Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Seattle, WA

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.