Top Aerospace Jobs in Boston, MA

Lead a small engineering team while remaining hands-on, guiding software from design through delivery. Build and scale mission-critical decision-making products for energy customers, collaborate across technical and domain teams, translate ambiguous requirements into shipped software, and improve power-grid safety. The role requires independent execution, customer partnership, continuous learning, and travel.

Provides part-time optical test and controls engineering support for a lunar camera environmental test campaign. Responsibilities include operating optical instrumentation and Linux-based camera-control software, developing test routines, executing and documenting benchtop and environmental tests, monitoring data and anomalies, supporting optical alignment and verification, and coordinating with multidisciplinary engineers. The role is remote with periodic on-site work in Massachusetts and Connecticut, approximately 25% travel, and a six-month independent contractor engagement.

Participates in a structured rotational IT program supporting digital transformation, enterprise technology, data, process improvement, and project delivery initiatives. Responsibilities include project planning, tracking, reporting, process analysis, documentation, dashboard development, testing, change management, stakeholder communication, data review, automation, prototyping, and translating business needs into technology solutions.

Deploy and integrate Hivemind autonomy software with maritime platforms worldwide. Support customer deployments, software development, on-water testing, training, demonstrations, debugging, documentation, and maritime system integrations involving controls, sensors, navigation, and communications. Collaborate with customers, sales, and product engineering teams to resolve integration issues and improve products.

Leads new-business development across U.S. defense and maritime markets. Identifies and shapes opportunities, builds senior customer and industry relationships, develops capture and pursuit strategies, supports bids, and converts long-cycle opportunities into funded programs. Partners with engineering, operations, finance, and executives to validate technical fit, capacity, pricing, risks, and schedules. Maintains CRM pipeline data, supports forecasts, develops teaming relationships, and transitions awarded opportunities to account or program owners.

Lead technical vision and execution for autonomy and APNT solutions on unmanned aerial systems. Guide programs from research and development through flight testing and fielding, oversee multidisciplinary engineering teams, manage schedules and budgets, support systems integration, engage customers and partners, and identify new business opportunities. Provide technical oversight while driving successful delivery of mission-critical aerospace software and systems.

Leads the technical architecture, design, and implementation of mission management and autonomy solutions. Partners with technical leaders and product teams to develop tracking, mission planning, auto-routing, and resource management capabilities. Supports customer engagement, proposals, whitepapers, new business capture, and technical solution presentations for defense and intelligence customers. Requires strong leadership, communication, technical writing, and active Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Design, build, maintain, and operate hypersonic propulsion test infrastructure and test cells. Develop high-pressure fluid and fuel control systems, combustion devices, sensors, and controls; collaborate on experiments; analyze propulsion performance data; and design scramjet and ramjet components. The role requires hands-on testing, mechanical and fluid-system design, data acquisition, and safe operation of high-energy tests, with up to 10% travel.

Own the Revel platform product strategy and execution across access administration, APIs, SDKs, deployments, upgrades, and fleet management. Partner with engineering on architecture, multitenancy, scale, and reliability; conduct discovery with administrators, IT, security, and field teams; and improve installation and upgrade experiences for connected and air-gapped environments. Define success metrics, prioritize the roadmap, and lead products serving enterprise and safety-critical customers.

Own the end-to-end developer experience for RevelCode, including the IDE, editing, testing, deployment, monitoring, diagnostics, and dashboard workflows. Conduct customer research, define product and IDE strategy, evaluate compiler and language-tooling usability, and coordinate engineers to deliver the product vision. The role serves technical users operating control programs against physical hardware, including customers in air-gapped and potentially safety-critical environments.

Administer Red Hat Linux, AWS cloud infrastructure, open-source platforms, and scalable big-data environments. Build CI/CD pipelines, maintain systems, patch applications, manage backups and VPNs, troubleshoot production issues, and support security compliance. Lead AWS and cluster networking design, monitor systems, respond to incidents, coordinate vendors, and develop secure configurations across development, test, and production environments.