Firefly Aerospace

Engineer

• Support avionics production in all aspects from design release through production delivery by constantly removing blockers and solving problems
• Optimize and automate manufacturing and test processes to improve quality and throughput
• Oversee introduction and implementation of new products and product revisions
• Resolve non-conformances found in the production process and implement root cause corrective actions
• Work closely with the design team to optimize manufacturability and design standardization
• Identify, plan and execute capital equipment, machine, and layout upgrades to meet production requirements by working closely with all stakeholders to prepare business cases
• Develop, introduce, and maintain new planning, production, quality, ERP, data collection and analysis, and other processes where none exist
• Support integration, test, and launch operations as required

Avionics Manufacturing Engineer II

• Define vehicle-level architecture, capabilities, specifications, operations, and interdisciplinary optimization in alignment with Firefly objectives
• Influence and direct configuration requirements by conducting, evaluating, and leading system-level trades to drive innovation in vehicle design and functionality
• Analyze and optimize mass, delta V, power, and data budgets, ensuring technical feasibility and operational success
• Chair vehicle-level design and milestone reviews, holding the team to the Firefly and Program standards to meet the risk posture of the program
• Develop innovative solutions for vehicle design and operations, integrating modern technologies to improve program capabilities
• Identify creative ways to achieve standardization and commonality of component selection and integrated system designs across Firefly programs/product lines
• Own the technical risk posture for assigned program/product and missions as the authority for vehicle risk
• Actively reduce system vulnerabilities through robust root cause investigation, change management, corrective action, and risk mitigation/verification plans
• Review and validate designs, work instructions, nonconformances, test plans, and test procedures across sub-systems
• Manage program risks by identifying, mitigating, and tracking potential technical issues, while enabling cross-department/program communication of impacts risks and associated changes
• Provide real time (on-console) support for integrated operations, working to resolve live anomalies during mission operations
• Lead interdisciplinary efforts in coordination with Business Development, Engineering, Program Management, and Operations for your assigned program/product
• Collaborate with Production, Integration, and Quality Assurance departments to ensure seamless operations
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for customers, vendors, and program partners across the full lifecycle (from proposal through end of mission data reviews)
• Represent Firefly at conferences, reviews, and investor meetings
• Lead Mission Readiness and Data Reviews to ensure the vehicle and personnel are ready to support missions for assigned program/product
• Provide technical mentorship to the team and facilitate the training pipeline for the Chief Engineering team

Deputy Chief Engineer – Spacecraft, Structural/Propulsion

Business Intelligence Developer

• Build, maintain, and improve interactive Power BI dashboards and analyses that provide real-time, cross-functional insights to drive strategic and operational decision-making
• Standardize KPI definitions and reporting processes, documenting metric calculations, assumptions, and limitations to ensure consistency and scalability
• Write and optimize SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, and reporting, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in the resulting datasets across multiple sources
• Present insights to department leads, enabling them to make data-driven operational process improvements, then track and measure the impact of those changes
• Collaborate with business and technical owners of internal tools (and resulting data feeds) to ensure data infrastructure supports accurate, efficient analytics workflows
• Maintain data governance and quality standards, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and adherence to the BI team's source-of-truth data models

Business Intelligence Analyst II

Payroll

• Process biweekly, multi-cycle, and off-cycle payrolls across multiple states and entities.
• Review and validate payroll inputs including earnings, deductions, taxes, garnishments, and adjustments.
• Manage final pay compliance and supplemental wage processing (bonuses, commissions, severance).
• Own and maintain the payroll calendar and processing governance framework.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll tax regulations and wage & hour laws.
• Lead year-end payroll strategy including W-2 preparation, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Monitor regulatory changes and partner with HR/Legal to mitigate compliance risk.
• Perform payroll general ledger reconciliations and coordinate funding requirements with Finance.
• Analyze payroll variances and resolve discrepancies with documented root cause analysis.
• Serve as subject matter expert for payroll system configuration (e.g., ADP Workforce Now, Workday).
• Lead payroll-related system enhancements, integrations, testing, and vendor coordination.
• Identify and implement automation and process improvement initiatives.

