Slingshot Aerospace

Role Description As a Capture Manager at Slingshot Aerospace, you will help drive growth by leading capture strategy, shaping competitive pursuits, and supporting winning proposals across our U.S. government, defense, intelligence, and commercial markets. This role is focused on post-pursuit decision capture activities, partnering closely with Account Executives and cross-functional teams once opportunities have been identified, qualified, and selected for pursuit. - Lead capture strategy, execution, and delivery for pursued government, defense, intelligence, and commercial space opportunities. - Support opportunities after a pursue decision has been made, partnering with Account Executives who lead prospecting, customer development, and qualification. - Develop and manage capture plans, including win strategy, stakeholder mapping, competitive positioning, solution alignment, teaming, pricing strategy, compliance approach, and proposal readiness. - Drive cross-functional coordination across Product, Engineering, Program, Finance, Legal, Contracts, Proposal, and executive stakeholders to gather inputs, resolve open questions, and keep pursuits moving toward submission. - Partner with Account Executives to advance strategic pursuits, strengthen customer positioning, and improve probability of win. - Collaborate with technical SMEs to understand customer needs and translate Slingshot capabilities into compelling, differentiated solutions. - Work closely with Legal and Contracts to address contracting requirements, terms and conditions, risk considerations, compliance needs, and customer or partner agreements. - Coordinate with external partners, primes, subcontractors, and teammates to align capture strategy, proposal inputs, teaming approach, responsibilities, and deadlines. - Lead proposal strategy and support content development, ensuring technical accuracy, compliance, clarity, and alignment with the overall capture strategy. - Write, edit, and shape proposal content directly, including executive summaries, technical narratives, management approaches, past performance, and customer-specific messaging. - Drive proposal storytelling by leveraging internal SMEs, reusable content, templates, and AI tools to support high-quality, efficient content generation. - Conduct customer, competitor, market, and price-to-win analysis to inform capture strategy and strengthen pursuit positioning. - Support financial modeling, pricing analysis, and deal structuring in partnership with Finance and business stakeholders. - Build and maintain relationships with customers, primes, partners, and industry stakeholders to position Slingshot for current and future opportunities. - Support select international pursuits as needed, helping align capture approach, proposal practices, and win strategies across markets. - Support implementation and continuous improvement of capture and proposal processes, including Shipley-aligned best practices, tools, templates, and reviews. - Ensure capture and proposal efforts account for relevant procurement, compliance, export control, and contracting considerations, including ITAR, EAR, and applicable U.S. government requirements. - Maintain accurate pursuit status, capture artifacts, pipeline inputs, and forecasting support in relevant systems. - Represent Slingshot at customer meetings, partner discussions, industry events, and conferences as needed. - Perform other duties as assigned, less than 10%. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in capture management, proposal leadership, account strategy, program development, or a related growth role in defense, aerospace, space, technology, or government contracting environments. - Demonstrated experience developing and executing capture strategies for complex opportunities after a pursue decision has been made. - Experience supporting or leading U.S. government, defense, intelligence, or federal technology pursuits. - Strong cross-functional leadership skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority and drive inputs, decisions, and accountability across multiple internal teams. - Experience coordinating with external partners, primes, subcontractors, or teaming organizations to support proposal development and bid submission. - Strong proposal writing and content development skills, including the ability to produce clear, persuasive, technically grounded, and compliant proposal content. - Ability to manage capture activities through proposal submission, including win strategy, competitive analysis, teaming, pricing inputs, reviews, and stakeholder coordination. - Strong business judgment and analytical skills, including comfort with financial modeling, pricing analysis, Excel-based analysis, and deal structuring. - Ability to collaborate effectively with Account Executives, technical SMEs, program teams, executives, Finance, Legal, Contracts, and external partners. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for customer and proposal audiences. - Ability to manage multiple pursuits simultaneously in a fast-paced, evolving environment. - Familiarity with government procurement processes, proposal compliance, contracting considerations, and structured capture methodologies. - Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience. - Ability to travel up to 20–25%, or equivalent flexibility. Benefits - Active or current TS/SCI security clearance. - Experience in space domain awareness, space operations, satellite operations, ground-based tracking, modeling and simulation, data platforms, or mission software. - Background working with Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, civil space, or other national security customers. - Experience with U.S. government procurement environments and contract vehicles. - Experience supporting international government, defense, or allied space pursuits. - Shipley, APMP, or similar capture/proposal certification. - Experience using AI tools, generative writing assistants, or workflow automation platforms to improve proposal development and capture efficiency. - Experience with enterprise SaaS, data-driven software, or mission-critical technology solutions. - Familiarity with HubSpot, Microsoft Office Suite, NetSuite, Confluence, or similar business systems. - Experience working with primes, integrators, strategic partners, and teaming arrangements. - Comfort operating in a high-growth startup or scale-up environment where processes are structured but still evolving.

