Spaceflight software, mission design and autonomy for cislunar missions
Advanced Space builds mission design, navigation and flight software for lunar and deep-space missions, pairing astrodynamics tools like FreeFlyer, STK and MATLAB with a modern ML stack (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn) and AWS Bedrock. Hiring is accelerating and overwhelmingly engineering, split between senior engineers and interns, while job posts point to secure cloud infrastructure for missions and internal AI product work.
Advanced Space is a privately held space company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, with 51–200 employees. It provides mission design, flight optimization and mission systems engineering, plus AI, machine learning and autonomy capabilities for spaceflight. Customers span commercial, civil, international and national security programs. The company owns and operates NASA's CAPSTONE mission and serves as prime contractor on AFRL's Oracle mission, with work covering ground and flight software for lunar missions.
Advanced Space uses C++, Python, Julia and MATLAB alongside FreeFlyer and STK, ML libraries like PyTorch and TensorFlow, and AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Job posts reference NASA's CAPSTONE mission, AFRL's Oracle mission, onboard spacecraft software, lunar ground and flight software, mission navigation, Kalman filter development and internal AI products.
Advanced Space is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, and hires in the United States, with engineering making up the bulk of open roles.
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