Jobs at Sierra Space

Lead multiple software engineering components or enterprise focus areas, set strategic/tactical plans, guide subordinate managers, drive technology adoption and organizational change, manage finances and schedules, engage executive stakeholders, and ensure alignment of engineering activities with business goals while supporting national-security missions.

Lead inventory and logistics strategy for aerospace missions: optimize inventory levels, streamline transportation and warehousing, manage suppliers, ensure compliance with export/government regulations, drive digital transformation and KPIs, and mentor cross-functional teams to maintain mission readiness.

The Talent Acquisition Partner III oversees staff augmentation hiring, manages vendor relationships, strategizes workforce acquisition, and ensures compliance with regulations while mentoring other team members.

The Senior Director of Enterprise Applications leads the transformation of business systems into an integrated enterprise architecture, focusing on SAP and MES solutions, optimizing operations, and ensuring compliance in aerospace.

Provide technical leadership for major aerospace programs: maintain technical baseline, oversee design/development/testing, resolve complex multidisciplinary technical issues, reduce technical risk, adjudicate configuration gaps, and build and execute program-level technical strategies to ensure mission success.

As a Structural Analysis Engineer II, you will design, analyze, and develop structural systems, applying technical principles under general supervision and collaborating with mechanical teams.

As a Test Engineer III, you will lead testing and validation of aerospace systems, managing requirements and conducting Verification and Validation (V&V) activities while mentoring junior engineers.

The Program Manager II leads program management with responsibility for cost, schedule, and performance, ensuring successful outcomes through comprehensive planning and execution across cross-functional teams.

The Technical Quality Assurance Inspector II conducts inspections of manufacturing goods, ensuring compliance with industry standards, documenting results, and communicating findings.

The Buyer III manages procurement for high-value purchases, leads contract negotiations, analyzes market data, and mentors junior buyers. They ensure compliance with procurement processes and maintain supplier relationships.

Lead and manage mission design and analysis engineers to define mission parameters, perform trajectory and performance analysis, integrate mission requirements with systems engineering, support trade studies, manage budgets/resources, mitigate technical risks, and drive digital engineering and process improvements across spacecraft and ground system designs.

Lead end-to-end spacecraft delivery including schedule, budget, and resources. Define and trace space segment requirements, author V&V plans, manage subsystem and payload integration, oversee AI&T and environmental testing, direct suppliers, mitigate technical risks, and serve as primary technical customer interface.

Perform independent structural design and analysis using hand calculations and Finite Element Analysis, own discrete technical packages as Responsible Engineer, mentor junior engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and communicate routinely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure structural integrity and project success.

Support mission planning, training, and real-time Dream Chaser flight operations; develop operations products (procedures, flight rules, timelines, telemetry displays), training materials, and integrate design inputs with operational concepts while working with multidisciplinary teams in a mission control environment.

Serve as the real-time systems engineer monitoring and commanding Dream Chaser thermal and environmental control systems during missions. Analyze telemetry, execute procedures via Epsilon3/InControl, troubleshoot anomalies, coordinate with Flight Control Team and Engineering Support, develop procedures and displays, and provide go/no-go recommendations while supporting simulations and pre-mission planning.

Lead mission design through modeling, simulation, and analysis to define mission parameters, derive requirements, and validate system and constellation performance. Oversee medium teams, develop and maintain mission-level models and tools, present results to stakeholders, and collaborate with subject-matter experts to guide spacecraft sizing, payload selection, and system-of-systems trade studies.

Lead process optimization, quality control, and maintenance initiatives for aerospace manufacturing. Implement validation, reliability-centered maintenance, and manufacturing/maintenance management software. Mentor junior staff and lead cross-functional projects to improve efficiency and reduce downtime.

Lead production planning process design and optimization in SAP S/4HANA, ensuring material availability and production efficiency through collaboration with supply chain teams and managing production execution and MES integration.

The Software Engineer III will design, develop, and test software for space systems, mentor engineers, and manage complex software systems.

The SAP MM Consultant supports materials management processes, focusing on inventory management, configuration, troubleshooting, and integration with other SAP modules while participating in incident resolution and user acceptance testing.