Vehicle Engineering owns the missile as a physical object from design through flight: structures, mechanical integration of the full subsystem stack, and the build.
About the RoleYou will own the fin control actuation system: motor sizing, gear train, mechanical design, servo control law, dyno characterization, hardware-in-the-loop integration, and environmental qualification. Drive electronics are designed by Avionics and embedded firmware by Avionics software, both to your spec; you close the loop with them on the bench. Hands-on from clean-sheet design through ground test and flight. For someone who has taken a tactical-class actuator from sizing through hardware-in-the-loop and flight, ideally on a missile, munition, or guided projectile.
What You'll DoOwn the fin actuation system across the F-series airframe: motor, gear train, output shaft, position sensor, and the servo control law that ties them together.Size the motor and gear train against aero hinge moments, slew rate, and stall torque across the Mach envelope. Defend bandwidth and authority against autopilot requirements.Spec the actuator drive electronics with Avionics: power stage, current sensing, position interface, and motor-bus partitioning.Spec the embedded servo firmware with Avionics software: current loop, position loop, command interface, and fault handling. Review the implementation and tune from the bench.Stand up the actuator dyno from zero: load fixture, instrumentation, automated test sequences, and frequency-response and step-response characterization.Run hardware-in-the-loop with the flight computer and GNC autopilot. Close the loop against the plant model and the integrated airframe.Own environmental qualification of the actuator stack: shock, vibration, temperature, humidity, and EMI.Take the subsystem from prototype through and flight, including post-flight teardown and data review.Make the cost call on every gear set, magnet, sensor, and connector. Pick the simplest part that meets the requirement.Skills We're Hiring ForB.S. in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or Mechatronics Engineering. M.S. preferred.7+ years owning electromechanical actuators from sizing through bench validation and integration, with at least one actuator taken through hardware-in-the-loop or flight.Hands-on mechanical design of compact actuators: motor selection, gear trains, output shafts, bearings, and packaging under aero and shock load.Fluency with brushless motor characteristics end-to-end: PMSM and BLDC, commutation, current control, and sensored or sensorless schemes.Servo-loop fluency: frequency response, bandwidth, phase margin, anti-windup, friction and backlash compensation. Can tune a real actuator, not only simulate one.Working fluency with motor-drive electronics and embedded servo firmware sufficient to spec requirements to Avionics and partner on tuning at the bench.MATLAB/Simulink or Python for plant modeling and controller design.Hands-on bench discipline: dyno setup, frequency-response characterization, fault injection, and environmental testing.Bonus Points ForDirect flight experience on a tactical missile, munition, interceptor, or guided projectile control actuation system.Hands-on experience writing motor-control firmware or designing motor drive boards. Useful for tuning the loop across the interface with Avionics.High-shock and high-vibration actuator qualification: launch loads, gun-launched munitions, or hard-impact events.Hinge-moment characterization or actuator-load modeling alongside an aerodynamicist.Production transition: moved an actuator from prototype to volume manufacturing, including factory acceptance test flow.Vendor management across the motor, magnet, gearing, sensor, and connector supply chain.Familiarity with insensitive munitions and tactical-missile qualification environments.Hobbyist drone, robotics, motorsport, or model-rocketry build and flight experience that translates to packaging and field-handling intuition.Eligibility & Logistics Location: On-site at our Los Angeles, CA HQ; remote work is not available. Monthly weekend travel for test events and supplier engagements. Clearance: A clearance is not required for this position. Must be a U.S. Person.
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Read LessThe Propulsion Team designs, builds, and flies the solid rocket motors that power our interceptor. We own the chemistry, the motor and grain design, the ground test campaigns, and the range operations.
About the RoleWe are looking for a manufacturing engineer who will own how every solid rocket motor we ship actually gets built. That covers process design, tooling and fixtures, work instructions, inspection and NDE, the energetics line layout, and the path from R&D builds to production. You will report to the Head of Propulsion.
This is a hands-on role for an engineer who can design a safe, efficient energetics production line from a clean sheet and then run it day to day in the early phase. When a decision needs to be made, bring real process options, tooling concepts, and the cost analysis to back them up, then move quickly.
LEAN is not a buzzword here. Every step we add to the build today we pay for sixty times over at qualification and again at production. The line you design has to be safe first, lean second, and capable of holding production cadence without redesign.
