaluates designs for cost, manufacturability, and quality. Documents requirements and compliance evidence, provides technical customer support, contributes to business development, and mentors junior engineers.

Leads mechanical product development and verification testing for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities include creating test plans and reports, developing prototypes, collecting and analyzing data, supporting design verification, collaborating across engineering disciplines, contributing to proposals and customer engagement, and mentoring junior engineers. The role requires hands-on engineering expertise, SolidWorks and GD&T proficiency, instrumentation experience, and a current or obtainable DoD Secret clearance.