Top Aerospace Jobs in Boston, MA

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.

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.

Leads the strategy, engineering, delivery, and operations of global enterprise infrastructure across networking, cloud platforms, on-premises systems, data centers, identity, and automation. Manages Network Engineering, Cloud Platform Engineering, and IT Infrastructure Engineering organizations; establishes service-management practices, resiliency standards, security controls, budgets, vendor relationships, and operational metrics. Partners with cybersecurity and business teams to deliver scalable, secure, cost-efficient infrastructure and leads major incident response and modernization initiatives.

Design, build, and operate enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, and distributed event-driven systems using C#/.NET, React, cloud platforms, and messaging technologies. Integrate business systems, implement resilient architectural patterns, add AI capabilities, and support CI/CD, observability, security, and production troubleshooting. Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers, contribute to technical standards, lead projects when needed, and deliver reliable solutions across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and finance functions.

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.

Leads cross-functional aerospace engineering projects for FAA-certified avionics systems. Responsibilities include defining scope and schedules, managing budgets, risks, technical issues, baseline changes, EVM, certification coordination, customer engagement, proposals, and status reporting. The role requires collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, certification, program management, and business teams while ensuring delivery on schedule and within budget.

Lead a small engineering team while remaining hands-on, guiding software development from design through delivery. Build new products and scale existing systems, establish technical excellence, collaborate with platform engineers and domain experts, and work directly with customers and end users to deliver decision-making platforms for defense and airspace safety.

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.

Build a high-performance frontend data platform for exploring and analyzing hardware telemetry. Develop React and TypeScript applications, interactive time-series visualizations, data visualization plugins, complex application state management, and LLM-assisted analysis workflows. Collaborate directly with hardware engineers and customers to define interfaces, prototype workflows, demonstrate features, and incorporate feedback into product development.

Build scalable systems and machine learning models that transform satellite imagery into labeled geospatial data and production computer vision products. Responsibilities include developing data and annotation pipelines, tracking lineage and versioning, deploying inference services, evaluating models, supporting cloud infrastructure, and improving labeling workflows. The role requires strong Python, cloud, containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, production support, and deep learning expertise, with preferred experience in GCP, Vertex AI, spatial databases, and satellite imagery.