Jobs at Quantum Space

Develop and execute fluid systems, piping network, and CFD analyses for spacecraft propulsion systems. Perform trade studies, modeling, simulations, anomaly investigations, root-cause analysis, and technical documentation. Collaborate across propulsion, mechanical, systems, manufacturing, test, and flight operations teams while supporting design reviews, hardware development, testing, and flight readiness activities.

Develop and qualify spacecraft propulsion hardware, including propellant tanks, pumps, and fluid systems. Perform engineering analysis, trade studies, testing, integration, anomaly investigation, and root-cause analysis across the product lifecycle. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on manufacturing, environmental testing, launch campaigns, technical reviews, and flight readiness for national security, civil, and commercial space missions.

Manage full-cycle recruiting across technical and business functions, including engineering, manufacturing, mission operations, program management, and corporate roles. Partner with hiring managers, source passive candidates, build talent pipelines, screen applicants, coordinate interviews, advise on talent markets and compensation, and deliver an exceptional candidate experience. Represent the company at recruiting events while meeting hiring metrics and supporting rapid organizational growth.

Leads development, integration, and operational support of spacecraft ground software for testing, mission operations, command and telemetry workflows. Builds distributed systems, APIs, microservices, data pipelines, dashboards, monitoring, and automation. Supports spacecraft and subsystem integration, anomaly investigations, system resiliency, security, performance, CI/CD, and operational tooling. Collaborates with mission operations and engineering teams, owns portions of ground architecture, and mentors junior and mid-level engineers.

Lead astrodynamics and navigation efforts across spacecraft mission lifecycles, including trajectory design, orbit determination, maneuver planning, mission analysis, navigation architecture, simulations, and on-orbit operations. Develop flight dynamics tools, perform spacecraft performance analyses, support anomaly investigations, and collaborate with GNC, propulsion, flight software, communications, systems engineering, and mission operations teams for LEO, MEO, GEO, and cislunar missions.

Leads technical solution development for strategic space and aerospace pursuits. Translates customer requirements into mission architectures, CONOPS, technical approaches, and differentiated solutions. Conducts trade studies, analyzes risks, develops proposal content, supports customer engagements, and guides multidisciplinary teams across defense, intelligence, civil, and commercial space opportunities. Collaborates with engineering, capture, program, business development, and executive stakeholders to create executable, customer-focused solutions.

Administers enterprise IT systems, software, networks, cloud infrastructure, hardware, and cybersecurity systems. Manages asset lifecycles, operating systems, infrastructure as code, automation, identity integrations, virtualization, containerization, CI/CD, troubleshooting, and technical documentation. Coordinates IT and infrastructure initiatives with engineering programs and external partners while supporting secure, reliable business operations.

Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes; oversee project and government contract accounting; support SEC reporting, SOX controls, audits, and FAR, CAS, and DCAA compliance. Manage indirect rates, incurred cost submissions, revenue recognition, financial reporting, process improvements, and accounting team development. Partner with finance, contracts, operations, program teams, auditors, and executives while supporting strategic initiatives and maintaining accurate U.S. GAAP reporting.

Develop and lead persuasive federal proposal content for national security, civil, and commercial space pursuits. Create win themes, strategic messaging, storyboards, executive summaries, technical narratives, and content plans. Translate complex aerospace and technical concepts into customer-focused messaging, collaborate with capture managers and subject matter experts, support proposal reviews, mentor writers, and maintain content libraries and best practices across multiple concurrent pursuits.

Own the end-to-end spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control subsystem across multiple programs. Lead GNC architecture, attitude and orbit control design, estimation, simulations, verification, flight software integration, telemetry analysis, anomaly resolution, and mission operations support. Define control laws for high-Delta-V maneuvering, precision pointing, station-keeping, and proximity operations. Mentor engineers and serve as the technical authority in system reviews and spacecraft development.

Lead spacecraft software architecture and systems engineering for Ranger spacecraft across development, integration, mission execution, and on-orbit operations. Manage requirements, interfaces, verification, technical baselines, architecture trade studies, and system validation. Collaborate across flight and ground software, autonomy, GNC, communications, avionics, and spacecraft teams. Support mission planning, operational readiness, technical reviews, customer presentations, and complex issue resolution while mentoring engineers and contributing to software integration and development.

Lead end-to-end federal proposal efforts from RFP release through submission. Coordinate technical, pricing, contracts, executive, and business development stakeholders; manage schedules, compliance matrices, reviews, production, quality assurance, risks, and competing priorities. Develop content strategies, win themes, processes, templates, and best practices for large-scale national security, civil, commercial, aerospace, and defense pursuits.

Develop and validate spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control capabilities across mission analysis, simulation, algorithm development, flight software integration, hardware testing, verification, telemetry analysis, and on-orbit support. Responsibilities include attitude and orbit control, state estimation, sensor fusion, autonomous maneuver planning, fault management, hardware specification, acceptance testing, and cross-functional collaboration with avionics, software, systems, vendors, and mission operations teams.

Lead strategic capture efforts across federal, national security, civil, and commercial space markets. Identify and shape opportunities, build customer and partner relationships, develop account and capture plans, coordinate technical solutions and proposals, support pricing and teaming strategies, and drive pursuits through contract award. The role works closely with engineering, program, finance, executive, and proposal teams while advising stakeholders on market trends, customer priorities, and growth opportunities.

Supports spacecraft hardware build, integration, and test operations by developing inspection procedures, verifying conformity to engineering documentation, investigating nonconformances, and driving RCCA/CAPA. Performs and monitors inspections and environmental tests, ensures compliance with cleanroom, contamination, ESD, lifting, and hazardous-operation controls, maintains calibration compliance, and supports internal, customer, and government audits. Partners cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, and test teams to improve process quality and mission reliability.

Perform reliability and mission assurance analyses for spacecraft and supporting systems, including FMEA/FMECA, FTA, reliability predictions, physics-of-failure evaluations, parts reliability, and risk assessments. Influence spacecraft architecture, hardware design, supplier selection, redundancy, and component choices. Support environmental qualification, life testing, failure investigations, and verification activities while maintaining technical documentation. Develop reliability processes within an AS9100 Rev D quality system and collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role requires experience with flight hardware or similarly high-reliability aerospace systems and U.S. person status.