Jobs at Specter Aerospace

Develop custom systems for hypersonic flight vehicles, manage technical requirements, and participate in collaborative engineering efforts and testing activities.

Design and develop components, mechanical subsystems, and complete hypersonic flight vehicles. Responsibilities include leading component and system analyses, architecture trade studies, manufacturing drawing releases, subsystem integration, and technical project ownership. The engineer will collaborate across disciplines to optimize vehicle performance and support test activities.

Design and analyze components, subsystems, and systems for hypersonic flight vehicles. Responsibilities include mechanical concept trade studies, preliminary analysis, manufacturing drawings, subsystem ownership, cross-disciplinary integration, and ensuring vehicle fit, functionality, and performance requirements.

Designs and develops mechanical components, assemblies, and subsystems for hypersonic flight vehicles. Responsibilities include creating manufacturing drawings, serving as the responsible engineer for mechanical subsystems, analyzing components, and owning designs through prototype, testing, and production. The role requires cross-disciplinary collaboration, practical engineering problem-solving, and compliance with performance requirements. Travel of up to 10% may be required for test activities, and the candidate must be eligible to obtain a DoD security clearance.

The Mechanical Engineer I will design and develop mechanical components for hypersonic vehicles, manage prototypes, and ensure design optimization. Responsibilities include creating manufacturing drawings and collaborating across disciplines to meet performance requirements.

Develop and integrate avionics architectures for supersonic and hypersonic vehicles. Responsibilities include defining system requirements and interfaces, integrating flight computers, sensors, power and control electronics, supporting hardware bring-up and troubleshooting, executing qualification tests, resolving multidisciplinary integration issues, and maintaining technical documentation. Level III engineers also mentor junior staff and contribute to avionics architecture best practices.

Build and maintain full-stack software, data pipelines, servers, dashboards, and integrations connecting PLCs, databases, control systems, and user interfaces at an engine test facility. Process and visualize test telemetry, administer infrastructure, support software testing and deployment, and collaborate with controls and propulsion engineers on data-system architecture and requirements.

Develop and maintain embedded flight software for custom avionics and ground support systems. Responsibilities include software architecture, requirements, hardware drivers, communication interfaces, flight algorithm integration, real-time operating systems, hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testing, vehicle integration, flight-test support, documentation, code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.

Develop and implement detection, tracking, filtering, and image-processing algorithms for optical and infrared sensors on high-speed flight vehicles. Integrate algorithms into real-time simulation and hardware, create sensor and testing requirements, support laboratory and flight characterization, analyze sensor and flight-test data, and document designs and verification.

Design and test RF telemetry, communications, and antenna systems for high-speed flight vehicles. Perform link budgets, propagation analysis, antenna integration, hardware selection, lab and field testing, diagnose RF issues, support vehicle integration and flight-test operations, and own RF systems through implementation and documentation.

Design and take ownership of mechanical subsystems and full hypersonic vehicles. Perform preliminary analysis, trade studies, create manufacturing drawings, integrate subsystems, and ensure fit, functionality, and performance for flight and test.