Jobs at Kraken Kinetics

Own and grow B2B industry accounts, develop opportunities, support proposals and partnership agreements, coordinate cross-functional execution, and monitor account and deal performance. The role manages strategic relationships with OEMs, integrators, and partners in the UxS sector, contributes market insights to product and commercial strategy, ensures contractual and export-control compliance, and represents the company at partner meetings and industry events.

Manage government accounts and relationships across the U.S. government and Department of War. Coordinate proposals, solicitations, contract deliverables, demonstrations, testing, deployments, and cross-functional initiatives. Track program status, risks, feedback, opportunities, and account activity while ensuring compliance with contracting, reporting, and export-control requirements. Represent the company at industry events and customer engagements, supporting growth in defense, autonomy, and unmanned systems markets.

Owns CRM architecture, governance, data integrity, dashboards, reporting, and adoption for the Strategic Partnerships department. Coordinates customer training, demonstrations, conferences, visits, travel, equipment, calendars, and cross-functional support. Supports pipeline reviews, forecasting, opportunity assessments, leadership updates, and departmental reporting while identifying bottlenecks and implementing scalable workflows. Partners across government relations, industry relations, finance, compliance, production, and other teams in an on-site defense technology environment.

Owns weekly multi-state payroll, benefits administration, leave programs, open enrollment, and ADP Workforce Now administration. Responsibilities include payroll audits, tax filings, reconciliations, compliance, employee records, carrier coordination, year-end reporting, and DCAA-compliant timekeeping controls. The role serves as the primary employee contact for pay, benefits, and leave while building scalable processes, reports, SOPs, and audit-ready documentation for a growing defense manufacturer.

Owns subcontracting and supplier agreements for a defense manufacturer. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating contracts, implementing FAR/DFARS flowdowns, managing representations and certifications, allocating commercial and legal risk, supporting supplier disputes, and building contracting playbooks and processes. The role partners with Supply Chain, Program Management, Engineering, Finance, Business Development, and Export Compliance while advising leadership on material risks.

Develop and execute electrical, mechanical, firmware, environmental, subsystem, and integrated system testing across the product lifecycle. Translate requirements into verification methods, build fixtures and instrumentation, automate data acquisition and analysis, troubleshoot failures, document results, and improve test repeatability. Collaborate across systems, mechanical, electrical, firmware, manufacturing, and program teams while helping establish scalable verification processes and transition engineering methods into production acceptance testing.

Develop and manage system requirements, architectures, interfaces, verification strategies, technical baselines, and engineering documentation for advanced defense products. Collaborate across mechanical, electrical, firmware, test, manufacturing, and program teams. Mature systems engineering processes and implement Jama Connect requirements workflows, traceability, reviews, baselines, and templates. Mentor junior engineers and support design, test, production, compliance, and technical reviews.

The Safety Manager will lead safety and compliance initiatives across multiple locations, develop safety programs, manage hazard assessments, and drive operational safety compliance.

Lead and maintain the U.S. export compliance program: classify products under ITAR/EAR, manage licenses and TAAs/MLAs, perform end-user and sanctions screening, oversee deemed export controls and TCPs, deliver training, maintain audit-ready records, and provide cross-functional compliance advisory support.

Design and release multilayer PCBs for digital, analog, mixed-signal, power, and safety-critical defense electronics. Collaborate with electrical and mechanical engineers on schematics, routing, board constraints, and packaging. Maintain footprints, symbols, libraries, and ECAD documentation; produce fabrication and assembly packages; support DFM, DFT, DFA, ECOs, configuration-controlled releases, and manufacturing vendor coordination. Help establish PCB layout standards and improve ECAD workflows.

Design, develop, and integrate embedded electrical systems and PCBs for defense products. Lead schematic and PCB layout, perform signal integrity, power and thermal design, testing, failure analysis, and field support. Mentor junior engineers, maintain documentation and revision control, ensure compliance with MIL-STDs and industry standards, and support prototyping and qualification.

Perform PCB layout for digital, analog, mixed-signal, power, and safety-critical electronics. Create and maintain footprints and libraries, produce fabrication/assembly outputs, support DFM/DFT/DFA, work with engineers and vendors, participate in design reviews, manage ECOs and configuration-controlled releases, and help establish ECAD standards and workflows.