What You'll DoCapture the current 6-inch build process (already flying motors) into travelers, work instructions, and control plans.Lay out the Mojave build line. Safety first, throughput second.Design and procure the tooling and fixtures for both motor sizes.Build the inspection plan. Perform NDE on early articles; transition routine NDE to an external Level III provider as build rate scales.Run the energetic-materials build line: handle the propellant ingredient set, the energetic and hazardous precursor chemistry, and the mix-and-cure operations safely day to day. The Energetic Materials Engineer owns formulation and characterization; you own the line that builds with it. The safety culture on the line is yours to set and defend.Build and own the technical side of the motor-hardware supplier base. The Head of Supply Chain owns commercial terms. Feed DFM lessons back into the development engineer's design package.Skills We're Hiring ForB.S. in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Chemical, or Aerospace Engineering.5+ years hands-on manufacturing engineering on solid rocket motors or analogous hazardous-process manufacturing.Hands-on LEAN, 5S, and value-stream mapping with cost or throughput outcomes you can defend with numbers.Hands-on inspection and NDE experience.Hands-on safety record working with energetic and hazardous materials.Track record of taking a hand-built first article to a repeatable production article without losing performance margin.AI-native working style: daily use of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or similar) for traveler authoring, process-data analysis, and supplier-comparison work.Bonus Points For Direct solids build-floor experience.Stood up a remote or rural test and build site.Compliance experience for energetic operations (ATF, EPA, OSHA PSM, local AHJ).Volume transition: moved a tactical motor from prototype to production rate.Familiarity with insensitive munitions (IM) protocols.Out-of-domain background that gives you practical, first-principles intuition (automotive, motorsports, robotics, hobbyist high-power rocketry). We actively want people who can solve solid motor manufacturing problems without dragging legacy-prime habits with them.Eligibility & Logistics Location: On-site at our Los Angeles, CA HQ; remote work is not available. Monthly weekend travel for test events and supplier engagements. Clearance: A clearance is not required for this position. Must be a U.S. Person.
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Read LessThe Seeker Team builds the eyes and the targeting logic of our weapon system: a low-cost, mass-producible, multimodal missile seeker that leans on commercial supply chains where they outperform the defense legacy, with supply-chain security engineered in from day one. On a modern missile, the seeker is 40 to 60% of unit cost and often drives overly long delivery cycles; accordingly, the seeker team is at the tip of the spear for delivering value to our customers and to the taxpayer.
Seeker design has exactly two real constraints: physics and mission. Supply chain, vendor lead time, qualification cost, "the way it's always been done": none of that stops us. We are a small, deeply technical team that drives capability through ingenuity and bias for action and ships hardware that flies. This is a wear-many-hats environment where you must be comfortable "building the airplane in flight" and stepping well outside your comfort zone; a narrowly scoped role with clean handoffs is not what this team offers.
This is an AI-native team. Through fluent use of cutting-edge agentic coding tools, one engineer here consistently out-delivers a much larger conventional team. You will have opinions about where these tools help and where they do not, provide governance input, and build AI into your workflow from day one.
About the RoleYou will be the responsible engineer for the optical and opto-mechanical subsystem of our seeker: lens prescriptions (with optical designers), mounts, athermalization, FPA interface and detector thermal solution, cold stops, windows and domes, packaging, alignment, calibration, and qualification, and you will execute the day-to-day work that gets that design built, integrated, qualified, and into volume production. You report to the seeker lead, who carries final technical authority. Bring deeply considered design options, error budgets, and trade-study results when a decision needs to be made, then execute with rigor and speed. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who has already taken optical hardware from concept through environmental qualification (ideally tactical, airborne, or missile-class) and is ready to do it again, faster and at higher volume.
