Immediate Job Openings

As an employee at X-Bow, you will be given the opportunity to participate in a range of diverse activities to apply X-Bow’s unique technologies, as well as the flexibility to focus on areas that will further your individual professional interests and career path. In this position, you will serve a critical role in helping us execute advanced technology projects and conduct space launch programs for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and other government agencies. We are looking for a candidate who combines strong communication, organization, and management skills with broad interests and experience in the aerospace industry. As a key member of a small, dynamic, and highly skilled team, you will be expected to actively collaborate with others as well as work independently to accomplish assignments and responsibilities successfully. Creativity and methodical problem solving are both required.

As Structures Lead you will work within the vehicle engineering team to deliver all areas of structures engineering and analysis required to meet requirements on multiple flight programs. Additionally, you will help build an outstanding structures engineering organization utilizing best practices in design, analysis, material selection, manufacturing, and test.

n this role, you will build a functional engineering team responsible for all mechanisms used on X-Bow launch vehicles and support systems. This includes initial trades, conceptual designs, requirement definition and verification, development tests and qualification. This person will write test plans, as well as support the test team and help evaluate the results of a test. The team lead will efficiently design mass and cost-efficient assemblies. Operations applicable to this role may include propellant manufacture, insulation manufacture and machining, rocket motor assembly operations, machining, metal forming, assembly, and material handling.

As Launch Regulatory Manager, you will ensure X-Bow has all the approvals it needs to fly. As X-Bow’s primary liaison for mission deliverables, you will manage, create, and execute the licensing and documentation necessary to support X-Bow’s launch cadence. You will improve existing processes – and create new ones – in order to streamline and accelerate the delivery and compliance products. You will have primary responsibility for maintaining continuing accuracy of all launch licenses and will assist in modifying compliance products as needed to support new launch vehicles, operations, and sites. You will communicate and articulate X-Bow’s licensing needs to internal and external stakeholders. You will be the primary point of contact between X-Bow and the launch site/range personnel.

You will play a key role in driving each launch vehicle to first flight. You will work closely with the vehicle engineering team to deliver successful designs that satisfy the predictions in the areas of Loads and Dynamics. Areas included in this role are systems such as stage separation, fairing separation, and payload dynamic environments. Coupled loads analysis at the vehicle level to drive design choices at both the component and system level and generate requirements for the broader engineering team. You will develop and execute tests that support development and qualification. Hands-on assembly and test activities will be part of your responsibilities as well.