Technical Operations Engineer, Maneuver Dominance

What you'll do

• Stand up forward-deployed operations in austere environments and support successful product use and long-term sustainment.
• Support vehicle autonomy development through test events and customer demonstrations.
• Coordinate across engineering teams and customers; troubleshoot systems and train peers or customers.

What they ask for

• Hands-on technical experience in field operations, manufacturing, or testing, plus prior military or defense-contractor experience in a listed aircraft, network, or maintenance role.
• Understanding of flight operations, aircraft systems, and sensors; operationally relevant deployment experience.
• Experience troubleshooting hardware/software/operations issues, performing log-based root cause analysis, and working with engineering teams and customers.
• Willingness to travel up to 80%, work extended hours, meet deployment health requirements, and obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related discipline; or hands-on professional experience with developmental weapon or missile systems on manned and/or unmanned aircraft.
• Experience with autonomy, ground-based air defense, air-breathing propulsion, aircraft or launch-vehicle flight-line operations, or munitions handling.

Pay

$113,000 — $155,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Python, Rust, MATLAB, IP Networking, MANET, SATCOM

AI focus

Supports development and testing of vehicle autonomy, including potential work with behavior trees, computer-vision models, and multi-vehicle operation.