Space testing, flight software and defense engineering services provider
Aegis Aerospace is a Webster, TX space and defense contractor whose stack pairs heavy engineering simulation (ANSYS, Abaqus, COMSOL, STK, MATLAB/Simulink) with an Elastic security toolset and Deltek Costpoint for government contract accounting. Hiring is accelerating and engineering-dominated, centered on the MISSE flight facility, a space-testing-as-a-service business line and Orion flight software verification, with RMF compliance and vulnerability management as recurring security pressures.
Aegis Aerospace is a woman-owned, privately held space and technology company headquartered in Webster, Texas, founded in 1992. It came together by combining Alpha Space with MEI Technologies, and it delivers commercial space services, engineering and technology services, and related products. Customers are government agencies and commercial organizations in space and defense, with specialties spanning NASA and DoD support, modeling and simulation, wargaming, virtual reality and cybersecurity. The company employs 201–500 people and hires in the United States.
Aegis Aerospace uses Python, C++, React, Vue and GitLab for software, plus SolidWorks, NX, CATIA, ANSYS, Abaqus, COMSOL, MATLAB, Simulink and STK for engineering, and the Elastic Stack for security.
Job posts point to the MISSE flight facility, a space testing as a service line of business, payload integration under DoD Human-Rated Space Task Order 2, and Orion flight software verification for Artemis.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and weighted heavily toward engineering, mostly at senior and mid levels, with smaller openings in sales and security, all in the United States.
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