Torrance, CA; Washington D.C. On-site Employment

Northwood Space is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Define and advance technical scope across one or more layers of the infrastructure stack, guiding initiatives from initial concept to deployment and ongoing management.
  • Establish long-term technical vision for key domains by authoring design proposals, analyzing tradeoffs, and making decisions with lasting operational impact.
  • Serve as the highest level of technical support during incidents, resolving critical outages and leading reviews that result in robust, lasting improvements.
  • Elevate team capabilities through active participation in design and code reviews, as well as hands-on mentorship that fosters growth beyond feedback on deliverables.
  • Collaborate as a peer leader with security, compliance, product engineering, and ground operations teams, bridging infrastructure limitations with cross-functional requirements.
  • Detect recurring manual effort and neglected areas within systems, then initiate and drive cross-domain projects to eliminate inefficiencies.
  • Advocate for infrastructure perspectives in company-wide technical decisions and produce foundational documentation used by other teams.

Other

  • Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations during the hiring process should inform the company to receive appropriate support.
  • Due to U.S. space technology export controls, including ITAR, candidates must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or able to secure necessary authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
  • The company provides equal employment opportunities based on merit, qualifications, and performance, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or other protected characteristics.
About company
Northwood Space

Northwood is building a global ground network for the future of space communications.

Northwood is an end-to-end ground infrastructure provider – from initial concept through deployment to live data delivery. By vertically integrating the entire ground stack, we can collapse what used to take years into months, and what took months into days. Our vision is building towards a ground infrastructure layer that works like cloud computing, where global capacity and routing scales on demand without the usual procurement cycles, vendor coordination, or integration challenges.

We’re a team of engineers, operators, and builders — with experience across aerospace, defense, cloud infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing — committed to building resilient infrastructure for the next century of space operations.

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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category infrastructure
Posted 4 months ago