Jobs at Cowboy Space Corporation

Lead and build Cowboy Space's export compliance program (ITAR/EAR/OFAC). Own classification, licensing, TCPs, denied-party screening, audits, training, and partner with engineering, supply chain, and leadership to enable compliant international operations.

Design, implement, and validate spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control algorithms. Build high-fidelity simulations and state estimators, integrate with sensors/actuators and flight software, support HIL testing, launch preparation, on-orbit operations, and flight-data analysis to improve system performance.

Lead mechanical design of spacecraft components from concept through flight-ready production. Design structures, mechanisms, and thermal solutions; perform FEA and thermal analysis; prototype, test, and validate hardware; support integration, environmental testing, and launch readiness; troubleshoot failures and work with suppliers to scale production.

Lead and operate Talent Acquisition across the company: own full-cycle recruiting for technical, manufacturing, operational, executive, and business roles; manage recruiters and external agencies; build recruiting infrastructure, ATS workflows, analytics, dashboards, and hiring processes; and source senior, hard-to-fill technical talent during rapid growth.

Design, develop, and integrate spacecraft subsystems (structures, power, thermal, avionics). Lead system-level trade studies, CAD/FEA modeling, integration and environmental testing, prepare technical documentation and ICDs, and support PDR/CDR and cross-functional teams through integration and test campaigns.

Perform system-level modeling, simulation, and trade studies across spacecraft subsystems (structural, thermal, radiation, power, MMOD, optics, etc.). Provide analysis-driven requirements, verification strategies, test correlation, and design recommendations. Collaborate cross-functionally, maintain documentation and models, support environmental qualification and on-orbit performance predictions, and present findings in design reviews.

Design, build, test, and operate launch vehicle systems and flight hardware across disciplines including structures, avionics, propulsion, fluids/thermal, integration, manufacturing, and ground/launch operations. Work spans design, integration, test, and operations in a fast-paced, hands-on environment with ownership over mission-critical aerospace hardware.

Lead prediction and management of aerodynamic heating for launch vehicle ascent and re-entry. Run viscous, reacting-flow CFD, define aeroheating environments and boundary conditions, size TPS, manage aeroheating databases, plan and correlate ground/flight tests, and communicate results across multidisciplinary teams.

Design, simulate, and validate guidance, navigation, and control systems for an orbital-class launch vehicle. Develop 6-DOF dynamics simulations, implement control algorithms in Python/C++, analyze trajectories and dispersions, perform HIL and Monte Carlo testing, and support launch and mission operations.

Lead development and analysis of launch and spacecraft trajectories, orbital propagation and station-keeping, mission design and contingency planning, flight dynamics simulation tooling, and cross-disciplinary systems investigations to validate guidance and control profiles.

Work across spacecraft engineering disciplines—design, build, integrate, test, and operate satellite systems (avionics, power, thermal, structures, GNC, payloads, flight software and ground systems). Hands-on, mission-critical hardware responsibility in a fast-moving startup environment.

Design, analyze, build, test, and integrate propulsion and fluid systems for satellites and rockets. Work may include system architecture, combustion and thermal analysis, pressurized systems, feed systems, valves/regulators/tanks, controls/embedded systems, GSE, and integration/qualification testing.

Lead design, analysis, testing, and manufacturing of vehicle primary structures and mechanisms including airframe, tanks, landing systems, aerodynamic surfaces, and stage separation. Optimize for minimum mass and high reliability across ascent, entry, landing, and reuse. Direct structural analysis (FEA, hand calcs), test campaigns, manufacturing iteration, anomaly investigations, and team leadership.