Role Description As a Space Systems Engineer, you will play a crucial role in defining and designing technical capabilities to address the unique challenges and requirements of applications ranging from space domain awareness to space education and training, and space intelligence. You will also collaborate closely with Technology, growth, and sales teams, as well as clients and other stakeholders, to develop scalable, robust, and high-performance solutions. - Support the design and architecture of technical solutions for space domain applications. - Analyze and define functional, non-functional, and business requirements to inform solution designs. - Provide technical guidance to multi-disciplinary delivery teams throughout the solution development lifecycle. - Engage with clients, vendors, and internal stakeholders to understand the customer’s technical requirements. - Conduct workshops, presentations, and demonstrations to showcase proposed designs and gain stakeholder buy-in. - Identify potential technical risks and challenges associated with solution development and implementation. - Work closely with the Slingshot product team to shape the technical roadmap and vision for capability development. - Hold development teams accountable for meeting technical objectives and provide regular updates to management. - Seamlessly communicate technical progress, challenges, and achievements to customers, management, and other stakeholders. - Support the growth and product teams in drafting technical content relevant to new business capture opportunities. - Execute all position responsibilities in alignment with Slingshot’s core values, mission, and purpose. - Form trusted working relationships with customers, end users, business partners, and fellow Slingshooters. Qualifications - Must have an active DoD Secret security clearance. - 6+ years of experience in senior engineering technical leadership roles, preferably in the space industry. - Bachelor’s Degree with a major in Engineering, Aerospace, or STEM with a strong focus on astrodynamics, space systems, modeling and simulation, and model-based systems engineering or relevant field. - Technical expertise in space systems, systems engineering, and software development. - Proficiency in project management methodologies (e.g. Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or equivalent). - Demonstrated ability to execute technical roadmaps, manage project risks, and drive results in a fast-paced environment. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Deeply experienced with technical writing, presentation skills, and stakeholder engagement. - Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and analytically. - Proven track record of delivering complex technical projects on time and within budget. - Demonstrated requirements management and verification methodology expertise. - Notable success with classified execution. Requirements - Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in Aerospace Engineering with a strong focus on astrodynamics, space systems, modeling and simulation, and model-based systems engineering. - Demonstrated work experience in space flight applications. - Experience in product development. - Proficiency with system of systems design and execution. - Active DoD TS security clearance. Benefits - Remote work options available. - Salary range: $90,000-$130,000. - Full-time classification.

Role Description As a Programme Manager, you will manage a portfolio of programmes to ensure customer success and meet revenue targets. You will work directly with our sales and capture teams to plan and manage all aspects of assigned programme(s), such as: - Scope - Deliverables - Impact on the business - Resources - Profit and loss - Product strategy - Account reporting - Support to higher level portfolio objectives You will be responsible for coordinating multiple projects to meet programme objectives, build the associated resource loaded execution plans, and oversee the detailed financial, schedule, and performance processes to assure programme success. Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include: - Intellectual agility - Ability to develop innovative solutions - Leadership - Performance-orientation - Industry expertise Position Responsibilities: - Execute programmes cross-functionally to ensure customer success and deliver results, impress the customer, to drive organic growth and follow-on sales. - Conduct analyses and situational reporting to ensure that contracts are being executed within negotiated scope while ensuring successful business outcomes for both Slingshot and our stakeholders. - Ensure compliance with customer requirements throughout all programme phases. - Provide clear recommendations to Product, Engineering, and Astro teams. - Manage complex relationships and associated contracts with client(s), Primes, and Subcontractors to successfully deliver on our commitments to maintain trust within the industry. - Utilize professional judgment, critical thinking skills and research to improve program processes and resolve issues affecting programme performance. - Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above). Qualifications - 10+ years of experience in Programme/Account Management or similar role. - Bachelor’s degree in engineering or similar technical field. - Previous Space Acquisitions or Space Operations experience. - A strong understanding of the UK Space sector. - Deep knowledge of programme management tools and best practices. - Experience working integration efforts. - Skilled in working with matrixed teams. - Skilled in collaborating with data scientists and software engineers. - Strong writing and presentation skills. - Experience working with Cloud Computing systems and environments. - Experience working through security and accreditation processes to include security control frameworks and authorization packages. Requirements - Must be eligible to obtain or maintain UK Government Security Clearance. Preferred Skills - Professional experience with the UK Space Agency, UK Ministry of Defence & UK Space Command. - PRINCE2, PMP or similar certification. - Active UK Security Clearance. - A strong understanding of the UK SDA sector. - Experience with SDA sensor systems. - Experience with core sales tools: Hubspot/Salesforce, Netsuite, LinkedIn, Microsoft Office Suite. Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.

