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Build Aalyria’s marketing function from scratch across positioning, technical content, events, demand generation, field support, brand, and PR. Develop credible messaging for commercial network operators and U.S. government customers, create pipeline-generating campaigns, support sales pursuits, manage marketing tools and budgets, and establish the company’s public technical presence.

Build and lead a centralized observability platform for satellite, ground-station, and distributed network systems. Responsibilities include scaling metrics, logging, and tracing infrastructure; defining SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; enabling application instrumentation; automating deployments with Terraform and ArgoCD; monitoring Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS environments; and developing incident response, alerting, and reliability practices. The role includes on-call responsibilities and requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Lead customer discovery and pre-sales engagements for Spacetime, Aalyria’s temporospatial software-defined networking platform. Design solution architectures, technical proposals, presentations, demonstrations, and proofs of concept. Guide customer pilots and technical validation, translate complex capabilities into business value, support business-case development, and provide technical recommendations. Collaborate with sales and product teams, influence the roadmap through market feedback, and create customer-facing technical content.

Own full-cycle recruiting for mid-level and senior software and hardware engineering roles. Partner with technical leaders, develop targeted sourcing strategies, assess candidates, manage interview processes, maintain recruiting pipelines, support UK hiring, and improve hiring processes. The role focuses on specialized talent in satellite communications, telecommunications, aerospace, defense, networking, and infrastructure-heavy engineering domains within a fast-growing company.

Own execution of a classified aerospace networking program, coordinating engineering, product, solutions, and government stakeholders. Translate mission requirements into engineering plans, resolve dependencies and technical tradeoffs, manage risks, oversee contract and financial reporting, and maintain compliance with classified information, CUI, ITAR, and EAR requirements. The role requires independent judgment, technical depth, influence without authority, and an active TS/SCI clearance.

Lead end-to-end commercial sales for aerospace communications: qualify opportunities, run technical discovery and demos, respond to RFPs, translate customer needs into solutions, influence product roadmap, and close complex B2B deals across defense, satellite, and 5G NTN verticals.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll build and manage observability platforms for satellite communications, define SLOs/SLIs, and collaborate on incident response and deployment automation.

Build high-fidelity wireless network models in Spacetime, develop Python or Go adapter layers, create Protobuf/JSON/gRPC data schemas, perform link-budget and propagation analyses, and support live customer networks as a tier-three escalation lead. Collaborate with product and software engineering teams to convert custom integrations into reusable features. The role requires software engineering fundamentals, physical-layer communications knowledge, system modeling experience, and at least three years of engineering experience.

Own end-to-end execution of software platform integration and customer deliverables. Coordinate engineering, product, design, and solutions teams; translate customer requirements into technical plans; manage stakeholder communications, risks, schedules, dependencies, cloud deployments, and T&M contract financial reporting. The role requires technical program management experience, software lifecycle knowledge, customer leadership, financial tracking, and eligibility for a U.S. security clearance.

The Mission Engineer positions involves system modeling, software integration, data modeling, link analysis, and operations triage of wireless communication systems.