Vehicle Integration Engineer II (Aerospace)

Location: Middle River, Maryland, United States; onsite work in office, technical, laboratory, and production environments.

Base salary: $95,200–$119,000 USD annually. Total compensation including equity: $129,000–$136,000 USD annually.

Company

An end-to-end aerospace company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical spaceflight subsystems, including the reusable Neutron launch vehicle.

What you will do

• Develop concepts of operations, tooling, ground support equipment, and processes for handling and integrating Neutron launch vehicle components and stages.
• Develop and execute procedures for integrating flight hardware and ground support equipment.
• Support first- and second-stage integration, propellant systems, avionics, and autonomous flight termination systems.
• Develop inspection, repair, assembly, maintenance, system checkout, and test procedures for initial and flown vehicles and components.
• Design tools, hardware, processing facilities, build flows, and test operations to improve vehicle integration efficiency.
• Coordinate priorities, planning documents, non-conformance actions, and daily execution with managers, engineers, technicians, and other departments.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering.
• At least 2 years of experience building and testing hardware associated with launch vehicles and their operating environments.
• Proficiency in authoring comprehensive work instructions and procedures for assembly, testing, and launch.
• Ability to work across mechanical, electrical, and fluid systems.
• For work in U.S. offices, eligibility under U.S. space technology export regulations is required, including qualifying U.S. citizenship, permanent residency, refugee or asylum status, or applicable government authorization.
• Ability to work in office and technical environments, move between buildings and laboratories, operate tools and equipment, and read technical documentation and drawings.

Nice to have

• Master of Science degree in aerospace, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with launch vehicle hardware and subsystems, including avionics, high-pressure gas, structures, electrical, and mechanical systems.
• Experience building and testing complex assemblies at system and subsystem levels.
• Experience applying project management principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment focused on hardware development, demanding missions, teamwork, and tight deadlines.
• Company stock, employee stock purchase program with a 15% discount, and equity as part of total compensation.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, flexible spending, dependent care, disability, and life insurance benefits.
• Three weeks of paid vacation, five sick days, eleven paid holidays, paid parental leave, and a 401(k) with company match.
• Free snacks and drinks onsite.