Role Description As our FinOps Manager, you'll own the financial strategy behind our cloud infrastructure, ensuring every engineering dollar delivers maximum value. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you'll partner closely with Engineering, Product, Finance, and Operations to build a culture of cloud cost accountability while enabling teams to innovate quickly and efficiently. This role combines financial analysis, cloud architecture awareness, operational excellence, and cross-functional leadership. You'll transform cloud spend into actionable insights, establish governance that scales with our business, and help engineering teams optimize performance without sacrificing innovation. Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It) - Cloud Financial Management - Own Slingshot's cloud financial operations strategy across AWS and other cloud platforms. - Develop forecasting models for cloud infrastructure spend and improve cost predictability. - Monitor cloud usage trends and proactively identify optimization opportunities. - Establish cost allocation methodologies that provide visibility across products, teams, and business units. - Cost Optimization & Governance - Lead initiatives that reduce cloud spend while maintaining application reliability and performance. - Implement policies, budgets, alerts, and governance controls to improve financial accountability. - Drive adoption of cloud cost optimization best practices, including rightsizing, commitment management, storage optimization, and resource lifecycle management. - Partner with engineering leaders to balance technical decisions with financial outcomes. - Cross-Functional Business Partnership - Serve as the primary FinOps partner to Engineering while collaborating closely with Finance, Product, and Executive Leadership. - Translate technical cloud consumption into business-friendly financial insights. - Support annual planning, forecasting, and monthly infrastructure budget reviews. - Help engineering teams make informed architectural decisions by providing cost visibility and financial recommendations. - Reporting & Analytics - Develop executive dashboards and KPIs that provide visibility into cloud spending, utilization, and efficiency. - Present recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders using clear, data-driven analysis. - Track metrics such as unit economics, cloud cost per customer, workload efficiency, utilization rates, and infrastructure trends. - Vendor & Financial Operations - Manage relationships with cloud vendors and partners. - Support contract negotiations and evaluate purchasing strategies including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and enterprise agreements. - Ensure accurate cloud billing, chargebacks, and cost reporting. - Identify opportunities to improve procurement strategies and maximize return on cloud investments. - Operational Excellence - Establish scalable FinOps processes, documentation, automation, and governance frameworks. - Build engineering guardrails that promote cost-aware development without slowing innovation. - Champion FinOps best practices across the organization and foster a culture of cloud cost ownership. - Continuously evaluate tools and automation that improve cloud visibility, reporting, and operational efficiency. - Stay current on FinOps Foundation guidance and emerging cloud optimization practices. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in FinOps, Cloud Financial Management, FP&A supporting Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or related technical finance roles. - Experience managing cloud costs within AWS (Azure and GCP experience is a plus). - Strong understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure services, and cloud cost drivers. - Experience with cloud cost management platforms such as CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, Finout, ProsperOps, AWS Cost Explorer, or similar solutions. - Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel and experience using SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or similar reporting tools. - Experience partnering directly with engineering organizations to drive cloud cost optimization initiatives. - Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial reporting. - Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to financial stakeholders and financial concepts to technical teams. - Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Bonus Cargo - FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional certification. - Experience supporting Kubernetes, containerized workloads, or large-scale SaaS platforms. - Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.). - Experience working in high-growth SaaS, aerospace, defense, or government contracting environments. - Experience with Datadog, Grafana, Snowflake, or cloud observability platforms. - Experience implementing automated cloud governance and cost optimization workflows. Location Remote (US) Reports To Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Classification Full Time Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.

