Jobs at WARDSTONE, INC.

MBA Intern supporting defense-tech strategy, financial planning and analysis, DoD customer engagement, government proposals, defense market research, acquisition pathway analysis, and strategic partnerships. The role includes outreach to prime contractors, preparation of briefings and whitepapers, participation in customer discussions, and potential travel to military bases and conferences.

Own full-cycle recruiting for 15+ engineering, technician, and operations roles. Source candidates through LinkedIn, referrals, universities, and industry events; partner with hiring managers; screen and coordinate interviews; manage feedback and offers; support onboarding; verify U.S. person status and clearance-related steps; maintain the ATS; report recruiting metrics; and build the company’s recruiting brand through job postings and campus outreach.

Owns scheduling, dependencies, risks, decisions, status meetings, design reviews, test readiness, and cross-team coordination for a complex aerospace engineering program from design through flight testing. Coordinates procurement, test ranges, facilities, government contract milestones, deliverables, reporting, and project-tracking processes while escalating blockers and maintaining alignment across engineering teams and founders.

Designs, fabricates, assembles, and tests mechanical structures and mechanisms for aerospace interceptors. Responsibilities include CAD modeling, engineering drawings with GD&T, structural calculations, FEA, vendor and machine-shop coordination, in-house fabrication, hardware integration, test fixture design, environmental testing, and improving designs based on test data.

Build and scale the company’s defense supply chain from prototype sourcing through low-rate production. Responsibilities include qualifying and negotiating with suppliers, securing long-lead components, managing supply risks, supporting make-versus-buy decisions, developing sourcing and cost models, ensuring FAR/DFARS and ITAR compliance, establishing supplier quality requirements, and implementing scalable purchasing, inventory, and supplier-management processes.

Design, build, and test solid rocket motor components for interceptor platforms. Responsibilities include CAD modeling, engineering drawings, propulsion analyses, static-fire and pressure testing, instrumentation, data acquisition, test-data analysis, vendor coordination, safety procedures for energetic materials, motor integration, and flight-test support.

Manage day-to-day purchasing, vendor coordination, receiving, shipping, inventory, test campaign logistics, and facility operations. The role includes tracking purchase orders, maintaining supplies, coordinating hardware shipments and travel, supporting test-range access, managing facility needs, assisting employee onboarding, and maintaining ITAR and security procedures.

Own interceptor aerodynamics from outer mold line design through wind tunnel and flight testing. Build and maintain aerodynamic databases for 6DOF simulations, conduct supersonic and transonic analyses using CFD and engineering tools, evaluate stability, control, heating, loads, and propulsion interactions, and correlate models with test and flight data.

Leads a mechanical engineering team responsible for interceptor airframes, structures, mechanisms, launcher interfaces, CAD assemblies, and structural analysis. Owns designs from concept through ground testing and live flight, coordinating with propulsion, aerodynamics, controls, and electrical teams. Manages materials, vendors, manufacturing quality, structural and environmental testing, technical risks, schedules, and engineering standards. Hands-on shop and test work is expected.

Own structural and mechanical interceptor subsystems from concept through flight hardware. Perform structural, vibration, shock, thermal, hand-calculation, and FEA analyses; create production-ready CAD and GD&T drawings; select aerospace materials; collaborate across engineering teams; work with vendors and machine shops; design fixtures and conduct environmental and structural testing; build hardware hands-on; and mentor junior engineers.

Engineering interns support space and missile-defense systems across simulation, modeling, hardware prototyping, embedded software, controls, sensing, data analysis, trade studies, design reviews, and field testing. They work directly with founders and engineers on flight hardware and real-world system development.

Design and own guidance, navigation, and control systems for high-speed interceptors. Develop guidance laws, flight-control loops, actuator models, state-estimation and sensor-fusion pipelines, and high-fidelity 6DOF simulations. Build embedded real-time GNC software, conduct hardware-in-the-loop and ground intercept testing, and analyze Monte Carlo and worst-case results. Collaborate with sensing, perception, propulsion, actuation, embedded, and vehicle-design teams to deliver reliable autopilot performance.

Owns radar seeker system development from RF front-end and antenna integration through real-time signal processing, sensor fusion, target tracking, and interceptor guidance interfaces. Responsibilities include developing Doppler, CFAR, range-Doppler, clutter, and ECM rejection algorithms; integrating radar hardware and high-speed interfaces; building RF test rigs; and conducting hardware-in-the-loop verification using anechoic chambers, radar scene generators, and flight dynamics models.

Designs, analyzes, prototypes, tests, and integrates propulsion and dispersal hardware for high-acceleration aerospace systems. Responsibilities include solid rocket motor and grain design, internal ballistics, combustion and thermal analysis, high-pressure hardware, valves, sensors, impulse-transfer mechanisms, CFD/CEA/FEA modeling, static fires, pressure and thermal testing, instrumentation, qualification, and cross-functional system integration. The role requires hands-on energetic-materials and propulsion test experience, strict safety compliance, and ownership from concept through qualification.