What You'll DoDrive the opto-mechanical design of the LWIR seeker head: lens stack, mounts, baffles, cold stops, window and dome, FPA interface, detector thermal solution, packaging, and alignment.Partner with optical designers on lens prescriptions; review designs in Zemax or Code V and reason about Seidel/Zernike aberrations from first principles.Own design-constraint definition and error-budget optimization across the optical column; flow tolerances down to suppliers and up to the system performance model.Develop athermalized mounts, bonded and elastomeric interfaces, and window/dome assemblies that survive the high-g, wide-temperature, vibration, and shock environment of a tactical seeker.Integrate the FPA thermal solution (heat spreaders, heat pipes, TECs, cold stops, cold-shield interface) to hit detector NETD, dwell-time, and cool-down targets within tight volume and power budgets.Build full optical tolerance budgets (Monte Carlo and worst-case) across manufacturing, alignment, thermal, packaging, and aging effects.Technically qualify suppliers for IR optics, AR coatings, windows, and domes; bring DFM and design-to-cost recommendations across material choices (Ge, Si, ZnSe, chalcogenide). The Head of Supply Chain owns commercial terms.Develop alignment, bonding, and assembly procedures suitable for high-rate production, not one-off lab builds.Build and execute the optical metrology and test approach: interferometry, MTF, encircled energy, boresight, transmission, and stray light.Plan and execute environmental qualification per MIL-STD-810 and program-specific environments (vibration, shock, thermal, humidity, altitude, EMI/EMC, salt fog, sand/dust, high-g).Stand up bench fixtures and integration test setups: solder eval kits and breakout boards, bring up SBC/SoM carrier boards, and stitch together the sensor, power, and I/O plumbing.Skills We're Hiring ForB.S. in Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or related; M.S. preferred.7 to 9 years of hands-on IR or precision optical hardware design and integration, with responsibility for an opto-mechanical assembly from CAD through environmental qualification.Understanding of geometric and wave optics from first principles, including working fluency with Seidel and Zernike aberration formalisms; able to diagnose an aberrated system at the bench.Working fluency with Zemax or Code V; reads and reviews prescriptions and tolerance flowdowns competently.Strong CAD (SolidWorks, NX, or Creo) and GD&T to ASME Y14.5.Hands-on optical metrology and test: benchtop interferometry (Fizeau, Twyman-Green, or equivalent), MTF, encircled energy, boresight, focal-plane mapping, transmission, stray light.Athermal design, error-budget construction, tolerance analysis, and bonded/elastomeric optical mounting for IR systems, including window and dome design.Optical packaging from CAD assembly to a volume-producible, environmentally qualified package, including detector thermal integration.System hardening and survivability testing of optical systems for tactical, airborne, or munition-class environments per MIL-STD-810.Hands-on MWIR and/or LWIR phenomenology: radiometry, atmospheric transmission, target/background signatures, NETD, and sensitivity-budget reasoning sufficient to defend seeker performance claims.Demonstrated history of building technical-side vendor relationships across the IR optical-hardware supply chain. Candidates without a real working network in IR optics will not be considered.Bias for low-cost, ingenious optical-hardware solutions: a track record of meeting requirements at meaningfully lower unit cost than the legacy approach.AI-native working style: daily use of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Kilo, or similar) for tolerance scripting, supplier comparisons, drawing markup, and report generation.Electronics competency: comfortable soldering eval kits, bringing up SBC/SoM carrier boards, and stitching together basic edge-hardware benches and test fixtures well enough to make things work end-to-end.Bonus Points ForDirect LWIR (8 to 14 µm) optical assemblies in a tactical or airborne product.High-g optical assembly experience (sustained launch loads or hard-impact events).Production transition: moved an optical assembly from prototype to volume manufacturing.IR coatings expertise (DLC, hydrophobic, AR).Stray-light analysis with FRED, ASAP, or TracePro.Direct missile, munition, or seeker program experience.Hobbyist drone build and flight experience that translates to packaging, vibration, and field-handling intuition.Eligibility & Logistics Location: On-site at our Los Angeles, CA HQ; remote work is not available. Monthly weekend travel for test events and supplier engagements. Clearance: A clearance is not required for this position. Must be a U.S. Person.
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Read LessThe Avionics Team owns the electronics on the vehicle: flight computer, compute boards, power conversion, sensor interfaces, wiring, and the embedded firmware that ties them together. The same engineers design the boards, write the firmware, and bring them up at the bench. No handoff layer between hardware and software.
Avionics sits on the critical path for every flight test, so the team's velocity sets the program's pace.
About the RoleWe are looking for an outstanding electrical engineer with deep experience in power systems and circuit design for aerospace or other demanding hardware environments.
You will lead the design and development of power electronics, distribution systems, embedded electrical hardware, and mission-critical avionics circuitry.
This role requires both strong theoretical engineering fundamentals and practical hands-on debugging capability.