Role Description As a Senior Integrator Software Engineer, you will design, build and integrate capabilities that advance the development of our products. You will deliver your own timely high-quality code and support your team by mentoring and providing support when needed. You’ll work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to implement the right-sized solution that meets product requirements in a timely manner. You lead the effort in deploying and managing the on-premise software components. As the technical owner of an integration project, you will be a key advisor to senior leaders. Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include: - Intellectual agility - Ability to develop innovative solutions - Leadership - Performance-orientation - Industry expertise Your Mission — Should You Choose to Accept It: - Own the overall technical leadership and direction for a portion of Slingshot’s integration projects, supporting your fellow team members to achieve success in a sustainable long-term manner - Balance timely delivery with the operational stability of the overall system - Foster an environment and culture of personal and professional growth - Turn architecture ideas into technical specifications that can be executed by the team - Leads integration lifecycle, from planning to on-prem deployment - Productionalized support of the architecture and capabilities developed by the team - Coordinates technical design and implementation across teams to deliver customer requirements as extensions to core capabilities and deliver to onsite locations - Participate in customer engagements and lead technical discussions - Act as a mentor for other team members - Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above) Qualifications - 7+ years of experience in software development - Served as a tech lead or equivalent role for 3+ years - 4-year degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field - Experience using our stack or similar technologies (Java/Kotlin, Python, GraphQL, REST, Docker, React, TypeScript) - Adept in working with cloud-based deployments (Azure, AWS) PaaS and IaaS offerings including some experience with Infrastructure-As-Code solutions - Experience with containerization and Kubernetes - Deep working knowledge of version control (Git) and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions) - Experience with event-driven architectures including Kafka and CloudEvents, data platforms, microservices, and distributed systems - Leading initiatives to ensure unit and integration tests are part of the Definition of Done - Knowledgeable in database design, performance, and troubleshooting (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j) - Skilled in collaborating with data scientists in incorporating AI/ML/LLM into existing software products - Proficient in integrating complex external systems with APIs - Ability to travel up to 10% of the time - Must have an active TS/SCI clearance Requirements - Possess security compliance accreditation such as NIST 800-53, DoD ILs, FedRAMP in higher-classification cloud or air-gapped environments and have experience supporting organizations to obtain accreditation - Experience with fast-moving software technology startups and product organizations - Knowledge of frontend technologies, specifically React, Three.js - Demonstrated experience working in, or close collaboration with DevOps team members and infrastructure technology - Familiarity with QA practice and collaboration - Track record of supporting predictable software delivery with Product Team partners - Prior Space and Aerospace Industry experience is a bonus but not required - Experience with simulation technologies like HLA/DIS Location Remote, Greater Colorado Springs Area. US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time. Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time. Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.

Role Description We're seeking a Software Engineering Leader to provide technical leadership across our software engineering organization and establish the engineering operating model that transforms innovative ideas into reliable, production-ready systems. This role serves as the technical connective tissue between Data Science, Software Engineering, DevOps, Product, and Operations, ensuring that engineering teams execute consistently, deliver high-quality software, and scale effectively. A key focus of this role is defining and owning the complete lifecycle for bringing AI models and advanced algorithms from research into production. You'll establish the processes, standards, architecture, and operational practices that enable repeatable, secure, and high-quality software delivery across multiple engineering disciplines. Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It) - Lead technical execution across Data Science, Backend Engineering, Frontend Engineering, DevOps, QA, and Production Operations. - Define and continuously improve the engineering lifecycle for moving AI models, algorithms, and data science outputs into production applications. - Establish engineering standards for technical design, documentation, architecture reviews, testing, deployment readiness, and operational support. - Partner closely with Product Management to translate roadmap priorities into executable engineering plans and delivery milestones. - Provide architectural leadership across cross-functional initiatives while collaborating with backend and frontend technical leads on implementation decisions. - Serve as the final technical decision-maker when cross-team architectural tradeoffs require alignment or escalation. - Drive technical design reviews, architecture governance, and engineering best practices across the organization. - Establish release readiness criteria, testing standards, operational runbooks, monitoring practices, and production support processes. - Identify delivery risks early, remove cross-functional blockers, and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to engineering leadership and stakeholders. - Support engineering managers and technical leads through capability planning, organizational scaling, and technical mentorship. - Serve as a technical advisor across future programs to promote architectural consistency, reusable engineering patterns, and shared platform capabilities. - Drive reuse of shared services, interfaces, deployment practices, and operational tooling to accelerate delivery across multiple projects. Qualifications - Significant experience leading engineering organizations across multiple software disciplines or complex technical product environments. - Strong systems