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Senior Engagement Engineer

AI summary of the role

This is a founding technical customer-facing role at a seed-stage AI software company that designs spacecraft hardware.

What you’ll do

  • Own technical delivery for named aerospace and defense accounts, from evaluation through deployment.
  • Run customer evaluations, scoping, and demonstrations; diagnose non-convergent designs.
  • Perform hands-on scripting, analysis, benchmarking, and validation against the models.
  • Translate customer needs into engineering requirements and push back on non-generalizable requests.

What you’ll bring

  • U.S. citizenship and active Secret clearance (Top Secret preferred).
  • Military or defense background (any branch).
  • Bachelor's in engineering or hard science (physics).
  • Hands-on depth in applied ML, numerical optimization, or physics-based modeling/simulation.

Technologies

machine learning · numerical optimization · physics-based modeling · simulation · spacecraft design · antenna design · propulsion · power systems · RF · benchmarking

About Sitreps

Veteran-focused career platform and recruiting firm helping military operators transition into defense tech, private equity, and other high-intensity business roles.

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