Jobs at Space Kinetic Corp.

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Lead government-focused business development across DoD, Space Force, USAF, and Intelligence Community. Build pipelines, capture plans, customer relationships, proposals, and partnerships; coordinate cross-functional teams through proposal, negotiation, and contract award. Provide market intelligence and strategic recommendations to leadership.

Manage full-cycle technical recruiting for engineering, manufacturing, and operations roles. Source passive candidates, build pipelines, conduct screens, partner with hiring managers, maintain ATS records in Greenhouse, and support employer branding and recruiting events.

Coordinate machining operations and production schedules, manage customer interactions, prepare quotes, and oversee vendor coordination to ensure efficient manufacturing processes.

Set up and operate multi-axis CNC mills and lathes for prototype and short-run production. Perform tooling, offsets, workholding, prove-outs, and G-code troubleshooting. Machine tight-tolerance aerospace parts, interpret blueprints/GD&T, inspect and finish parts, maintain machines, manage chips, and collaborate with engineers to improve processes and ensure safe shop operations.

The GNC Engineer leads subsystem development, designs algorithms for flight software, conducts simulations, and manages schedules, ensuring requirements are met for space applications.

The Project Manager will lead and coordinate aerospace hardware development projects, ensuring effective communication among technical teams and delivering project goals against customer requirements.

Lead full-cycle technical recruiting for engineering and leadership roles in aerospace and defense. Source, engage, and close specialized candidates; partner with hiring managers to define requirements; build pipelines and metrics; represent the company at industry events; and manage recruiting operations through offer acceptance and onboarding.

Support procurement, supplier management, material planning, and inventory for engineering and manufacturing. Create and track purchase orders, manage suppliers, resolve shortages, maintain ERP inventory records, assist receiving/reconciliation, source prototype and production components, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

The Electrical Engineer will design and build prototypes, refine electrical designs, test systems, and collaborate with other engineering teams to mature a flight-ready technology.

The CNC Programmer & Machinist will manufacture parts for rapid prototyping, program CNC mills and lathes, and support the engineering team.

The Proposal Writer will lead proposal development for government and commercial contracts, ensuring compliance and effective communication of complex concepts, while collaborating with technical teams.

Lead hands-on integration and system-level testing of space hardware and software. Develop and execute integration/test plans, troubleshoot interfaces, analyze test data, produce reports, build automated test procedures and MGSE/EGSE, and support verification, validation, and customer acceptance activities.

The Flight Software Engineer will design, develop, and maintain software systems for satellite operations, ensuring reliable performance in challenging environments. Responsibilities include integration and testing in various environments and collaboration with engineering teams to establish software requirements.

The Senior Mechanism Simulation Engineer will design, analyze, and test prototype and flight hardware for space operations while optimizing mechanism designs and conducting validation tests.

The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer designs space-rated mechanisms, prototypes, and testing, ensuring functionality, performance, and manufacturability in a fast-paced startup environment.

The Chief Systems Engineer will lead complex space programs, ensuring technical excellence in space system design, mission planning, and integration with a focus on performance and safety.

The Principal Embedded Software Engineer designs and implements software for embedded systems, overseeing the development process from concept to production, and ensuring quality and performance in high-stakes projects.

Design, build, and mature mixed-signal electrical prototypes for a space-grade motor controller and electromechanical system. Responsibilities include analog and digital circuit design, PCB and component selection, test and validation, vendor coordination, documentation (BOMs, ICDs, test procedures), and cross-functional integration to advance prototypes toward a 2-year flight demonstration.

Hands-on engineer for bring-up, testing, debugging, and validation of circuit cards and electronics assemblies for spacecraft. Develop and execute test plans, troubleshoot with lab equipment, support environmental and qualification testing, design test fixtures and harnesses, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and drive hardware from prototype through system-level integration and production readiness.