architecture and technical design experience with the ability to balance scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and delivery speed. - Demonstrated experience taking AI, machine learning, data science, or algorithmic capabilities from research into production environments. - Deep understanding of modern software engineering practices including backend systems, frontend development, DevOps, CI/CD, testing strategies, release management, and production operations. - Experience partnering with Product Management to translate business priorities into engineering execution plans. - Exceptional communication skills with experience defining engineering processes, documenting technical decisions, and aligning cross-functional teams. - Active or prior TS/SCI clearance. Requirements - Experience designing or improving engineering operating models, release management processes, and production support practices. - Familiarity with AI/ML model governance, evaluation frameworks, monitoring, and production lifecycle management. - Experience mentoring senior engineers, technical leads, and engineering managers. - Demonstrated success delivering software within classified environments and supporting CTF/ATO authorization activities, including security evidence collection, package preparation, and stakeholder coordination. - Comfortable building scalable engineering processes in fast-moving, ambiguous environments without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy. Benefits - You see systems—not silos—and understand how data science, software engineering, infrastructure, testing, security, and product strategy come together to deliver successful products. - You're a collaborative technical leader who earns trust through sound judgment, clear communication, and thoughtful decision-making. You know when to facilitate consensus and when to provide decisive technical direction. - You enjoy creating structure where none exists, transforming tribal knowledge into repeatable engineering processes, operational excellence, and scalable delivery practices. - Most importantly, you're passionate about helping engineering teams build high-quality software that reliably moves from innovation to mission-critical production. Location - Remote, US (~20% travel to customer and Slingshot locations). - US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time. - Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.

Role Description Slingshot is seeking a Director of Information Technology to lead and scale our internal technology ecosystem as the company continues its growth. This is a highly technical leadership role responsible for designing, implementing, integrating, and operating the systems that power our workforce. Modern IT at Slingshot is not primarily about managing support queues or maintaining legacy infrastructure. It is about selecting best-in-class technologies, integrating them into a cohesive environment, automating workflows, and building systems that simply work. We are looking for a technical leader who has personally led major technology implementations and understands: - Enterprise architecture - Identity management - Endpoint management - SaaS ecosystems - Automation - Security We're building a team of sharp, creative people who love solving hard problems. We value: - Curiosity over ego - Initiative over waiting for permission - People who genuinely care about doing great work Bring your expertise, your fresh ideas, and your drive, we'll bring the rocket fuel. Qualifications - 10+ years of progressive IT leadership experience, including experience leading enterprise IT functions within high-growth technology organizations. - Demonstrated success leading IT for a company that scaled from approximately 200 employees to 500 employees, or similar growth stages. - Deep hands-on expertise within the Microsoft technology ecosystem, including Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, Defender, SharePoint, Teams, endpoint management, and identity management. - Proven experience implementing and integrating third-party SaaS platforms and enterprise business systems. - Strong understanding of modern IT architecture, identity and access management, endpoint management, cloud infrastructure, enterprise security, and business application ecosystems. - Experience building automation, self-service capabilities, and operational processes that reduce support burden and improve employee experience. - Demonstrated ability to balance strategic planning with technical execution. - Strong leadership experience managing and developing technical teams. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence leaders across the organization. - Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience. - Must be able to obtain a security clearance. Requirements - Experience supporting distributed and hybrid workforces across multiple geographies. - Experience operating within regulated environments such as government, aerospace, defense, or national security industries. - Familiarity with compliance frameworks including SOC 2, NIST, CMMC, or ISO 27001. - Experience implementing enterprise automation platforms and workflow orchestration tools. - Experience leading significant Microsoft migrations, consolidations, or modernization initiatives. - Relevant Microsoft, security, or cloud certifications. Benefits - Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. - We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. - Our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds. - Diversity includes race, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. - All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.

• Engage in relevant research and development (R&D) of AI systems, models, and advanced machine learning algorithms that augment physics-driven modeling and simulation systems • Explore and implement AI-powered simulation tooling in support of AI workflows through reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and hybrid modeling approaches • Collaborate with research, engineering, and product teams to build AI-powered solutions that meet mission-critical modeling and decision-support needs • Engage in and support the drafting and review of conference and journal articles and presentations, sharing advances with both internal stakeholders and the wider research community. • Contribute content to technical invention disclosures, including associated narrative, graphics, and engagements in support of patent development • Perform additional responsibilities (no more than 10% of duties) in support of the company’s technology and product development initiatives.