Payroll Specialist III

Systems Engineer

• Creating and maintain system-level designs, schematics, interface control documents and performance budgets
• Owning requirements development/flowdown, subsystem interfaces, and vehicle level test plans
• Reviewing all test plans for your vehicle
• Leading system-level trades, design reviews, and data reviews for your vehicle
• Being accountable for the resolution of any issue, failure, or NCR that impacts closure of your test plans
• Facilitating the change control board, risk review board, deliverable tracking and effort estimates for your vehicle
• Maintaining a strong rapport with the manufacturing and integration technicians
• Traveling to support offsite testing
• Serving as surge capacity for the operations team during demanding missions

Spacecraft Systems Engineer III

SDET

• Develop and execute spacecraft functional and system-level test procedures to verify vehicle performance and mission readiness
• Design and maintain automated test scripts, configurations, and architectures to support efficient test execution across multiple programs
• Collaborate with subsystem responsible engineers and chief engineers to define test requirements and ensure traceability to verification objectives
• Support Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) testbed development and maintenance, including defining configurations and integrating hardware/software interfaces
• Monitor and troubleshoot test results, identifying issues and driving root cause resolution across subsystems
• Plan and support test operations in cleanroom, environmental, and launch site environments
• Contribute to data management, telemetry visualization, and results analysis to ensure comprehensive verification and documentation
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts to streamline test processes, increase automation, and enhance test reliability
• Support the development of tools, dashboards, and analytics for test performance tracking and data-driven decision making

Spacecraft Functional Test Engineer III

• Serve as a technical authority on flight dynamics, providing expertise across all spacecraft programs and mission phases
• Develop and validate novel flight dynamics methodologies, tools, and best practices for complex or unprecedented mission requirements
• Lead resolution of the most challenging flight dynamics problems across the company
• Provide authoritative technical review and approval of all flight dynamics products
• Establish rigorous unit testing standards and practices to increase the reliability of flight dynamics software
• Drive flight dynamics strategy and roadmap development, identifying capability gaps and investment priorities
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives for flight dynamics processes, tools, and operational efficiency
• Represent flight dynamics expertise in executive-level technical reviews, mission milestone reviews, customer meetings, and proposal efforts
• Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering their technical growth and career development

Principal Flight Dynamics Engineer

Architect

• Collaboratively lead interdisciplinary teams through advanced, complex technical projects for the design, development, integration, and testing of customer solutions, including developing concept of operations, mission requirements, and system architectures
• Support front-end business development efforts including customer engagement, white papers, proposals, and studies
• Maintain strong customer awareness and develop customer relationships in partnership with the business development team.
• Define architecture and system requirements for Space Control and/or Space Domain Awareness missions
• Lead modeling and simulation efforts to assess system performance
• Develop CONOPS at the spacecraft, constellation, and mission level
• Architect and implement Space Control and Space Domain Awareness solutions
• Lead internal technical projects and end-to-end engineering activities to meet the companys strategic growth objectives
• Work with program execution teams as they mature their solutions through critical design review

Mission Architect – Space Superiority

• Oversee mission architectures across Firefly’s Space Superiority portfolio
• Collaboratively lead interdisciplinary teams through advanced, complex technical projects
• Support front-end business development efforts including customer engagement
• Maintain strong customer awareness and develop customer relationships
• Define architecture and system requirements for Space Control and/or Space Domain Awareness missions
• Lead modeling and simulation efforts to assess system performance
• Develop CONOPS at the spacecraft, constellation, and mission level
• Architect and implement Space Control and Space Domain Awareness solutions
• Lead internal technical projects and end-to-end engineering activities
• Work with program execution teams as they mature their solutions

• Oversee mission architectures across Fireflys Space Superiority portfolio
• Collaboratively lead interdisciplinary teams through advanced, complex technical projects for the design, development, integration, and testing of customer solutions
• Support front-end business development efforts including customer engagement, white papers, proposals, and studies
• Maintain strong customer awareness and develop customer relationships in partnership with the business development team
• Define architecture and system requirements for Space Control and/or Space Domain Awareness missions
• Lead modeling and simulation efforts to assess system performance
• Develop CONOPS at the spacecraft, constellation, and mission level
• Architect and implement Space Control and Space Domain Awareness solutions
• Lead internal technical projects and end-to-end engineering activities to meet the companys strategic growth objectives
• Work with program execution teams as they mature their solutions through critical design review

