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Commercial Counsel will manage the full lifecycle of commercial contracts, including drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and execution. The role develops contracting templates, playbooks, approval processes, and automation; advises on key contractual provisions; collaborates with business, engineering, finance, IT, security, and executive teams; and supports broader corporate and operational legal matters in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

Manage accurate bi-weekly, multi-state payroll through Rippling, including tax support, reconciliations, compliance, employee inquiries, leave adjustments, and audit documentation. Support accounts payable through vendor maintenance and transaction review, and accounts receivable through invoicing, collections, reconciliations, and discrepancy resolution. Assist with month-end close, internal controls, process documentation, and broader accounting projects while handling confidential financial and employee information.

Design, build, test, troubleshoot, and improve mechanical hardware for Nova, a reusable launch vehicle. Responsibilities include creating CAD models and engineering drawings, developing prototypes and production-ready designs, collaborating with manufacturing teams, investigating root causes, conducting hardware testing, and balancing performance, manufacturability, reliability, cost, and schedule. The role requires hands-on engineering, clear documentation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and ownership from concept through fabrication and testing.

Own structural integrity for Nova launch vehicle modules or subsystems. Lead structural analysis across engineers, translate requirements, develop models and load cases, support testing and validation, close materials and loads database gaps, review stress work, identify risks, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on reusable aerospace structures, launch vehicles, propulsion systems, and structural mechanics.

Develop and lead system safety and reliability analyses for a reusable launch vehicle, including FHA, FMECA, FTA, and HAZOP. Integrate analyses across vehicle stages and subsystems, quantify failure probabilities, identify system-level reliability improvements, manage interdisciplinary design risks, and communicate findings to engineers, the FAA, Space Force, and launch customers.

Develop guidance, navigation, and control algorithms for reusable launch vehicles and spacecraft across launch, orbit, reentry, and landing. Build and validate vehicle and environment models, conduct simulation and Monte Carlo analyses, perform rigorous verification and testing, document regulatory evidence, and oversee customer trajectory designs through flight operations. Collaborate with hardware teams on control devices and system interfaces while owning GNC capabilities throughout the vehicle lifecycle.

Develop system architectures and requirements for future reusable launch vehicle iterations. Translate customer and business objectives into technical concepts, ConOps, functional capabilities, and product breakdowns. Conduct first-order analyses and trade studies across engineering disciplines to estimate performance, mass, power, cost, and reliability. Support architectures through design, integration, testing, and flight operations while identifying and mitigating lifecycle risks.

Develop flight safety simulation models for Nova launch, reentry, and landing operations. Model vehicle failures, breakup debris, debris trajectories, and expected casualties using Monte Carlo analysis and population data. Partner with reliability and system safety engineers to demonstrate compliance with public and range safety requirements, and communicate results to the FAA, Space Force, customers, and leadership.

Design and develop Rust-based automation frameworks and abstractions for distributed vehicle and hardware control systems. Build ground and vehicle automation, establish user-facing guardrails, write software tests, and support hardware testing for benchtop checkouts, engine hotfires, and flight objectives.

Engineering interns will work on open-ended projects supporting Stoke’s reusable Nova launch vehicle across mechanical, test, avionics, and manufacturing teams. Responsibilities may include engineering design and analysis, CAD, manufacturing, PCB and harness integration, test operations, and hazardous operations. Interns will manage technical projects, apply engineering fundamentals, collaborate with mentors, and contribute to real rocket products while working onsite for 10–14 consecutive weeks.