What You'll DoDesign power distribution and conversion systems for aerospace platforms.Develop analog and digital circuit designs for avionics and vehicle systems.Create schematics, PCB layouts, and bring-up procedures.Design battery management, power regulation, and protection systems.Design the actuator drive electronics for the fin control actuation system: power stage, current sensing, motor commutation, position-interface front-end, and motor-bus partitioning. Spec to the Control Actuation Engineer's requirements; partner with Avionics software on bench tuning.Support EMI/EMC design and validation efforts.Perform hardware debugging, integration, and environmental testing.Work closely with embedded software and systems engineers.Develop test infrastructure and hardware validation procedures.Help establish scalable electrical architecture standards.Skills We're Hiring ForBS/MS in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.5+ years of circuit and power systems design experience.Strong analog and digital circuit design fundamentals.Experience designing power electronics and high-reliability systems.Experience with PCB design and schematic capture tools.Experience debugging hardware in laboratory environments.Strong understanding of power integrity, grounding, and EMI mitigation.Motor drive design experience: BLDC and PMSM power stages, gate driver selection, current sensing topologies, and EMI mitigation for high-current motor buses.Excellent communication and collaboration skills.Bonus Points ForAerospace, EV, robotics, or high-performance mobility experience.Experience with high-voltage systems.Familiarity with FPGA interfaces and embedded systems.Experience with thermal analysis and reliability engineering.Experience designing hardware for demanding aerospace or high-reliability environments, including familiarity with DO-160 environmental qualification, EMI/EMC mitigation, and power integrity validation.Experience taking hardware from prototype through production.Eligibility & Logistics Location: On-site at our Los Angeles, CA HQ; remote work is not available. Monthly weekend travel for test events and supplier engagements. Clearance: A clearance is not required for this position. Must be a U.S. Person.
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Read LessThe Avionics Team owns the electronics on the vehicle: flight computer, compute boards, power conversion, sensor interfaces, wiring, and the embedded firmware that ties them together. The same engineers design the boards, write the firmware, and bring them up at the bench. No handoff layer between hardware and software.
Avionics sits on the critical path for every flight test, so the team's velocity sets the program's pace.
About the RoleWe are seeking an exceptional avionics software engineer to develop embedded systems and flight-critical software architectures for advanced aerospace platforms.
You will work across hardware, firmware, and real-time software systems while collaborating directly with electrical, controls, and mechanical engineers. You will own mission-critical avionics software that directly interfaces with flight hardware and operational systems, not isolated subsystems or legacy code.
This role is ideal for engineers who want broad technical ownership, rapid iteration cycles, and the opportunity to build systems that move from concept to flight quickly.
What You'll DoDevelop embedded avionics software in C/C++ and Rust.Design real-time software architectures for flight systems.Interface directly with avionics hardware, sensors, and communication systems.Develop software for power systems, telemetry, control systems, and onboard computing.Write the embedded servo firmware for the fin actuators: current loop, position loop, commutation, command interface, and fault handling. Implement to the Control Actuation Engineer's control law spec; tune with them on the bench.Support hardware bring-up, integration testing, and flight operations.Build robust testing and simulation frameworks.Participate in system-level architecture and safety reviews.Optimize performance, reliability, and fault tolerance of embedded systems.Collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering teams.Skills We're Hiring ForBS/MS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.5+ years of embedded software development experience.Strong proficiency in C/C++.Experience with real-time systems and embedded Linux or RTOS environments.Experience debugging hardware/software interactions.Familiarity with communication protocols such as CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, and Ethernet.Strong systems-level thinking and troubleshooting ability.Motor-control firmware experience: current and position loops, FOC or trapezoidal commutation, sensored or sensorless schemes, and real-time scheduling on a motor-control MCU.Excellent communication and teamwork skills.Bonus Points ForExperience with aerospace, automotive, robotics, or autonomous systems.Rust experience.Experience with DO-178 or safety-critical software processes.FPGA or low-level hardware interface experience.Experience with telemetry, flight controls, or navigation systems.Familiarity with Python tooling and automated testing.Experience supporting hardware integration and flight testing.Eligibility & Logistics Location: On-site at our Los Angeles, CA HQ; remote work is not available. Monthly weekend travel for test events and supplier engagements. Clearance: A clearance is not required for this position. Must be a U.S. Person.
Equal Opportunity & Export Compliance Furientis is an equal-opportunity employer. To comply with U.S. export control laws, employment is contingent on eligibility to access export-controlled information.
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