Mission Architect, Space Superiority

• Oversee all aspects of designing, developing, and fielding Space Superiority missions, including integration with ground and user segments
• Collaboratively lead interdisciplinary teams through advanced, complex technical projects for the design, development, integration, and testing of customer solutions
• Support front-end business development efforts including customer engagement, white papers, proposals, and studies
• Maintain strong customer awareness and develop customer relationships in partnership with the business development team
• Define architecture and system requirements for Space Control and/or Space Domain Awareness missions
• Lead modeling and simulation efforts to assess system performance
• Develop CONOPS at the spacecraft, constellation, and mission level
• Architect and implement Space Control and Space Domain Awareness solutions
• Lead internal technical projects and end-to-end engineering activities to meet the companys strategic growth objectives
• Work with program execution teams as they mature their solutions through critical design review

• Oversee preventative maintenance and repair of launch site facilities.
• Plan and supervise renovation and repair efforts.
• Write statements of work and requests for proposals for contracted work.
• Evaluate contractor bids, coordinate requirements, and manage work execution of contractors.
• Collaborate with responsible engineers of the launch pad systems to coordinate and execute preventative maintenance, including calibration of key system components.
• Interface with the civil engineering office and support personnel of Vandenberg SFB to ensure compliance with safety regulations and building codes.
• Write work instructions and supervise work execution for facilities technicians.

Launch Site Facilities Manager – Responsible Engineer

• Oversee preventative maintenance and repair of launch site facilities
• Plan and supervise renovation and repair efforts
• Write statements of work and requests for proposals for contracted work
• Evaluate contractor bids, coordinate requirements, and manage work execution of contractors
• Collaborate with responsible engineers of the launch pad systems to coordinate and execute preventative maintenance
• Interface with the civil engineering office and support personnel of Vandenberg SFB to ensure compliance with safety regulations and building codes
• Write work instructions and supervise work execution for facilities technicians

Electrical Engineer

• Develop detailed 2D and 3D harness designs, wiring diagrams, and manufacturing documentation for launch vehicles and spacecraft.
• Create and maintain drawing packages including schematics, wire diagrams, 3D routing, assembly drawings, and bill of materials.
• Collaborate with engineers to define routing, wire gauge, shielding, grounding, derating, connector selection, and EMI/EMC considerations.
• Integrate harness designs into vehicle CAD models, ensuring proper fit, form, and installation clearances.
• Support rapid prototyping and flight hardware builds by resolving design issues and updating documentation.
• Ensure compliance with Firefly standards, space environment requirements, and industry standards such as IPC/WHMA-A-620 and NASA specifications.
• Participate in design reviews and support continuous improvement of interconnect design processes, templates, and best practices.
• Manage revision and configuration control management for drawing packages across multiple platforms.
• Serve as the CAD Librarian for interconnect components by creating, validating, and maintaining symbols, parts, connector families, and metadata within the CAD environments.

Electrical Engineering Designer

• Own all aspects of the launch pad hydraulic systems used for the vehicle support strongback and the hold down release system
• Serve as the subject matter expert for these systems during launch campaigns to validate system readiness and performance
• Lead design reviews and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including design engineers, technicians, external partners, and site personnel to drive mechanical system upgrades, streamline operations, and validate system readiness and performance for launch campaigns
• Support safe movement of launch vehicles and payload segments at the launch complex including hoisting via crane and installation of the launch vehicle into the launch pad support structure
• Perform structural analysis using hand calculations and FEA tools to validate designs and provide engineering dispositions for in-service hardware
• Lead troubleshooting efforts, resolve any issues and non-conformances that arise during operations/testing, and support anomaly investigations
• Write procedures for system activation, operation, maintenance, and vehicle handling operations
• Develop and execute maintenance strategies that maximize system availability and minimize downtime between missions
• Collaborate with customers, external stakeholders, and design teams to ensure interoperability and compliance with regulatory and range safety requirements
• Provide technical write-ups for proposals and tailoring of regulations
• Direct the work of Fluids and Mechanical GSE team members
• Write work instructions and supervise the execution of field work in service of the launch pad mechanical systems

Avionics Manufacturing Engineer II

Deputy Chief Engineer – Spacecraft, Structural/Propulsion

Business Intelligence Analyst II

Payroll Specialist III

Spacecraft Systems Engineer III

Spacecraft Functional Test Engineer III

Principal Flight Dynamics Engineer

Mission Architect – Space Superiority

Mission Architect – Space Superiority

Mission Architect, Space Superiority

Mission Architect – Space Superiority

Launch Site Facilities Manager – Responsible Engineer

Launch Site Facilities Manager – Responsible Engineer

Electrical Engineering Designer

Launch Engineer – Mechanical Systems III