Role Description As an AI Research Scientist, you will join the AI and Innovation department within Slingshot’s Technology organization. You will contribute directly to Slingshot’s vision to accelerate space sustainability and create a safer, more connected world. You will participate in the identification, development, and integration of novel algorithms and models, leveraging diverse data streams and advanced intelligence engines, and the subsequent integration of those technologies into prototypes and broader AI systems across the Slingshot platform. - Engage in relevant research and development (R&D) of AI systems, models, and advanced machine learning algorithms that augment physics-driven modeling and simulation systems. - Explore and implement AI-powered simulation tooling in support of AI workflows through reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and hybrid modeling approaches. - Collaborate with research, engineering, and product teams to build AI-powered solutions that meet mission-critical modeling and decision-support needs. - Engage in and support the drafting and review of conference and journal articles and presentations, sharing advances with both internal stakeholders and the wider research community. - Contribute content to technical invention disclosures, including associated narrative, graphics, and engagements in support of patent development. - Perform additional responsibilities (no more than 10% of duties) in support of the company’s technology and product development initiatives. Qualifications - Active US Security Clearance (Secret Minimum, Top Secret Preferred). - Masters in related field + Minimum of 2 years' experience in similar role (or PhD with relevant research projects). - AI/ML expertise. - Demonstrable experience in the application of AI/ML methodologies including, but not limited to, deep learning, generative models (e.g. LLMs, diffusion models), agentic systems, reinforcement learning, computer vision, or other emerging areas of AI research. - Software development experience. - Familiarity with object-oriented paradigms and functional programming principles. - Expertise in at least one modern high-level programming language (e.g. Python, R, C++, Java). - Collaborative source code management and maintenance processes (e.g. Github, code reviews, CI/CD). - Ability to work within multi-disciplinary teams in a fast-paced, evolving operational environment that spans military, government, and industry partners. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Passion for Space and AI/ML applications. Requirements - Experience with fine-tuning LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and domain adaptation for scientific/engineering datasets using modern ML frameworks and model hubs. - Familiarity with Reinforcement Learning (RL) and multi-agent reinforcement learning to enable training agents that learn strategies in simulation and real-world contexts. - Practical understanding of neural networks, transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, and optimization methods to extend or fine-tune transformer-based models. - Experience building reusable internal tools (connectors, simulation frameworks, evaluation harnesses) to refine simulation-based datasets for AI agent training in support of research, data-driven insights/analytics, and model development. - Hands-on experience supporting the development and deployment of supervised and/or unsupervised learning models. - One or more peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, and/or presentations in a science or engineering discipline. - Demonstrable combined experience indicative of skillsets required to utilize APIs, microservices, and workflows that merge physics simulation engines with AI training pipelines. - Familiarity with common agentic protocols (MCP, A2A, etc.). - Practical working experience with physics-based simulation, and statistical methods (e.g. Monte Carlo methods, probabilistic modeling, and Bayesian methods). - Working knowledge of parallel computing, GPU acceleration, and performance optimization for simulations and training workloads. - Experience with space and astrodynamics is valuable but not required. Benefits - Salary Range: $120,000 - $170,000 + Equity and Benefits. - Classification: Full-time Exempt (computer professional exemption).

• Design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions across UI, API, integration, and end-to-end workflows. • Continuously expand automated test coverage using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium. • Partner closely with developers to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and ensure quality is built into every release. • Create and maintain test plans, test cases, and quality processes that support rapid product development. • Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to review requirements, acceptance criteria, and user stories to ensure clear, testable outcomes. • Validate front-end, back-end, and AI-enabled functionality across multiple products and platforms. • Identify, document, and track defects through resolution using established quality assurance methodologies. • Assess production readiness and validate release quality prior to deployment. • Develop and execute API, integration, and backend validation testing using modern testing frameworks and tools. • Verify data integrity, system interoperability, and reliability across connected services and external integrations. • Design and execute performance and scalability testing scenarios to evaluate system responsiveness and stability. • Troubleshoot issues related to APIs, databases, and distributed system interactions. • Support weekly production releases through testing coordination, validation, and stakeholder communication. • Deliver demonstrations of completed functionality and provide feedback to development teams. • Analyze quality trends and recommend improvements to testing strategies, tooling, and processes. • Help shape the future of quality engineering at Slingshot by introducing new tools, frameworks, and best practices.