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.

Leads systems engineering for flight management avionics, including software requirements definition, hardware and software integration, deployment, troubleshooting, laboratory test-bench integration, and verification and validation. Provides technical leadership for complex engineering projects and ensures compliance with aviation certification, security, and systems engineering standards. Requires extensive Flight Management or Flight Guidance experience and collaboration with software and systems engineering teams.

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.

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.

Provide technical leadership for structural and/or thermal-fluids analysis of aerospace vehicles and propulsion systems. Perform FEA, fatigue, fracture, thermal-stress, CFD, and 1D fluid modeling; validate models against test data; support loads development, anomaly investigations, and nonconforming hardware disposition. Collaborate with design, systems, manufacturing, and test teams while improving analysis methods, mentoring engineers, and supporting safety-critical aerospace systems.